Darth Vader's Helmet

[M.D. Holloway]

Dang son, that is one sweet ride! How did you remove the old paint? Blast, sand or chemicals? What primer was used?

[dimeified]

How will you ever get this thing out of the garage? It looks so clean and perfect that if it were my car and my hard work, i would not want to get it on the road. I would probably just end up putting it on display in my living room, blocking the television

[Nickatnyt]

Originally Posted by Gertvr

The painting was way more than I expected was planning around $3.5K but ended up being $6.5K.

Killer looking car! I feel your pain regarding obscene bills. My electrical problems went from $2K to $4k and ended up at $6.8K. Of course some of that bill was 'do it while it is tore apart' maintenance and upgrades.

[lateapex911]

Wow,,,that front end work is surgically clean. NICE!

[Gertvr]

Here is another progress update. I had so many interruptions that i ended up spending not even cose as much time as i hoped and the initial plan was to be finished by Christmas, not sure who i ever could have thought that was possible.

The fitting of the panels and new components like the MSD took the a long time to complete and the wiring took the longest by far and was the biggest pain.

After fitting the wheels it looks like they are all going to need spacers to fill the wells and the back wheels are also just rubbing on the oil lines.

I ordered PMO carbs in October and still have not recived the manifolds to complete the engine bay not sure whats up with that.

Additional work completed so far

Gearbox assembled,
Engine installed,
Oil cooler lines installed.
rerouting of fuel lines, MSD Installation, rewiring of engine wiring harnass to remove CIS wiring
battery relocation complete, wiring installed and checked
Trunk area complete except for gas tank filler tube,
Rear bumper installed and fitted


We were planning to have this as a daily driver, autocross and track day car but i have some reservations about that now.




















Some more to come....

[Gertvr]

Some more pictures of work completed yesterday.

Installed fenders,
Steering wheel,
positioned oil cooler

After installing the steering wheel, there was no way of getting a full view of the gauges with out realigning them. I will have to send them in later to get the faces changed to be visible under the small steering.

Engine bay done last week, spill over from update 2..


Trunk wiring and battery relocation:










Getting ready to fit the front fenders





Small steering wheel problem..




Still to be done this coming week:

Rout flexible oil lines,
fit front bumper
install headliner on the weekend.

[rattlsnak]

Outstanding job!!

and now you know why i giggled when you said you were going to finish it over Christmas vacation..!!

[cowfly911]

Darth Vader would be pleased...LOL

[Macroni]

Gorgeous; can't wait to see the finished car.

[mb911]

looks awesome.. I like the muffler What size battery did you use for you relocation. I am planning on doing this shortly and looking at what size battery best fits and brand if you have it handy.. Now I want to redo my car after seeing this

[CarlP]

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[Gertvr]

Originally Posted by LubeMaster77

Dang son, that is one sweet ride! How did you remove the old paint? Blast, sand or chemicals? What primer was used?

Thanks. Used Aircraft paint remover to strip the paint then metal prepped with PPG DX 579 metal cleaner and PPG 520 metal conditioner. Primed with PPG DLP90 Epoxy primer.

[Gertvr]

Cool, just figured out how to use the multi quote function..

Originally Posted by mb911

looks awesome.. I like the muffler What size battery did you use for you relocation. I am planning on doing this shortly and looking at what size battery best fits and brand if you have it handy.. Now I want to redo my car after seeing this

Thought you might recognize the muffler. I used the Odyssey 925. There is a smaller one (680) not sure if it will be capable enough for street going car with all electronics, winter starting etc. Maybe someone with a 680 installed can pitch in.

Originally Posted by rattlsnak

Outstanding job!!

and now you know why i giggled when you said you were going to finish it over Christmas vacation..!!

I will never say that again

Originally Posted by dimeified

How will you ever get this thing out of the garage? It looks so clean and perfect that if it were my car and my hard work, i would not want to get it on the road. I would probably just end up putting it on display in my living room, blocking the television

I hear yea, this was supposed to be an all round car, track days, autoX & DD but now...

[84CAB]

I used the Odyssey 925. There is a smaller one (680) not sure if it will be capable enough for street going car with all electronics, winter starting etc. Maybe someone with a 680 installed can pitch in.



I have a 680 installed. Two years without any issues, car is on battery maintainer the majority of the time but I have left it off for several weeks in the winter and did not have starting issues. I'm in Memphis so we have the same climate as you. -NICE car BTW!

[x98boardwell]

Subscribed. Great Job!!

[Gertvr]

This was propably the most frustrating part of the build to date , The aluminum trimming that goes in the window seal rubber was a pain and even more so the wiring for the rear window defroster. The 1st new pop out rear quarter window seal just didnt want to go in, and stay in the wondow frame groove. With some aggressive language and preserverance finally figured out how to make it stay put, after that no problems for the 2nd window

Ahh.. then the Appbiz carpets.... i finished installing the B-Quiet sound deadening at 9pm one night and moved on to the start installing the carpets, well there was no instructions, it took quite a while ,3 hrs to be presice, to get it all figured out i.e. what goes where and the sequence of events, now i know why i played Tetris....

The ign coil is to close to the driver side carb and will have to be moved to where the fuel filter is now and relocate the filter close to the pump.

So, completed since the last update:

Front Bumper and brake cooling.
Head liner and new A & B Pillar trim
New Dash
Windows
New Carpets
Finally received the inlet manifolds and installed the carbs.

Here are some pictures of the progress


1/11/08







1/29/08














Some more later...

[jkarolyi]

Looking B*tchin'!!!

[johncmng]

I think I've found Darth Vader's lightsaber

[JP911]

FYI, since you're going to carbs, you won't be needing the CIS accumulator any more.

[Gertvr]

Originally Posted by JP911

FYI, since you're going to carbs, you won't be needing the CIS accumulator any more.

Thanks, i will not install it when i relocate the filter, it was making a weird noise anyway, i guess its not coping too well with the amount of fuel flowing through it with the PMO pressure regulator diverting most of the fuel back into the tank.

Originally Posted by johncmng

I think I've found Darth Vader's lightsaber

Good one..... actually was thinking something different