Bodywork Progress on the '67

[LMDGUY]

WOW... looking great

[vp23271]

The work looks super clean! Looking forward to seeing your progress. Thanks for posting all the pic's!

[Young Gun]

all of it is looking killer! when does the rest of the body get paint?

[James OLC]

Test fitting the HREs one last time before mounting the R888s:

[James OLC]

Way more work went in to the inner fenders than will ever be noticed:

[James OLC]

And now some color and a slightly different perspective:

[James OLC]

all of it is looking killer! when does the rest of the body get paint?

With any luck we'll get it off the rotisserie by mid-week - we have some screwing around to finish up with the headliner that is proving much more of a PITA than anything so simple should be.

Once it's off the rotisserie and on the hoist we'll reinstall the rear suspension and hopefully fuel system then the the front sub goes on and it'll be on the ground on it's own wheels and tires. Screw aroung with this and that for a week or two and then it should be ready for paint... figure first week of June?

[James OLC]

It seems like it's been a slow week but we've been making progress although much of it is slow and tedious.

We wet sanded and polished the firewall:





We got our increadible Rick's Stainless tank prepped for intallation:





we'll get it installed tomorrow along with the Lateral Dynamics 3-link.

[James OLC]

At the same time the Dynamat was going down on the interior:

[James OLC]

And the firewall assembly started, with the Tilton 900-Series pedal assembly going in first:

[James OLC]

Leaving us here:



We'll assmemble the clutch tomorrow and get thre transmission mated to the engine for the final time abd, with any luck, we'll get the subframe mated to the rest of the car.

[Bow Tie 67]

Very nice build.

I have a question on the roll-bar. I noticed in earlier pics you had a halo with forward down-bars, did you remove it permanently or is it removable? In the future I would like to add the forward sub-frame bars but do not want to put in a halo.

Thanks,
Matt

[TA219]

That is awesome stuff!! Very nice car!!

[James OLC]

Very nice build.

I have a question on the roll-bar. I noticed in earlier pics you had a halo with forward down-bars, did you remove it permanently or is it removable? In the future I would like to add the forward sub-frame bars but do not want to put in a halo.

Thanks,
Matt

To make a long, sad, and frustrating story short, the halo bar and A-pillar tubes have been "permanently" removed. It wasn't an easy or satisfying decision to have to make but they had to go; I might revist that part of the cage in the future as circumstances dictate - we'll see. I did, however, chose to keep the forward down bars and the firewall cross bar beneath and behind the dash; they are actually largely integrated into the body of the car.

[Motown 454]

Looks Awesome love the color and the motor
Wayne

[James OLC]

Our McLeod RST Street Twin clutch arrived so we took the opportunity to assemble it and install the Rockland Standard "Son of Tranzilla" T-56 using ATS's T-56 crossmember.



If anyone is interested, I posted the installation step-by-step here: Installation Thread

[67SSDan]

Awesome awesome build man!!

Front's are 18 x 8.5 with 255/35's
Rears are 18 x 11 with 315/30's
Tires are Toyo Proxes R888's

Do you happen to remember what the backspacing is on the fronts?

Dan

[James OLC]

Thanks.

The fronts are +29 offset or 5.89" backspacing.

It is worked for me, in this application, but I can't guarantee that it will work for anyone else - it's really (really) close. If nothing else, consider it a starting point.

I used a mount mate to get close then bought a cheap american racing wheel from summit to double check suspension clearances. We actually started with a 6.125" BS but the 5.89" was the max to clear the AP brakes.

[67SSDan]

Cool, thanks man!

Dan

[James OLC]

It's been a slow two weeks between holidays and an unfortunate delay at the coaters but I'm back on it now. We got the headers ceramic coated and installed now. I love the headers from this point of view - you never really get to see it and it really gives you an idea how much beef the ATS headers have:







Once we shuffle some things around in the shop we'll drop the body on and, if the center section arrives, we'll have the car on the ground by the end of the week.