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Cheers Marty!.. Yep, will have a rear seat. We've worked the floor & 4link specially. Took some figuring out but should have around 80% of a back rest on factor and plenty of ass pad. I'm also moving the parcel shelf fwd a couple of inches. Once it's all finished it shouldn't be too noticeable. The tubs look ginormous in the pic but they aren't too huge. I'm only running 255's on the rear, maybe 285's.

Also, saw some of your photoshop work somewhere in the forum a few days back. Cool man!

I love the sleeper-ness of it man, be great having trim similar to the original stuff and i guess an original colour....
Your tubs still look huge !! lol

And thanks for the comments re the Photo Chop Shop in the Artwork section ....
I can put 22 inch wheels on in 2minutes 20 lol .... but what your doing is a real life work of art!!
It's so sexy!!

Any update pics for us to feast on man?

Rock on!

Sorry Marty, just noticed your post. No real updates, might have a few in a couple of weeks. My 2013 res will be to finish it!.... I think that may have been my 2012 one as well

kiid61 wrote:Sorry Marty, just noticed your post. No real updates, might have a few in a couple of weeks. My 2013 res will be to finish it!.... I think that may have been my 2012 one as well

Well we are well into 2103 now, have you got it finished?
Seriously any updates?

Only finicky type stuff man, I'll try get something up over the next few weeks. I've just been messing around fitting seat belt brackets, getting the rear floor ready (bought a cleco kit to hold it in temporarily - Worth their weight in gold those things) etc etc. I had to unstitch & remove the boot hinges to get the rear belts in, so a new set of those will need to be made now .... It doesn't end. There isn't much ek left.

kiid61 wrote:Only finicky type stuff man, I'll try get something up over the next few weeks. I've just been messing around fitting seat belt brackets, getting the rear floor ready (bought a cleco kit to hold it in temporarily - Worth their weight in gold those things) etc etc. I had to unstitch & remove the boot hinges to get the rear belts in, so a new set of those will need to be made now .... It doesn't end. There isn't much ek left.

Be worth it in the end, good to see you're still with us

Well...........there went half of my day off
Started watching your build from the very beginning, a long time ago......but gave up once all the bullshit started being flung around
I thought "surely this fella's gonna just tell 'em all to get fuct and disappear, never to be seen again."
Now I've found it again and re-read the whole thing from the start. I must congratulate you and your old man for sticking with it,
and proving to the knockers that anything can be achieved with the right amount of time, patience and effort.

Outstanding work.........I really hope the inspectors will pass this thing......would be heartbreaking after all this effort not to.

Keep it up, I will be following with great interest!
All the best.............Bob

Cheers Bob... All good on the engineering front, he has inspected the car and loves it

thats just the news you want to hear

kiid61 wrote:Cheers Bob... All good on the engineering front, he has inspected the car and loves it

Awesome, sounds like 2013 is the year.

Just doing a catch up on old projects.
Glad to see you're still progressing this one.
I knew it wouldn't be a quick solution, look forward to seeing the final version.

FInally got a bit more interesting stuff done over the last few days

We finished off the covers/notch pieces for the 4link and rear shaft & tacked em in.

The bump stop brackets are 6mm and 3mm plate. The 6mm plate will be welded to the rails - I didnt want to thread through them because I'm going to be running air & power in there. The bump stops I modifed and welded to the 3mm plate.

The exhaust was also going to run up through the floor & over the diff, but there is more than enough room so I think I'll run it under the diff now. It'll flow ace too - should be able to make it all from one straight length without having it look like crap, may have to notch the fuel tank to suit though

I've also just about finished making all the buckets and anchor points for the seat belts, but I forgot to take pics. Next time.

Cool bit of tin work there.

thos thing is gonna rock when its finished

yep i really really love all the fabrication