CITMOV's progress thread

citmov · Aug 16, 2011

StreetsideStig said:
Awesome! Keep it up!

Thanks! This will be a longer process than I thought but can't wait til it's done.

StreetsideStig · Aug 17, 2011

citmov said:
This will be a longer process than I thought but can't wait til it's done.

Haha, story of my life.

citmov · Sep 1, 2011

August - engine bay continued

Fuel rails and lower intake is off - 8/26/11

This is the 1st time I've done this by myself. It was a late Friday night and I just started unplugging and unbolting away. It was pretty straight forward and easy. Did a lot of labeling too so I don't forget.

Bryan83taco · Sep 1, 2011

Good progress man, it always take longer than we think/hope. But doing it slow helps minimize the mistakes made.

citmov · Sep 1, 2011

Bryan83taco said:
Good progress man, it always take longer than we think/hope. But doing it slow helps minimize the mistakes made.

Yeah, absolutely. But part of my slowness is just my tiredness/laziness to get back in the garage haha. I just want to make sure it's done right the 1st time b/c I hate doing things 2x's!

citmov · Sep 1, 2011

Does this ever happen to you???

So I'm at a point where I need to wait on my friend to help me to go further into the build process so I start to do some clean up work in the engine bay.

I start detaching some wiring and then saw that my passenger fender apron needed some minor sanding and touch up paint. I then realized I wanted to do more than just touch up and suddenly this happens:

And of course if I do one side I gots to do the other side:

After doing both sides I realize I should probably do the firewall so everything got pulled off my firewall above the firewall lip (sorry no pic).

Then I realize that I can't do all 3 sides and not the front
and then suddenly this happens!!!!...

Do you ever start something small and then suddenly it becomes a huge time consuming project??? Goodness...I went from some minor sanding to touch up paint to redoing it all!!! I figured that I since "I'm there", I might as well get it done. But seriously...it's a long, time consuming process. I'll post more pics later.

1989DropTop · Sep 2, 2011

Awsome thread and very nice work!!! Your making excellent progress your lil project will be so much cleaner when your done and you can have the satisfaction of saying you did it yourself. I am in the same boat with my 89 vert project more I tear in to it the more stuff I find to redo and since your inm there you better get it done and overwith. Great job so far I will be following this thread Nice Car

citmov · Sep 2, 2011

Thanks DropTop!!! It's a long and sometimes tedious job

1989GtFoxBody · Sep 2, 2011

Car looks great, I know how you feel. Two months ago I went from changing the battery to putting the battery in the trunk to taking the interior out to put the cable in to redoing the interior then by the time I got back to the bay I decided to do a wire tuck which lead to a bay smoothing.... lol.

citmov · Sep 3, 2011

1989GtFoxBody said:
Car looks great, I know how you feel. Two months ago I went from changing the battery to putting the battery in the trunk to taking the interior out to put the cable in to redoing the interior then by the time I got back to the bay I decided to do a wire tuck which lead to a bay smoothing.... lol.

Hilarious cause it just sounds so familiar!

StreetsideStig · Sep 6, 2011

Haha, reminds me of the time I took off a single interior panel for cleaning and ended up gutting the whole interior.

citmov · Oct 21, 2011

Sorry, progress on the build has been put on hold due to this little man entering our life...

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rdharper02 · Oct 21, 2011

Congrats man!

StreetsideStig · Oct 24, 2011

That's so awesome! Congratulations!

hsean · Oct 24, 2011

thats awesome what a beautiful baby

citmov · Nov 2, 2011

Thanks guys! He's rockin my world

1991notchbackLX · Nov 2, 2011

Suddenly, the car doesn't seem so important does it? The fiancee and I don't have any yet, but we want a few, for sure. Congratulations, pops!

Shaolin Crane · Nov 2, 2011

Glad you're happy, but I cant wait to get fixed.

VibrantRedGT · Nov 2, 2011

If you're going to have another kid, just some advice, bang them out close together. I have a 12 year old and 6 year old. They aren't into the same things obviously and will never be in the same school which sucks.

citmov · Nov 2, 2011

1991notchbackLX said:
Suddenly, the car doesn't seem so important does it? The fiancee and I don't have any yet, but we want a few, for sure. Congratulations, pops!

Yeah, for sure. Still love my mustangs but if at anytime the little guy needs anything the mustang def goes on the back burner 100% of the time!

Shaolin Crane said:
Glad you're happy, but I cant wait to get fixed.

Thanks Guy! And I hope you have one before you get fixed, then you'll experience the incredible joy of holding one of your own! I know you don't want any but this was my first and 2 months later I'm still blown away.

VibrantRedGT said:
If you're going to have another kid, just some advice, bang them out close together. I have a 12 year old and 6 year old. They aren't into the same things obviously and will never be in the same school which sucks.

Thanks for the advice! I was hoping to have twins to get'em done quick but no luck here haha. We'll probably go for #2 within a year or two.

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