Went to pop's house, decided i would wash/wax his car. Could not find the keys so i just hot wired it. You can see the side of the ignition hanging out.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtJDMzUKM9U

 

Looks like your Dad is a handy guy to have around.

 

Yes, but his grandmother is crazy. Haha

 

Its been a while since a update. Ive ran over so many bumps in the road. Ive been fighting cat **** for 6+ months. Cats **** on my car, **** eats into metal, metal rusts. Ive been sandblasting the same things over and over over again b/c of this. The cats are gone now so thats a huge weight off my shoulders. The underneith has been a disaster. Ive had so many problems with chemical reactions then stripping it back down and starting over. I believe the underneith is coming to an end finally and there will be pics posted asap.

 

As off about 10min ago, the underneith is complete!!. WOOOSAHHH. Haaaaa...What a loooonnnggggg adventure. During cure times i added up how much money i have invested into the underneith. It is a rough estimate but at the very very minimum $2,200. Pictures will be up soon. Next step is to get the rearend/subframe done. I think im going to make a powdercoating setup.....ya thats a greattt idea!!! How come i haventreally thought of this before!

Off top of my head:

-East wood powder gun
-2 electric ovens... 1 will prbably work fine actually. Modify it so the stove top burners are now mounted on the door. Leave the door open and box in the opening.
-Powder!

Ohhhh ya..scanning craiglist for cheap stoves. This is a good idea

 

Its a bit dusty but looks prudddy. Pictures do not do it justice at all.
3coats of chip guard
3coats of base
3coats of cleary

All The hard stuffs done finally!

 

keep up the good work! im planning on doing the same stuff.

 

I thought I was insane with my talon. This makes what I've done with my talon look like child's play.

 

Thank You sir! You might like the other projects . You know us clevelanders!

 

Love colt hatch swaps. I had one putting down ~ 425 on a 2.3 stroker. Ran 11s all day on my street tires.

 

subbed! looking good man, can't wait to see whats next

Edit: NICE, my 69th post haha

 

Thanks!

 

The last few weeks i have been working on the car non-stop! I will upload pictures tomo . I got the rear subframe sandblasted. I actually went threw the electrolysis rust removing phase first then hit all the nooks and crannys with the blaster. I got my gas tanke sumped and the Dual 044 setup mounted and lines ran. Few pics blasting.



Yesterday i worked on the Colt all day. Got the new Brake setup on and made it a roller again.




Should look like this

 

A few more pictures of how the bottom turned out



Up to this point on the underneith, everything pictured has been sandblasted, primed/painted/cleared. (With the exception of the ghetto rig shocks i made to hold the rear end up). The Gas tank is painted black w/ a hint of silver sparkle along with the gas tank straps. The rear subframe is painted black. I also painted the rear sway bar just for the heck of it. I will be changing it out for a upgrade later.

Re-constructed the Rear subframe to allow the gas line to go threw. The line is not throughly mounted, its still in mockup.

Dual Bosch 044's. 2 -8 to 1 -10. (please dont inform me of the pieces of tape stuck everywere)



Sorta like a metalic gunmetal color. I personally love the color.

 

Now onto the front subframe ect.. I decided to do the "steering mod". I dont have ps anymore so i figured i would clean the rack up. I cut everything off of it, welded a few holes **** so far. I will attack the rest of the holes, sand blast it, bondo it up so everything looks symetrical.

 

Update:



You can see some of the faint pits that i couldnt get out. I did not want to take any more material off the arm


Whoever used the control arms as jacking spots. I could not take any more deep gouges out. Is what it Is.


Next:
Blast front subframe and all the brackets. Get them all in color. Install my Fuel FIlter (need mount). Send engine ***. to Carlos Lopez to get balanced. Order EXH. manifold tubing & flanges. Start grinding on the brakes Not going to be fun.

Tomo ill be picking up some "crystal clear". a product that comes in a aersol can. It is basically a clear but for polished items. Makes the aluminum keeps its shine, protects it.

 

damn....and i thought i was cool powder coating my lcas......
very cool man, keep up the restoration, cant wait to see it done!

Lloyd

 

Yeah, I thought my media blasted and clear coated LCAs looked good, but those are nice. I thought of doing a light polish on mine, but my friend talked me out of it. Whatever gets done to them, it is nice to see some of us go to those sort of lengths to improve the details.

Great work!

 

They were media blasted, sanded with 360-400-600-800-1000, then polished. All the black is the compound from the polishing wheel. I have since took a rag and got some compound out. The other control arm is going to turn out much nicer . Has less gouges and i took more scratches out right from the beginning.

My goal is to find out if DGRR along with many other contests is rigged LMAO, jk jk i kid.

 

[B]Both done.B]

In and almost started since this photo was taken

Dual Ballbearing PT67 that is nearly new. Picked up off a very close friends car for a deal i couldnt pass up

 

Nice work man,

Your fuel system gave me some idea's to think about.

First i was thinking about getting the fuel hose from stock location to inside the car, to later add a swirl pot. But totaly forgot we have a steel fuel tank....

So i am a bit curious about what u did on the inside of the tank. I could imagine that if u do some work on the inside, u dont need a swirl pot at all.

What kind of fuel hose did u use (an06?) ?
What kind of filters are you going to use (10micron?)

And then dual hose all the way to the front and one back for return?

let me know,

thanks

 

jeez bud, you don't mess around do ya?

very nice ground-up build man, looking forward to seeing the final stages

-sean

 

Now, the issues that i have not tackeld that have arose:
- I probably dont need both pumps all the time. So either put a check valve on one of the pumps so when it is not in use gas cannot go backwards threw it, or just say f-it and run them both all the time as ill have a big alternator.

- Ill be running either 6 ID 2000's or 2 ID 1000's and 4 ID 2000's, i have not made up my mind yet. Anyhow, there has to be 3 Gas lines coming out of 1 -10 . The solution is getting a FEMALE Y that has 1 in and 3 out.

 

Thank you sir!