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The Grey motor looks nice! Keep up the good work!

[Hray]

384 hours, 45 days down, 45 days to go.


Got the seven pieces powder coated today, came out real good for first attempt.

I then got most of the seven pieces installed on motor.

Looks like today is half way thru the final cosmetic stage of the build. I certainly do hope we are more than half way there. Even if mostly done before the 45 days I am sure we will find some little improvements to continue on until the final setup day. As has been said 'these cars are never really done, at some point we just decide to stop working on them'.

Will get pictures of the new powder coated objects and tomorrows progress tomorrow nite.

Ray

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You've got the motor in the car & the body in primer. The bodywork for Paint took me longer than anything else. Partly cause' I'm a novice bodyman, the rest cause' it's just a tedious job. If you are close with the bodywork I'd say you're not far off at all.

[Hray]

Mr. 13

We would like to think we are not way far off, the body is nearly perfect. While craig was spraying the last coat of primer I was looking in every direction possible while the primer was still wet looking for lows and highs. We think we are dialed in.

What to me is an unknown is doing the securing of the body to the frame and aligning the doors. However, with DV's method of cutting the cowl plates out and then aligning door that task may not be that difficult. So as long as the door fits the body good on all sides without doing major sanding and filling we are ok there.

The good thing is Craig is an expert on corvettes and working with fiberglass, and together we have done plenty of body and panel fitting.

I think the body should be going back on next week at the latest.

As for now gonna research steele rubber to find a little larger seal for around the roll bars.

Thanks for your comments and support. Ray

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As experience usually proves, fitting of the body will probably more of a worry than a challenge. Things like that always work out that way, for me, anyways. Looks like you are capable & the correct solution will present itself, It usually does!

[Hray]

Jan 6, 2010 update

397 hours, 46 days down, 44 to go

Here is a picture of the motor as it is going together, note the silver on the intake and exhaust is the cilgen satin aluminum high temp coating. I love the way it sprayed on, does not have to be cooked to cure. also you can see the new black oven cured powder coating we did. note the extra long plug wires, we think we can route them as shown, nearly totally hidden.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2791/...6df0b674_b.jpg

hood and trunk got the last coat of primer.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/...003cf02d_b.jpg

here we are reinstalling dash again to finish up all the wiring, and to see how it fit around 67 mustang column.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/...1dc89e99_b.jpg

[onetrackrider]

Ray
What did you decide on for a heater? I finally got to the point of charging
the coolant system on my build (after a couple of hiccups) & the Vintage Air heater works great.
Matt