Progress Thread Hoopty v2.0 - It All Snowballed

General karthief said:

Car getting a sun tan?
Garage sale?
New carpet and seat install?

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I’ll take door #3!

Mustang5L5 said:

The new seats going in?

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Yep

a91what said:

Someone must have gotten a bonus

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Sht I wish.

95BlueStallion said:

Monday off?

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Nope, this was yesterday.

I'll get some better photos of the interior once I can get it all cleaned up and presentable. It really looks good, better than I expected.

FoxMustangLvr said:

The car is looking really nice bro! I hope you get this HG issue figured out. E7's should take 10psi easy. If there is another HG issue I would stud the heads next time.

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That's the strange part - it has studs already.

#1) I finally got around to picking up and installing a 7# spring in the WG last night. I went and beat on it for the first time and everything seems to be holding together. The transmission shifts way too soon (3500-4000) so it's not easy to really lean on it. But that's probably a good thing. I smoothed out the VE table and it seemed to like that as well. No pics, but I did get some logs. They look good.

#2) I started working on the seat brackets, but it got late on me last night. The bolts are just holing it together until I can weld it. Going to try and finish it tonight.


#3) I drove it to work today! probably has a couple hundred miles on it now. The exhaust is settling or something, it's rattling against the body somewhere. Slightly annoying at times, but if that's all I can bitch about, then I guess we're doing ok.

Oh I almost forgot! I got some basic plans and pricing back on my shop.



Need to get some elevations drawn up to submit to the Arch. Control Comittee. Then, survey, and start form work.

Mustang5L5 said:

Man, I wish I had the space to build a shop that big.

And also didn't have to spend $50K to get it either.

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Yeah, I am extraordinarily fortunate to have people willing to help me build. I'm still going to have a lot of money in it, but nowhere what it could be otherwise.

Sorry for the sht picture quality. The suede is black, not grey. It got dark and i was too excited to wait til tomorrow. They’re SO comfortable!!!



I’ll get better pics up in the daylight tomorrow. Ready for the LMR cruise in this weekend, weather pending.