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Doesnt look like much, but I worked on the car a ton today, did a few more coats on the interior when the humidity permitted later in the day. Worked on the engine bay, but still have some more scrubbing/clean up to do before I can start using adhesive to add the heat shielding, and pretty much sqaured the short block up. Need to finish cleaning the motor mount arms, put the AC delete bracket and alternator on, and plug up the oil returns for the balance shafts. Anyway, photos!



OoooO!


Doing mockups with painters tape and printer paper, total PITA.


Both frame rail pieces taped in, like I said, I still have some cleaning before I actually use the adhesive backing to put them in.


A bunch of photos were snapped of me looking unhappy in the engine bay while mocking up the bell housing section.


Again, just taped up, which is why it's hanging in the tunnel.


Oil pickup on, and hardware finally found (I know Chris is gonna give me **** as the hardware isnt all perfectly clean)


Got the new cam tower caps and cleaned them up to a near polish, thanks Jim (tool)!



Things coming along, gotta clean up the other mount and they go on tomorrow.

 

Looking good Mike. The gold reminds me of the Lunar Lander.

 

Same stuff basically My dad made the same joke when he saw it.

 

very cool, I wish I had the time and money(or at least the lack of lazyness) to pull something like that off.

 

Update:



Started working on the dash today, which required carefully pulling up the edge of the alcantara that is normally tucked behind all the switches/cover pieces in the center of the dash.



Modifying the side vents, this is purely for asthetics as they are no longer functional.

*Gasp* I just did a mod for form over function... I'm such a ricer.


Lower cut off, next up was trimming, which didnt take all to long.


Finished cleaning the motor mounts, put all new O rings on the Air/Oil seperate and attached that (after cleaning all the grime off of it). Forgot to seal up the balance shaft oil return holes, I'll need to do that tomorrow if I have time.


New manual hatch release cable, this is so I can open the hatch without using the key (which will be deleted), as I already deleted the motor for it awhile back. The lever will be mounted on the cage, passangers side.




Starting to come together

 

i can't wait to see the finished product.... get off your *** and finish it already, lol.

 

Hey Mike, that's really looking up!!! Where did you find that hatch release lever? That's cool.

 

Jim, it's from summitt, It's going to take some custom work to Adapt to the hatch mech, but once it's done I'll post more details. It's a "generic" piece, but really nicely made, $55 iirc.

 

Ironic seeing that hatch release there. I was just looking myself this evening for how I could do a similar thing. I'm very interested to see how you do it.

 

Me too. We'll let Mike figure it all out, then steal his ideas...

 

Works for me

I'll probably do a seperate write up on that.

 

Lookin good my man, interior is going to be sweet- the long hours are paying off

 

Blinggggg

 

Was going to get the engine in, but remembered that I never finished the balance shaft delete. Ooops! Better now then a week from now with it in the car going oh $#@*



So some extremely light gauge aluminum was cut up and covered with JB... err Epoxy.... It'll do the job.


Clutch stuff waiting go on. Spec 5# flywheel showed up, undamaged this time


Changed the damn bearings on the clutch release, getting them in was easy, getting them out... major PITA.


Bling bling. Not just mocked up anymore, it's on the car.


Got my splitter back from Josh (lafengas), all reinforced with carbon where it normally falls aparts and splits open.

See:



Little overview of the current mess. Hopefully the engine will go back in tomorrow

 

Sweet, What is there to gain by removing the balance shafts?