Congrats on the car man! Was this the one in Aurora on the chicago area craigslist?

 

yes it was

 

LOL. Funny story about that car. I had an arrangement with the guy on price and date/time i was going it pick it up. I already had a flight and everything set in motion then the guy sent me a text message a few days before I was scheduled to arrive saying "sorry it sold"! Good find you you though. I found another one that same day and drove straight to pick it up.

 

Few more things done tonight. If you notice the earlier pics Im missing the center AC vent.. yea im not paying $85 for a new piece so fiberglass we go! Itll serve the purpose of a LED or two for the meth tank warning lights. No thats not me in the picture, thatd be my fiberglass guy.. oh ya, I have a guy for that. I replaced the rear speakers with pioneer 6x8s as well.



Back end interior is all in except the hatch carpet (have to swap fuel pumps first). Side panels I just cleaned up but the bins got the plastidip treatment. Looks great!





More this weekend with the center panel piece and my gauges should show up by then. I needed to put 1 more coat on one of the bin covers so thats why they arent on in this pic. Ill need to find a battery to put in the passenger bin since thats where I ran my relocation wires to.

 

Funny... that same guy is also my plasma cutting, metal fabrication, paint repairing, and metal welding general cool dude guy too. I think they call him "ole man Hinze....."

 

Where can I find this guy? lol, I need someone to weld a wideband bung onto the downpipe.

 

Well my birthday is over so its back to the grind. Although I have a problem now..
This is the inside of my fuel tank:


This is my pump hangar:


Looks like Im in the market for a new pump hangar and tank

Finished up the pettit column guage holder with epoxy. Its nice and snug now! It just needs primer and paint and ready to go back in.


Rubber mounted on the old school borbets 225/45/18 on the fronts currently, couldnt beat $50 for both of them:



3 holder pod mounted, wiring ran to junction block. Im a tad leary about running 4 gauges illumination off of the switch so I may throw a relay in there since its easy enough to access.


Thats it for now. Next batch of things to do is put the cluster back in, mount the center console, remove the steering rack and do a proper de-power.

 

Good to see work being done! I'm putting in a CJ assembly if you want my stock one? Just keep the fuel level sensor to swap over.

 

Im going to ohm out my sending unit and see if its any good. The guys at CJ are trying to talk me into putting their dual pump hanger in my car... I dont wanna run that much fuel line! lol

 

Steering column cover with some paint:



Took off the rear tires. Quite a bit of rust. May take it apart and clean it all up:


Interior going back together (AC conrols/radio surround, center console). The reason most of these parts look dirty again is they have a bit of condensation on them. Chicago hit 65 degrees the other day while the garage was still chilly so it got a tad damp.


Cluster is back together, few more items behind it and it can go back in. E-V-E-R-Y screw point behind the top cover was broken and needed repair. Some dowel, time, dremel and gorilla glue and she mounts solid again.


Heres the plan for that rusted pump hangar, electrolytic cleaning. Seems to be working so far. Ill run it over night and see if it gets to a satisfactory place for me. I can already tell the rust is coming off.

 

looking good... you really saved this car... my friend just bought a similar project that we get to put back together from poor choices on the PO part..



do you mind elaborating or explaining in further detail how you fixed them...

when you mention dowl my first thought goes to wooden dowl, I'm assuming that is incorrect....


Thanks


J.

 

Oh nice! She a beauty dude! Are u keeping the black color?

 

I used to work for a plastics company (sheet, dowel, pipe etc) so I have access to stuff most people dont. I cut the broken ones down to where they are straight (instead of some goofy broken angle). cut an appropriate length of dowel, drilled a hole in it, then used a plastic welder to attach the dowel to the place i cut the broken dowel down. add some gorilla glue for good measure and voila, finished. i unfortunately didnt take any pics of the process since most people wont be able to do it. All plastic dowel. 8mm i think it was

staying black. some of the interior pieces are already painted black (no idea the color code) so ive been updating some other pieces black as well (the pettit steering wheel gauge holder).

 

Heres a couple new goodies. 150a breaker, 18" power cable, some 2 prong and 4 prong connectors (i could only order them in quantaties of 30 so if anyone needs some let me know!) and 100' of 3/4" split loom tubing to redo a single turbo harness

 

Ok...I've read the thread now.

 

Another local guy. Nice to see a thread about your build. Keep it going. I'll be starting a thread soon

 

Ya. I was at brandons shop today dropping off 2 housings that arent junk for him and helping him plan his attack prior to steve getting up here. Its getting harder and harder to keep his head on straight. LOL. So that would make me the "Bill" he refers to when the name comes up

 

Got it! Did you see my toy in the corner? Keep it hush hush

 

I thought you two knew each other.

 

Is this the same Bill that use to have a red FC?

 

Yep

 

Oh man the red one. Looked good but nothing but rust under it.

 

Goodluck with your project. Hope it turns out like you planned. What are you gonna do next?

 

Finish interior. Finish repairing the gas tank. Put the engine in.

 

Congrats on the purchase Bill! Looks like a ton of work, but I'm confident you'll get the car sorted .

I'll have to see how you refurbished those brittle plastic tabs on the gauge face surround, since i'm sure all of us would want to fix that.