My Project....

[Dumbass17]

sorry to hear about the job but that's wicked you have all this steady time to smash out this car. can't wait!

[ExtraSlow]

I've heard of severance benefits of that type, although I think they aren't the norm. Something like that is more common (I think) after a wrongful dismissal type situation.

Anyway, use that time to build the car AND look for a new job with a start date 11 months in the future. Lay some groundwork in your network in the first few months.

Looking forward to lots of updates on the build.

[tanderson1]

Took a couple days to get my life back in order, went for an interview, have another next week. While sitting at home for a year and getting paid sounds amazing it my be increasingly hard to get a job with that long of a gap in my resume. I still haven't decided but I may go back to work if an opportunity presents itself.

Back to the car....


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I received the LCD screen that i would like to use for the dash, I still have to test it out and find an LVDS adapter to drive it via HDMI. I plan to take the screen out of this plastic housing and build it into the gauge cluster. I still have to make sure that the screen is high enough and that i can draw detailed gauges within its resolution.


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A concrete company came on Tuesday to fix a void under my garage floor, they helped me carry the GTM frame out to the lawn and they started drilling 17 3" holes in the floor in a grid pattern. Once drilled we could see that the problem was even worse toward the back of the garage where there was almost a solid 12" of air under the 2" slab. They then used a high pressure pump to push concrete into the holes. You can even start to see water and concrete start to squish up through the cracks in the floor. The whole operation took 2 hours and cost $1800.



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All of the parts are now back from the powder coaters and ready to be riveted to the car. They look amazing. I ended up going with the semi-gloss black, total cost ended up being $600

[thrasher22]

$600 seems like a great price for all that, where did you get your powder coating done?

Sick project, I'm sure it will be a ton of work, but will be an amazing finished product.

[tanderson1]

Originally posted by thrasher22
$600 seems like a great price for all that, where did you get your powder coating done?

Sick project, I'm sure it will be a ton of work, but will be an amazing finished product.

done hear in town

JIT Powder Coaters
http://www.jitpowdercoaters.com/

86 pieces completed in 4 days... cant say enough good things about them, they were great. I would recommend them!

[AndyL]

Well... Now you have a garage slab No minimum code for you!

Did they determine why there was soo much air under? Water running it away somewhere?

And damn that's going to be a sweet build!

[tanderson1]

So i was able to spend a solid 8-10 hours on the car today, Some of those hours were spend running around town for parts... a great progress day regardless

Started by riveting and siliconing the aluminum around the suspension parts

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Took a brake from that for a while and tried to fit the shock mount to the lower A arm, it hit the side of the A-arm and wouldn't mount all the way in. I used a cutoff wheel to take off 1/16th or so of an inch... I had to repeat this for the other side as well.

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These are the spacers that attach to the bolt that holds the strut. The spacers are not large enough to fit over the bolt, I will need to drill the spacers out a little larger.

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These bolts still need to be torqued to spec but all 4 suspension assemblies are now mounted.

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[tanderson1]

Week two of waiting on some key parts to arrive like the steering rack and shock hats.

According to the shipping information the core parts should be here tomorrow, with a second shipment arriving on Thursday.

this car is fairly small, think lotus size, because of the size the order in which parts are mounted is important, I have to fit the steering rack in next, so i can figure out where to mount the battery, I then need to figure out how the steering will mount around the battery.

My hope is that the mounting the steering first wont get in the way of the peddle assemblies that i plan to mount next....

If all goes to plan it should be rolling and steering by next week.... then next week can be brake lines and E-Brake install. Followed by the aircond Vintage Air system and then the engine/trans/cooling system/fuel system/clutch/shifter/ecu... then maybe a few sideways trip around the block before the body gets fitted on.

[tanderson1]

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Shocks are now assembled and the front 2 are now mounted. I only had about 45 minutes yesterday so i couldn't get it all 4 installed.

I also installed the steering rack.

[carson blocks]

Originally posted by tanderson1

I don't have much left, what i do have i may need during the build. What are you looking for?

PM'ed you. I need door panels and that little cover piece to the left of the key.

[tanderson1]

Originally posted by carson blocks


PM'ed you. I need door panels and that little cover piece to the left of the key.

PM sent.


Work asked me not to come back when they found out the company that i plan on going to.... so i had a whole day today. I used most of the time to get caught up, trip to the dump, return some broken stuff, register my motorcycle, go for a ride (nicest day of the year so far).

Finished off mounting the shocks on all 4 corners and mounting the wheel spacers.

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I have to figure out something here... the rear tie rod end's adjustability is at its limit yet the tire is still pointed toward the outside of the car. its possible that I need to buy a different tie rod end that has a longer shaft.

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I couldn't resist mounting the rear wheels and getting a feel for how sweet this is going to look.

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Tomorrow i plan on getting foot box aluminum completed, steering in and peddles mounted.

[tanderson1]

I was close to Princess Auto so i used that as an excuse to buy a stool, brake line bending tools, brake line cutter, punch set, flare nut wrenches, etc.

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Started on the steering assembly, I started by counting out all the parts, everything was there. Started measuring and drilling, got to the step with the shear pin and it must have rolled away. Can't find the damn thing anywhere. Now i have to figure out where to buy one.

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So attention shifted again... this time to the garage door. In took 4 of us 4 hours to finish the high lift door conversion. Now i can lift my truck to the limits of the lift.

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I also had time to mount a retractable trouble lite from the roof that i bought a few years back

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Followed all that up by resorting some boxes and cleaning up the whole garage again.

all in all not a ton of car progress today but some great garage progress.

[grifter]

after a few months without progress I spent a whole weekend on it.


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Engine is in, Trans-axel goes in tomorrow.

Hoping to be driving the unit without a body by mid next month.

[Sentry]

Looks rowdy.

I'd be tempted to just call it done without a body on it and drive it like that.

[relyt92]

Originally posted by Sentry
Looks rowdy.

I'd be tempted to just call it done without a body on it and drive it like that.

Throw a windshield on it and call it a day.

[jacky4566]

Awesome project. Makes me want to order an 818 kit.

Too busy with the 240Z right now. :P

[civic_stylez]

Great build! I hope youre not going with the Forgiatos in the original pic!!!!

[grifter]

I dont have time to update 2 forums so if you want to read more i am posting over here.

http://thefactoryfiveforum.com/showt...l=1#post211629