here's a few pics!
here a video of the completed car...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vey-RcRPa5Q
We sprayed it avus blue like the car.....man painting a cage sucks!
We got the car all back together and it's almost ready for it's first test.
Now that we are finished with his car, he is going to help me with mine. Hopefully we can get my car done alot faster now!
I was able to resist the urge to attend the bmw wheel power meet then go to Long Beach grand prix and instead we worked on the car....
We broke out the sawzall and went nutz!!!
Started to prep the engine bay by removing radiator support/firewall sheet metal and the small firewall at the back of the engine bay thanks to a cool new spot weld drill bit and a nice big sawzall!
The radiator will be moved forward and lean a bit. the engine bay is now huge! You could fit a V8 in there! It will have a fan on the backside of it as well.
Began sanding/grinding down all the old crusty paint in the engine bay in prep for welding and fresh paint.
Removed dash support sheet metal as well. This was done as I will be adding a dash bar to connect to my engine bay tubes. I will be fabricating a new dash.
So basically the plan is that I will be adding to my cage alot.
X on the door bars
Bars to tie into the rear subframe
rear strut towers tube and tubes to the diff mount
and finally extending the cage to the front shock towers
...also planed are Tilton pedal setup, mc with brake balance and bias control etc....
oh yeah rebuilding the engine! man...I think I bit off more than I can chew!
Hopefully my good friend Dimitri will lend me a hand and we can bust out all this incredible amount of work!
all the pics CLICK HERE.
Actually I never touched the whole drive train and engine bay since I bought the car.
So I decided to tackle it all in what I'm calling "phase 2"
-painting engine bay
-reinforcing&restoring all suspension components
-more extensive cage layout
-fresh motor
-new braking "system"
-New and improved dash and wiring.
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