What did you do to your car today?

[mach71351c]

Made some huge progress today. I got the mangled mess removed from above the passenger tail light along with the last bits of the tail light panel from the driver side, deconstructed the 'patch' I scored from the junkyard '72 Fastback, test fitted it and the tail light panel, and 'blasted the patch. Things went a lot faster when I started using the plasma cutter to burn through the spot welds - Hey, gonna plug weld the holes anyway, right?

Also got a shot of the sub-frame connectors, but the driver side picture turned out like crap.

Here's the mangled mess (for posterity sake):

And here's the bad stuff cut out of there after my favorite thing in the world - drilling out spot welds (yay...):

Test-fitting the patch before 'blasting - that sucker fits almost perfect:

And while we're at it - toss on the tail light panel... just for fun:

Here's the pic of one of the Global West sub-frame connectors welded in I mentioned from yesterday - fit like a glove and no clearance issues to speak of (except for the inside forward U-bolt mounts on the traction bars - they'll probably hit when the suspension cycles - haven't decided what to do about that yet). Still working on my welds... this wasn't the worst one, but it was only one of a few bad-looking welds... most of them turned out pretty nice. I actually am getting better!

Get out of the mans way. He's on a roll. Nice job Eric.

 

[droptop73]

Wow 2000 posts in this thread... COOL!

 

[OLE PONY]

Wow 2000 posts in this thread... COOL!

What'e even cooler is 98,618 views!!!

 

[73vertproject]

Wow 2000 posts in this thread... COOL!

What'e even cooler is 98,618 views!!!

No kidding! I remember when there were maybe 20 threads on the whole website. Now there's close to 6,000!

 

[marks73]

Parked a Toro beside it and tore it down! But at least I'm wrenching on an engine.

 

[downwardspiral]

made some progress sanding the passenger side to the metal.. need to touch it up with a finer pad on the DA when Im done with drivers side.. Im buying a compressor this week and ordering my paint q-code made me do it lol..

 

[droptop73]

Nice progress

 

[Mister 4x4]

made some progress sanding the passenger side to the metal.. need to touch it up with a finer pad on the DA when Im done with drivers side.. Im buying a compressor this week and ordering my paint q-code made me do it lol..

Awesome Job! I can't wait til one day when mine looks that good (seriously!).

 

[rolandmhall]

FINALLY finished the rear disk brake conversion....

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[73vertproject]

Nice work, Roland. Looks great!

 

[71_badmach]

That is a nice looking install... how difficult was the emergency brake conversion?

 

[Qcode351mach]

Finished up the door struture today ..Started fitting the lower skin graft..I'm so glad I made those templates before I cut anything..Going to be a simple matter to use them to place the lower part of the skin..

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[rolandmhall]

That is a nice looking install... how difficult was the emergency brake conversion?

Everything for the most part went pretty smoothly. I bought the kit from Summit. The only problem that I ran into was the spacers that came with the kit. I had to get some a bit wider, other than that, went pretty smoothly.

Here's the link to the kit I got:

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/SUM-BK1326-99901/

 

[Qcode351mach]

That is a nice looking install... how difficult was the emergency brake conversion?

Everything for the most part went pretty smoothly. I bought the kit from Summit. The only problem that I ran into was the spacers that came with the kit. I had to get some a bit wider, other than that, went pretty smoothly.

Here's the link to the kit I got:

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/SUM-BK1326-99901/

Looks good..I would take care of that battery cable while your up in there..

 

[71_badmach]

That is a nice looking install... how difficult was the emergency brake conversion?

Everything for the most part went pretty smoothly. I bought the kit from Summit. The only problem that I ran into was the spacers that came with the kit. I had to get some a bit wider, other than that, went pretty smoothly.

Here's the link to the kit I got:

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/SUM-BK1326-99901/

Thanks, I didn't know there was a ready made kit available!


Hey Q, you're still making it look easy! Beautiful job

 

[mach71351c]

Nice job Scott. You will have the door behind you in no time.

 

[Don65Stang]

Hey Q, you're still making it look easy! Beautiful job

Ditto!

 

[rolandmhall]

That is a nice looking install... how difficult was the emergency brake conversion?

Everything for the most part went pretty smoothly. I bought the kit from Summit. The only problem that I ran into was the spacers that came with the kit. I had to get some a bit wider, other than that, went pretty smoothly.

Here's the link to the kit I got:

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/SUM-BK1326-99901/

Looks good..I would take care of that battery cable while your up in there..

Yep. That's on my list also for Final Assembly. This is probably the toughtest part of the build, all of those little things that can easily get missed....... Thanks!

 

[73vertproject]

Hey Q, you're still making it look easy! Beautiful job

Ditto!

Yep, +2!

 

[luxstang]

I repaired the passenger seat and installed it, put in a new battery, fired it up, and took it for a spin. The first one actually for this year, as it was the first day that the weather allowed it.

The forecast for tomorrow says it's gonna suck again, so I guess I was lucky to drive it today.Hibernating season is not officially over yet.