This thing is simply jaw dropping!
That first video gave me cold chills... and I knew this was not going to happen, but it just had that camera angel and vibe that it was going to....
you're half-way out the garage, she's in her glory bathing in the sun, solar flares are being picked up on the lens, then BAM! fuckin' t-boned by an on coming car Office Space style.... I was just sitting there thinkin' "oh shit, oh shit, oh shit" with this huge knot in my stomach.... phew... thank goodness it didn't happen... you've worked hard on this beauty!
Looks sweet! Plus you have HUD, which brings you up a knotch in my book!
I love the HUD on the 'vette. It's trippy the first time you see it, cause the numbers are just floating out in front of you; the look to be just to the right of the driver's side headlight. Now I never even look at my gauges. :poly124:
Well, was gonna post some stuff about a few quick bits o' wrenching on the 'cuda, but seeing as the powers that be have taken a "this is not your blog" attitude, I'll pass.
If the powers that be want to move this to the P&P section to keep it alive, I'll go with that. PM me if that's gonna be the direction that's taken.
I personally think you should keep posting in this thread, I dont see why it should be moved either it predates any change in policy and has numerous responses from the community. Besides I think the whole this is not your blog thing relates to something else.
I'd say this rates higher on the interest scale that people posting shit like "Why are you sad" or this
Keep it up, have been watching a least a couple of years now, am sure there are many more lurkers to this thread who'd be sad it wasn't updated because of a rule brought in for serial spammers.
Besides, I think we all know what the real meaning of that 'blog' reference was. It's to stop the "I'm taking a shit" type of non-sense posts. This thread at least has some interesting content.
Weekend consisted of a quick bit of wrenching under the hood. We picked up a blacked out alternator a while back so I got around to putting that in (pics sometime soon). We came to the conclusion that instead of making our own, we should order a trunk relocation kit for the battery, so that and a rebuilt power steering unit will be ordered on Monday. Nothing too major, what with all the other projects going on around the house. Need to fire it up again sometime soon as it hasn't run in a few months. :shifty: :poly124:
Just saw the video.. crazy seeing this finally come together. After watching the progress for so long, the first thing I thought when I saw it driving was. "Oh god, please don't wreck."
Lift itself was bought for $2200. We cut the holes in the concrete with a rented concrete cutter. I welded up a pretty crazy wire mesh for the concrete using rebar bought at Home Depot, since the bolts are welded to that framework. We rented a concrete mixer trailer and filled the holes back in, then lifted the two legs up by hand and bolted them down. All in all, it probably came out to around $3000 on the high side, with the cost of the lift itself and the rebar falling on me (along with a MIG welding tank and consumables).
We're talking about building a garage around it since it really shouldn't be outdoors, and adding a single car garage onto that, where I'll likely put in a four post drive-on lift for vehicle storage. Kinda irked we don't have anywhere on the property that I could use for storage, local shop owner I know sold a four post lift recently for about $1500.
Just a quick update, rebuilt power steering unit and a battery relocation kit showed up,may get started on installing the kit this weekend. The power steering will likely be done by a local shop since it's a royal pain in the ass to work on.
Also, I'm loving my Droid, found an FTP app for it so I can upload photos to my web site on the go
Got the main wire run for the trunk mounted battery, and got a bunch sorted out with that whole setup. I'll upload picts once I've got my network storage issue sorted out.
We're taking the fiberglass hood, AAR wing, original trunk lid, and a rear valence to Trent's new body shop today, followed by going to the GoodGuy's hot rod show. If past experience is anything to go off, Trent should have some sweet rides in his shop. I'll get some images up this weekend, as I can now get some shots of the trunk battery cable installation as well.
Just to hold you guys over til I get my $#!+ sorted out and get some new photos online, I give you an example of why I love the hot rod and muscle car culture..
Spotted at the Good Guys show yesterday in the for sale area (for a pretty good price), a dragster Pinto.
Spotted at the Good Guys show yesterday in the for sale area (for a pretty good price), a dragster Pinto.
lol, nice! My coworker has a Gremlin 1/4 mile runner. I don't know what kinds of times he pulls, but it's a beast. I may see if I can find where I put a photo of it, and throw it up in here.
If you lived in my area, he could probably hook you up on the hood too He makes them for many of the racers in the area, because they usually have special requirements for their engines. He made the whole front clip of that Gremlin out of fiberglass.
All righty, thanks for being patient with me the past few weeks, now that I've got our server issues (mostly) sorted out, I can get some photos safely stored and uploaded.
I'll start with the alternator...
First... blah-y oldness..
And noooow, shiny new-ness!
Summit Racing parts supplier FTW. :thumbup:
On to the latest 'big project'... the trunk mounted battery setup...
We originally were going to do just the battery box bolted to the trunk, but it didn't come with any cables or other hardware (not even bolt holes). Drilling bolt holes kind of defeated the purpose of the box, which is to keep the trunk from getting fubar'd by leaking battery nastiness (look at a battery tray in any old car and you'll know what I'm talking about). So I combined the trunk relocation kit with the box and viola~!
It's grounded to the body right by the box, and the + cable's.. well, I'll show you...
The cable's held in place by the same clips that hold the wiring to the body, it then follows along the same protected channel the wiring does down the driver side of the car.
(just to show the route I'm taking...)
Once it gets to the front of the car, it's run up and around the other hardware, clipped in place but loops attached to the foot-operated washer fluid pump (if you want to smell a noxious smell, take a whiff of the air that comes out of that thing! :poly142: )
Then, it goes through a grommet in a hole that was drilled into the firewall..
... and finally, is attached on the engine-side of the firewall to the kill-switch's top post.
Next up, I've got to re-route the starter and other wiring that went to the distribution block, originally located up by where the battery was (behind the driver's side headlight). Also, I've got to move the custom radiator overflow box up so it's on level with the radiator.
Decision was made after my efforts this past weekend to get the trunk mounted battery setup finished; dad and I were talking about about how the column's pretty scratched and dirty in the engine bay, and even with a fresh coat of paint it doesn't look that great inside. The tilt's going to come in handy since someone of my height has a hard time getting in and out of the driver's seat, and we'll be looking into a slightly smaller wheel.
Magnum Force's been on shows like Wrecks to Riches and Monster Garage to do custom front end installs; I'd forgotten that they're local (like a mile or two from work) until I was looking up distributors for Flaming River.
Ordered the column, ended up getting an Ididit brand instead (better price, better product), actually ended up being cheaper than the Flaming River setup, should arrive within a few days. We'll be keeping the stock steering wheel since the purpose of this purchase was to have it tilt up out of the way.
Went forward with removing the headers and steering gear today (removed the steering column earlier in the week). Almost got the driver side header and the steering gear out, but the damn pitman arm wouldn't come off, so now I've got to pick up a pitman arm removal tool tomorrow and get cracking.
I'm actually somewhat surprised I didn't already have one, especially since I swapped out manual steering to power steering on my sister's Bronco over winter break...
I tried kludging something together from one of the other pullers we have, but it just wasn't big enough to fit around either end of the pitman arm. No matter, I'll get it sorted out tomorrow, I'm definitely beat from today, not quite as much spring in my step as when I started on this car. :poly136:
Well, after a weekend of wrenching, cursing, and busted knuckles, the old power steering unit and the headers are out of the car. The headers, the new power steering gear, and a slab of metal that'll be used for a info placard at shows are off to the powdercoaters tomorrow morning. I've been searching high and low throughout the garage and out back to find the damn hardware for the AAR wing, but haven't come across them, and they're supposed to get coated as well. I have a suspicion they ended up with the wing at the body shop, which means I may have to make a quick trip down to Hollister some time this week.
Just got off the phone with the instrument repair company, apparently we lucked out big time. The voltage regulator on the voltage readout in the instrument cluster fried, which is apparently not an uncommon thing. The problem is, though, that the rest of the cluster is powered off of that same readout, and is a 6v setup instead of a 12v, so normally when that regulator goes, it takes out the rest of the cluster with it. Apparently, by some divine fortune, only the regulator went out and the rest of the cluster is fine. We're having the repair company put on a solid state regulator (one they've never had a return issue with) instead of a cheap-from-China repro, which they've had numerous recall issues with. They're also repairing the speedometer free of charge as they can't determine whether it was shipping or our speedo wire which caused the damage.
'Nother update for you folks. Headers are back and re-coated, and I'm picking up the new power steering gear from the powdercoating shop tomorrow. I was supposed to pick it up over the weekend, and my timing was uncanny; the guys working over the weekend were literally about to walk it into the oven to cook on the paint, which is what they did with the previous one which lead to the seals going out. I ran in and stopped them, and all being well the paint sure be cured by tomorrow.
In between all the other things I've got going on, I've been working on reorganizing a lot of the wiring in the engine bay to get it out of sight. This means a good bit of removing the wrappings and re-wrapping them in ways that work better towards this end.
Also, while my dad and I were pondering over the engine bay Saturday night, I started going off about an idea to get a lot of things out of sight... this was the result of that idea (so far):
What that cardboard is covering is a gap between the front fender and the radiator support framework. I'm going to get a sheet of metal cut to size, we'll powdercoat it black, and mount it in that space. The hood spring and latch that are currently there will be gone soon as the fiberglass hood that's being fixed up now wont be using those (hoodpins instead). In that space I'm going to hide the horns and the controls for the dual electric fans.
One of the other quick things done this weekend was to mask and paint the windshield washer fluid reservoir black, so that it blends in. I masked off a strip so you can still tell how full it is.
Also, our ididit steering column arrived during the week, so I got that mostly together and ready to go in once the headers and new steering gear are installed.
Gonna be a hectic next few days, as there's a handful of things I want to get done or started on this week, and we're heading to Hawaii on Thursday~.
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That first video gave me cold chills... and I knew this was not going to happen, but it just had that camera angel and vibe that it was going to....
you're half-way out the garage, she's in her glory bathing in the sun, solar flares are being picked up on the lens, then BAM! fuckin' t-boned by an on coming car Office Space style.... I was just sitting there thinkin' "oh shit, oh shit, oh shit" with this huge knot in my stomach.... phew... thank goodness it didn't happen... you've worked hard on this beauty!
The '63 mph' is my Corvette's heads-up display on the windshield.
Hey, it's not as bad as what some of the drivers around here do. :poly142:
At the very least, I was paying attention to the road!
Sounds great too (even with the horrible youtube compression)!
Yah, if you go the direct pages, it should have an "HD" option for each of the vids.
I love the HUD on the 'vette. It's trippy the first time you see it, cause the numbers are just floating out in front of you; the look to be just to the right of the driver's side headlight. Now I never even look at my gauges. :poly124:
If the powers that be want to move this to the P&P section to keep it alive, I'll go with that. PM me if that's gonna be the direction that's taken.
Keep it up, have been watching a least a couple of years now, am sure there are many more lurkers to this thread who'd be sad it wasn't updated because of a rule brought in for serial spammers.
And feck the "this is not your blog" rule on this one, this is inspirational..
Need moar!
Needs more kickass video though
Weekend consisted of a quick bit of wrenching under the hood. We picked up a blacked out alternator a while back so I got around to putting that in (pics sometime soon). We came to the conclusion that instead of making our own, we should order a trunk relocation kit for the battery, so that and a rebuilt power steering unit will be ordered on Monday. Nothing too major, what with all the other projects going on around the house. Need to fire it up again sometime soon as it hasn't run in a few months. :shifty: :poly124:
So yeah.. drive safe.
Epic achievement you're doing here man, must be a great experience making a car from (almost) ground up with good old pop!
Grats on getting this on the road!
We're talking about building a garage around it since it really shouldn't be outdoors, and adding a single car garage onto that, where I'll likely put in a four post drive-on lift for vehicle storage. Kinda irked we don't have anywhere on the property that I could use for storage, local shop owner I know sold a four post lift recently for about $1500.
Also, I'm loving my Droid, found an FTP app for it so I can upload photos to my web site on the go
Spotted at the Good Guys show yesterday in the for sale area (for a pretty good price), a dragster Pinto.
lol, nice! My coworker has a Gremlin 1/4 mile runner. I don't know what kinds of times he pulls, but it's a beast. I may see if I can find where I put a photo of it, and throw it up in here.
Update (Found one):
I'll start with the alternator...
First... blah-y oldness..
And noooow, shiny new-ness!
Summit Racing parts supplier FTW. :thumbup:
On to the latest 'big project'... the trunk mounted battery setup...
We originally were going to do just the battery box bolted to the trunk, but it didn't come with any cables or other hardware (not even bolt holes). Drilling bolt holes kind of defeated the purpose of the box, which is to keep the trunk from getting fubar'd by leaking battery nastiness (look at a battery tray in any old car and you'll know what I'm talking about). So I combined the trunk relocation kit with the box and viola~!
It's grounded to the body right by the box, and the + cable's.. well, I'll show you...
The cable's held in place by the same clips that hold the wiring to the body, it then follows along the same protected channel the wiring does down the driver side of the car.
(just to show the route I'm taking...)
Once it gets to the front of the car, it's run up and around the other hardware, clipped in place but loops attached to the foot-operated washer fluid pump (if you want to smell a noxious smell, take a whiff of the air that comes out of that thing! :poly142: )
Then, it goes through a grommet in a hole that was drilled into the firewall..
... and finally, is attached on the engine-side of the firewall to the kill-switch's top post.
Next up, I've got to re-route the starter and other wiring that went to the distribution block, originally located up by where the battery was (behind the driver's side headlight). Also, I've got to move the custom radiator overflow box up so it's on level with the radiator.
Decision was made after my efforts this past weekend to get the trunk mounted battery setup finished; dad and I were talking about about how the column's pretty scratched and dirty in the engine bay, and even with a fresh coat of paint it doesn't look that great inside. The tilt's going to come in handy since someone of my height has a hard time getting in and out of the driver's seat, and we'll be looking into a slightly smaller wheel.
Magnum Force's been on shows like Wrecks to Riches and Monster Garage to do custom front end installs; I'd forgotten that they're local (like a mile or two from work) until I was looking up distributors for Flaming River.
I'm actually somewhat surprised I didn't already have one, especially since I swapped out manual steering to power steering on my sister's Bronco over winter break...
In between all the other things I've got going on, I've been working on reorganizing a lot of the wiring in the engine bay to get it out of sight. This means a good bit of removing the wrappings and re-wrapping them in ways that work better towards this end.
Also, while my dad and I were pondering over the engine bay Saturday night, I started going off about an idea to get a lot of things out of sight... this was the result of that idea (so far):
What that cardboard is covering is a gap between the front fender and the radiator support framework. I'm going to get a sheet of metal cut to size, we'll powdercoat it black, and mount it in that space. The hood spring and latch that are currently there will be gone soon as the fiberglass hood that's being fixed up now wont be using those (hoodpins instead). In that space I'm going to hide the horns and the controls for the dual electric fans.
One of the other quick things done this weekend was to mask and paint the windshield washer fluid reservoir black, so that it blends in. I masked off a strip so you can still tell how full it is.
Also, our ididit steering column arrived during the week, so I got that mostly together and ready to go in once the headers and new steering gear are installed.
Gonna be a hectic next few days, as there's a handful of things I want to get done or started on this week, and we're heading to Hawaii on Thursday~.
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