Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #45 – January 11, 2011, 11:13:45 PM Quote from: ZondaC12;349378Hell yeah! I'm amazed at his (their) work. I say their because it's him and his brother Matt that run the "whole operation". They gave me a list of options and I said I wanted everything with everything on it. Porting it to flow like a GT40, cleaning it in a solvent tank, bead blasting everything and then coating it with clear ceramic enamel good to 500 degrees F. Took 'em a few days and that's it. Really impressed. How much does that service generally cost ? Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #46 – January 11, 2011, 11:43:57 PM Can't imagine much has changed in about a month or so...it's $150 to have a lower ported. Another 30 and you get it cleaned, blasted, and painted. Another 100 and he'll clean, port, blast and paint your upper. To send your lower back to you it's 25-30ish depending on where you live, sending back an upper and lower is 40-45ish, same deal. It's well worth it. Came out to right about $360 I spent all said and done, including getting the thing to them! They're in MO just fyi. If you do send them an intake and want it cleaned, be sure you do them the courtesy of taking it to a DIY carwash and blasting the hell out of it to get the caked on gunk inside/under the lower off, that helps them get it done quicker and guarantees that it'll come back to you like mine did, literally spotless, like a brand new piece. I mean not ONE speck of dirt/oil anywhere. Period. Quote Selected
ALRIGHT!!!! A year and four days later. It's time. Reply #47 – January 15, 2012, 09:48:32 PM My friend and his dad have been goin' full bore since the day they moved into their house. The planets aligned and he got time off from helping at his BIL's shop. And now...he will focus his energy towards this. I can't express how excited I am. :DWhat a sight it was to see it OUTSIDE lol. My friend will be sure to take as many pictures as possible during the transformation, which includes a couple holes in the passenger side floor I found not too long ago as well, hidden right up above that brace that sits there behind the splash guard.I cannot wait to be chirping tires and lookin' good all over creation come spring time. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #48 – January 16, 2012, 06:14:50 AM looking good Paul, I am glad to see those headers are gonna get some use. What year is the panther in the picture? Is it a slicktop? 87 or 88? Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #49 – January 16, 2012, 08:41:16 AM Pics like that actually make me miss the days I was swapping EVERYTHING on the Sport. I enjoyed it. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #50 – January 16, 2012, 06:11:22 PM This should look factory correct (i.e. no sloppy "patch job") when it's done correct? If so it should be awesome. While it was apart you didn't happen to find any factory paint or inspection marks did you? Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #51 – January 16, 2012, 08:41:07 PM Dude....I've been meaning to take a picture of this one thing for about since you MADE that thread. :hick:I think it goes perpendicular to the length of the vehicle, on the driver's shock tower, there is a faint yellow printing, stencil I guess, painted on that says "4 21". The door jamb says 4/87 as the build date. So I concluded that it's birthday is April 21st 1987. :D I make a note of it every year!! Lol.Your first statement is why it's going to who it's going to. He knows exactly how I am and will do his best to blend it in with everything that's there. I'm really excited. I'll have to post pictures of my lower quarters that he patched. The 1-inch flat feature right around the wheel opening and their slight kick-out, the whole shebang, they look how they should. He will do the black car as well, unless I decide I want to practice welding some more and try. That car I'm not nearly as worried about. Don't want it looking awful, but this car is the one that calls for this type of attention. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #52 – January 17, 2012, 12:01:01 AM Quote from: ZondaC12;377876Dude....I've been meaning to take a picture of this one thing for about since you MADE that thread. :hick:I think it goes perpendicular to the length of the vehicle, on the driver's shock tower, there is a faint yellow printing, stencil I guess, painted on that says "4 21". The door jamb says 4/87 as the build date. So I concluded that it's birthday is April 21st 1987. :D I make a note of it every year!! Lol.Your first statement is why it's going to who it's going to. He knows exactly how I am and will do his best to blend it in with everything that's there. I'm really excited. I'll have to post pictures of my lower quarters that he patched. The 1-inch flat feature right around the wheel opening and their slight kick-out, the whole shebang, they look how they should. He will do the black car as well, unless I decide I want to practice welding some more and try. That car I'm not nearly as worried about. Don't want it looking awful, but this car is the one that calls for this type of attention.Where's the picture ?I'm glad the guy you're using is going to make it look factory. if you want "originality" it has to look original. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #53 – January 18, 2012, 01:02:12 PM That's awsome! I'm glad to see after all this time they're going to get it done for you. Being that you know them I'm sure they'll do a good job for you. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #54 – January 28, 2012, 03:04:43 AM Just some cell phone pics I took tonight while I was up there. I'll have all his detailed pictures of every step of the process once it's all said 'n' done. But he's movin' right along. No rush on his part or mine, I'm happy to have the middle stall my mom allows me to use, to now park the vic in instead of being jammed up by an immobile vehicle. That and I was able to replace a GONE control arm bushing. Notice the notch he cut to match the factory rail LOL :D Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #55 – January 28, 2012, 12:15:01 PM Looking good. It looks like he's going to do a hell of a job. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #56 – January 29, 2012, 01:51:31 PM I forgot to mention that the top cover piece is actually real solid so he said let's re-use it!! :DThose tubes...they're from an old garage door torsion bar spring shaft. Hopefully a nice one like a Wayne Dalton or something LOL. And that's an optical illusion, no a Tidy Cats tub is not holding this car up. Unfortunately. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #57 – January 29, 2012, 11:58:42 PM You're going to re-shoot the entire bay when he's done right? Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #58 – January 30, 2012, 07:51:12 AM Noooooo no no way too much good original paint. :DHe's gonna use gray sealer just like what they used and try to match the light covering the factory did. About half that engine bay is grey and half is red. Pretty sad but that's the way it was, and he maintains he can continue the pattern where he worked. If he has to scuff off some more in the surrounding area to give him room to blend, that's fine with me. That will be interesting, to see if he can pull it off, and I can't see why not Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #59 – January 30, 2012, 06:02:58 PM The factory really did a half ass job painting the engine bay on these cars. I have seen some that are pretty much fully covered and some that are really splotchy. Most of the time the paint does not extend below the pinch weld between the firewall and cowl. Mine looked to be fairly well covered before I re-painted it but that could have been because the car had a silver engine bay, which blends well with the gray primer. Quote Selected
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