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Yeah, I'm still working out minor little bugs here and there and it needs an alignment from where we pushed the steering rack out but it runs great so far.
The weather was nasty but we got a lot done today. New hood welded onto the fenders and most of the body work on it done as well. Hopefully I can get the rest of the body work on the hood finished tomorrow and at least get it in primer and on the car. I have good help, I can't take all of the credit.
accomplished my goal of getting primer on the hood. Test fit everything after I made the cut and it's pretty tight fitting so I'm happy with that. There are a few spots we still need to fix on the hood, mainly cracks that we missed before primering and a few small imperfections in the body work... all in all, I'm very pleased with how it turned out and I should be able to spray it red after work tomorrow or the next day and get it on the car finally.
yeah, I thought about that when I was doing it... Oddly enough it was the best way to keep the cut close to the engine and not have a gaping hole. Maybe god will keep it in mind some day.
I cleaned up all the scratches and some other minor stuff... I could have spent a lot more time on the hood making it perfect but its close enough for now and looks pretty **** good... Right when I was getting to apply the first coat of red it started to rain so I moved everything into the barn and sprayed it. I'm very happy with how it turned out and I can't wait to get it on the car.
I haven't gotten them printed up yet but I probably will here soon. I got a buddy out here that can do them hopefully. I think they will turn out pretty good hopefully.
well, there's a light at the end of the tunnel finally... Hood is on, though it flexed more than I apparently accounted for and caused a small crack on one side... Nothing crazy but I'll clean it all up at some point and weld the top some more, then respray it. I was kind of in a hurry to get paint on it to have a finished running and driving fun car for the warm weather. It still all looks really really good. Close but not finished yet.
Oh yeah, Almost forgot, I'm tossing the chrome locking lugs in the hood, that's why you see the holes behind the wheels and that will hold the back of the hood down, also I still have to put the trim moulding around the cut in the hood to clean it up some and give it more of a finished look.
I'm going to get it on the scales here soon... Waiting on my disc brake setup I ordered a few months ago, then I can get a front alignment and put my sticky tires on the car to see what she'll do.
After a 2 1/2 month delay my big brakes finally shipped yesterday... Long story. I was going to run at super chevy this weekend but since I don't have the upgraded stoppers, I think I'll hold off on that. Slowly adding trim pieces and various other things back to the car and also ordered a hard top. More to follow.
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