spy vs spy - v8 Vair

[nyciti]

Ok I'm on here everyday looking at what you guys are doing while working on my own stuff. Never thought I would post one of my projects. I've had some form of a g-body for the last 10yrs but always had a thing for vairs. Well one day I came across Mike Myers vair reached out to him and well the rest is below....I got rid of my montes and said the hell with it I'm going to do what I have been talking about for years.

Well once I said I was going to do it my buddy Simon found this on craigslist for $500 and found me a solid monte roller for $300. Picked them up around last June and have been working on this for about 1 day a week on and off since last December.

So thanks to Simon who's a good friend.

And for those who say its no longer a vair, thats nice.......but its MY vair!!




Here is the vair after a few hours after towing which was suppose to be quick = whole day!!



Here's the nice interior.



And the monte roller that I had sitting in the garage...

[nyciti]

So after a few weeks, got everything pulled from the cars and put the vair in the air to receive its "new frame"



RIP!!! - Don't even know if the thing ever fired up, guy I bought it from didn't know the state of the motor either and I figured why waste the time....so off to the scraps it went...


PLASMA anyone....man did it make quick work of it, can't think about doing it any other way




Monte frame ready phase 1!





Spent the day moving it over from one side to the other



In you go!!!!

[nyciti]

UNITY!!! Got the two welded up and now the fun starts




Well after LOTS of welding measuring, measuring, oh and measuring everything was welded in.

Now in the beginning the idea was to use the g-body floor. Well I started that way, got the firewall in and this was 1.0



Floor was in for the most part but I didn't like the way it looked and left me with a bit of fitment issues I didn't care to have.


Plus looking at the builds on here made it worst felt like it was crap. So I went to 2.0 (which I won't show)...hated that more.

Picked up some more tools and went with 3.0


This is how the car is today, still have to finish the floor and the rest of the firewall which is now completely smooth.


And now on to the heart of the beast, First fitting of the motor. Tack welded old firewall in place and loose metal just to see where things will end up at.


I think I have some clearance issues...

Now I did NOT want to mess with the original outside look of the car minus wheels, but somethings you have to do!

Ordered a steal universal scoop from AMD, started with this,

And this is how it looks today, still have many more hours of work on it but you get the point.

[96t/acj]

Nice nice nice, I love these cars.....

[Motorcitydak]

Dam that is a cool build there. Make sure you have some crossmembers where your seats bolt in, they will remove themselves if just bolted to flat sheet metal. Also I would not bother finishing up the floor until all the stuff that goes under there is done (trans, driveshaft and loop if planned, exhaust, crossmembers). You mite want to throw a large tubular steel X on that frame to connect the rear by where the control arm mounts are and take that as far forward as you can. If you make it un-bolt-able you can have everything above it yet still easy to work on if needed

[linkstar69]

Looks like a fun project that's for sure.

[brrymnvette]

That's awesome. Saw one done exactly like that at a car show about 10 years ago. Entire thing looked factory. I love those cars.

[craigs73]

cool build you got going on keep up the good work

[irregal83]

cool project!! keep up the good work

[John Wright]

Your vair is taking shape....can't wait to see more, especially the drivetrain

[nyciti]

Thanks everyone, hopefully drivetrain will be going in tomorrow for final fitting. There are crossbraces that I made, I'll see if I can find a good pic of it.

[454bug]

Excellent project and execution!!

Everything is coming together nicely.

[mc84_zz4]

Great huge start on the project.
You walk the talk. I'll be looking forward to upates
on this one.

[showa]

Good to see a Vair getting modded.... Great work...

[nyciti]

Well took almost a month off, life got in the way a little and I needed to step back. I hated the square tunnel, it sat to high in my opinion and I just didnt like the way it felt. So new metal and a new tunnel. But now I think I need a little help on ideas, I can't seem to come up with a firewall I'm happy with and I need to meet the tunnel to the firewall (can't think of a good way of getting the shape without doing several small pieces.)

I dont have fancy metal shaping tools so any ideas are welcome. Also the the top of the firewall will need to come in at least 4" right behind the distributor to clear the plugs and give me some room to adjust it.

[Twentyover]

Ever consider a wheelbarrow?Amazingly trans tunnel like.

[COPO-RAT]

Check this link...... https://www.pro-touring.com/showthre...gon-quot/page3 .....the wheelbarrow shows up on post #44 and is in the car on page 4, post #67

[nyciti]

Took the advice and did the wheelbarrow. Still have to finish my kick panels on both sides but other then that I now have a car with a structure.

Thoughts...

[nyciti]

ddd