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I realized my build is spread out over 15 threads so....here it all is.

 

I don't have any before pictures of my car before I did my practice hood, these are the first pictures I took of it. I found it in Long Beach and it had sat for a year not running because the owner was an idiot and didn't put the spark plug and injector wires back in the right place. Got it for $500, running with a cracked block, transmission that felt like it was crushing rocks, a diff that moaned like a ********** and struts that bounced like the John on the **********.

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Started working on my side exhaust. This is when I started my side exhaust, before I cut the hole in the floor. I should have cut the hole first but hey, you live and learn

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Got my carbon fiber Roush Racing wing...so much fab work, not fun...

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The wing is too narrow...fab work here I come

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Fresh rebuilt block...polished some parts, painted others.

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Pulled the old engine and painted the engine bay

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Engine in...turns out the timing was off a tooth but this is how it sounds with just a downpipe.

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Started fab work on my second hood

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More pictures tomorrow...tired

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Started to hate the heat shield I made, it rattled and really didn't hold any heat in at all. So this is the fab of the new one.

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the flat piece bent...

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made a piece to enclose the side, you can see the old heat shield next to the new one...made the new one out of galvanized steel, it doesn't weld pretty but it won't rust like the last one...

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Made a panel to keep the outside...outside

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Finished product....

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Bumper time...I have no idea why I made this so clean...but it is.

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My air dam was cracked all to hell... I drilled holes on both sides of the crack and directly on the ends of the cracks to prevent further cracking then slathered in some of the toughest epoxy you can find to hold it, pushed it through the holes to make it clamp the pieces together

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Sanded it down with a little filler and it's beautiful and tough

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I had painted the underside of my hood before but it was a little too wavy for me so I redid it....while I was under there I was like what the hell, I'm painting underneaths of stuff so I did the header and head light covers

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I wet sanded the hood but it wasn't happy with the center portion so it gets reprimed, soon to be re sanded

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This is how my car sits right now, I am wet sanding the fender and the door. It's smooth as can be...it's going to look crazy when it's done

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My girlfriend convinced me to paint the whole car black first then do the red on the front...I was going to paint the front red first then paint the back of the car, but after giving her suggestion some thought, it is easier to see flaws in black than it is in red. So in pursuit of the best paint job I can do the whole thing will be black, except the hood and front bumper, I'm not going to reprep those.

Anywho....I lightly blocked my 1/4s and found waviness. It's block and prime time...

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  • 2 weeks later...

@tankbob, they're 6x9s, they sound alright on there....looking back on that I would have rather had an uncut parcel cover...

@89BananaQuest, all of the above...heat, vibration and noise, it's way better with the new heat shield and as far as vibration and noise it very much a sports car feel...lol

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Blocked and wetsanded both quarters, it is absolutely sick how straight they came out.

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Spent an hour and a half with a heat gun melting the plastic, making it flat then cooling it. A royal PITA....but it's really straight and will be worthy of black paint.

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