Heist's Build Thread.

[Heist]

This should be the last photo of the M10

[Max399]

The car looks so awesome without the front end
Reminds me of 280zx

[evilstar]

is it safe to assume you also going to shave the bay?

[CungChow]

NOOOOO!!

I just read through this entire thread over the past couple of days, and I am a little depressed that I reached the end. It's truly inspiring to see how much work you have put into this car. I know it has been said before but I want to do this amount of work to my car (it's not a 2002 sadly ). I just picked up a 1983 Volvo 245 DL Wagon and am hopefully going to be this extensive in my build. I have about 4 years to finish it since I am going to give it to my 12 year old brother for his 16th birthday. And if you don't mind I am going to steal your original color scheme of Black with copper accents, I think it would look ridiculously good on my car . anyways thank you for this build one of the first ones I've read on this site and truly is the best IMO.

Looking forward to updates, man.

[Heist]

Safe assumption evilstar. ChungChow- No problem always nice to hear people enjoying it / inspiring them! Goodluck on the build

Lied. One last photo of the M10

[CubbyChowder]

woohoo!!

[gonzakev]

that little m10 he was a fighter

[Heist]

Going to be going at this for the next few days. Trying to shave it all and start designing the mounts / cut the tunnel once someone buys the M10.



Project for tomorrow.

[CubbyChowder]

I'm about to start stripping/painting my engine bay and finish my pedal box as well. Nice progress

[Heist]

Are you removing the little compartment that I did? I'm doing manual brakes so I'm cutting up the pedal box.

I'm thinking of adding something similar to the stock (water catch?) compartment thing I removed.

[pauLE36]

Subscribed, <3

[CubbyChowder]

Are you removing the little compartment that I did? I'm doing manual brakes so I'm cutting up the pedal box.

I'm thinking of adding something similar to the stock (water catch?) compartment thing I removed.

Yeah I removed the entire pedal box just like you did, is that what you mean by compartment?

I actually have a quick question. I still have a lot of stuff in the engine bay attached, such as wiring, the whole brake booster/cylinder/steering column etc. I need to remove the whole booster/cylinder assembly so I can prep and paint behind it on the driver's side of the engine bay. Was that a bitch to remove? I haven't looked into it too much yet.

[Heist]

Yeah I removed the entire pedal box just like you did, is that what you mean by compartment?

I actually have a quick question. I still have a lot of stuff in the engine bay attached, such as wiring, the whole brake booster/cylinder/steering column etc. I need to remove the whole booster/cylinder assembly so I can prep and paint behind it on the driver's side of the engine bay. Was that a bitch to remove? I haven't looked into it too much yet.

See the chunk of metal thats pulled down in this photo?


Thats what I'm referring to.

It's really not bad just a little awkward. Shouldn't be difficult for you.

Been going at this thing all day. Not a ton of progress, but its still something

[CubbyChowder]

ohh ok gotcha, you're referring to what I believe is called the rain tray (or at least that's what I've seen other people call it). I'm keeping mine, I don't have any reason to remove it as I'm sticking with the M10 for now. I might do a swap down the road sometime but for now I just wanna enjoy the M10 with 5-speed conversion.

Nice progress on the engine bay though. Are you using that copper elbow pipe for something while you're welding?

[Heist]

makes sense. I use the copper on one side of every hole I fill so it keeps the grinding down. Little trick I figured out one day.