Yep, went to Florence Italy for 5 days, then 1 day and a half in Rome. Then spent 2 days in Zurich, Switzerland. Left on the 14th and got back on the 24th. Some foreign hotel Wifi systems really suck.

I stopped by the body shop this week but forgot my camera. Rollbar is in, gas tank was pulled and already came back from cleaning. Underside of the car has been cleaned. Next is the undercoating then on to the final stage. I was hoping things would have moved a little faster, as does the body shop owner. I'll probably drop by the body shop at the end of next week to see how things are going. Maybe we'll see some paint.

 

If you dont mind me asking, what did all the body shop work cost you? not any of the parts, just labor. i'd imagine it cost quite a bit!

 

I can safely say he is "probably" not going to answer you and even if he does he is not "probably" going to tell you the whole truth, in fact custom body work costs around 70 an hour and I can tell you without a doubt this car once done will have over 100 hours in it EASILY, unless he knows or has a very good relationship with this body shop his bill is really one of those "your not supposed to ask" type things, just enjoy the work and the result!


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yeah i figured as much. just thought id ask.

 

nice man cant wait for pics. also trust7 is that your dog in you avatar? we have a lil dauchsund so full of love.

 

Yeah, we have two mini long-hairs one is 4 one is 13, they are really cool dogs, they have their issues like every other dog but one of the coolest dog types I have owned, and I have owned probably 25 dog breeds, samoy,alaska, pit, rot, doby, spitz etc etc etc

 

i love dauchsuns that are just packed full of love and they are biuld like lil tanks.

so jucied more pics please im dyin to see this.

 

Moar!!

 

The body shop owner is giving me a bit of a break but its still a **** ton of $. He really likes the project and wants to see it finished almost as bad as I do. 100 hours easily is right. lol With the amount of custom work in this project and mods\alterations to some body parts the time involved is up there. Many parts of the new body parts on this car were changed in some way that makes them even more unique and some needed to be fixed as well. Like the RB spoiler. This ~18 year old spoiler was damaged during shipping to me. It showed up with a nice big crack running along the leading edge. That had to be fixed, then there was the problem of the mounting hardware had been torn out of the pedestals, then shaving the antenna hole in the spoiler and on the car to give it a more symmetrical appearance. Thats just the RB spoiler. The Tamon spoiler had some imperfections that needed to be fixed and the indentation for the Tamon sticker was shaved and another idea was applied to the spoiler(will be revealed later). Then theres the huge amounts of prepping that had to be done to the fenders and the list goes on.


I'm gonna try to stop by the shop today. I stopped by there on Monday cause some ****** broke into my jeep by shattering the passenger front window over the weekend and they got me a replacement glass asap. I didn't have my camera. However, I decided to have a few more tweaks made to the front bumper and lip after examining everything up close while it was up on a lift. So yeah, more delays. But the tweaks will make the front end look even better. I'll hopefully have an update on Sunday if not tonight.

 

did they take anything out of your jeep?
i hate thieves.

 

They stole my radar detector. It was parked on a well lit main street in Chicago, right outside my friends apartment building. They didn't touch my stereo or anything in the back or the GPS that was 1 foot away from the detector.

 

Check the new Kan thread in the midwest section

Maybe this time ? haha

 

Wow that's guna b nice wen its finished. Nice work.

 

He basically has no right to talk because he probably buys performance parts made from other companies and takes pride in the fact he can remove two bolts, replace said piece, and re torque the bolts. Since he's apparently such a badass, he should be able to fab up EVERY engine, suspension, body, and interior piece for his car AND refine his OWN oil to run in his car. Gotta love condescending hypocrites with nothing intelligent to say.

 

Ok! So there were a few things that I think needed to be tweaked on the front end. First was the lip. As provided the lip extends from one side of the car to the other, but it stops right at the front of the wheel arch.

Like this:



So the lip is being slightly extended to the end of the wheel arch:



Second was the front airdam & extra cutout above. The lower airdam had some notches and imperfections around the sides where the stock grille was cut out from it. Those areas were filled in to smooth out the area. The extra cutout above the airdam is also getting reworked. It is being rounded off to have lines and curves more like the lower airdam. I've also had them add an inner lip of 1 inch to it. The cutout for the front tow hook has also been added in this pic.

Unfinished pic:



Undercoating is done!!!






Seats finally showed up after some messed up delays!!!!!!!!



Since the undercoating is done, once the work on the bumper and lip are completed we're on to the final steps!

 

Jesus hurry the *** up quit making them change **** its never going to be perfect and the first time you scratch it your gonna be that much more pissed oh and if you waste this car with black paint juice you suck dicks. Or better known as black is well known in sociology as the most insecure color you can paint a car, so dont.

Go pearl white or 99 blue or something hot, dont paint it "lack of color" lol.


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the details he is doing is what is making this car....
keep it up man!!!
looking SCHWEET!!

 

Seats are beautiful bro.

 

bah those seats are **** who the *** wants "carbon fiber" on the back of their seats ?
:P

 

Hey juice now you know that 500r will have to discontinued and get something like a gt47 for those wide wheels...lol

looking good bro about the scratching....ahh when you get that first scratch it will **** you off so bad that you dont want to even look at the car after the next ones you will get used to it

put it like this all the hard work is been done now so in the future if you need a quick touch up it will be painless

 

going to look amazing man, keep it up

 

this thread needs some BS cleaned up from it- make it easier to browse.

have you fit the seats in the car yet?

 

YOU ******!!!! I ******* love Cobra seats, but I cant afford those yet. god damns you to hell! lol at least you didnt get the color I want.

 

any plans to flat panel the underneath of the car? front and or rear defusers would be icing on the cake =p

*dont mind the pic of the car that fell over, its just to reference the flat paneling underside of the Elise*

 

Love the little additions on the front, I secretly died inside lookign at the upper duct on the front cover where its simply cut out

Coming nice Juice. +1 for pruning the meaningless comments.