"I drive my track car on the street" BUILD

[LaMaR-]

I ordered these spacers from Xcessive Manufacturing. They are one inch spacers for the subframe and I am really hoping they will give me enough clearance to run the factory hood.


Then threw the wheels back on to see how everything fit and see the new angle now that the tubs were completed.




Last but not least since I am now waiting to throw some real primer on the bay so that I can wet sand and paint it, I decided that I might as well throw on the bumper and fenders just to see who my clearance is. Before anyone says it, I know that I need to bring the rear end down some more.



Passenger fender fitment


Drivers


Here you can see how much I had to widen the front bumper in order to make it fit decent.. Some of these replica kits are absolutely ridiculous.

[LaMaR-]

Haven't had too much time this week and I will be working this weekend so I decided to take advantage of a free night and get my radiator support welded into place. Nothing special but it does allow me to slant the radiator forward and keep it in place. Nice and simple nothing over the top.

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and how it looks installed.

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The last thing that I need to do prior to paint is to build a mounting bracket for my oil cooler setup. I need to throw the front bumper into place and make sure that I place it properly into one of the openings.

[LaMaR-]

A little bit of filler and some seam sealer and these tubs will be ready for paint.

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can't wait to get it done and put the motor back in one last time.

[LaMaR-]

Sweet project man !! Looks awesome. Lol i understand about the breaks in getting it completed, life rarely wants to take a backseat to our fun and hobbies. My project is going thru the same life hurdles. 🙄 Keep plugging away !

Thats definitely life lol but I think I currently have a pretty good handle on things and I am moving fairly quickly in the right direction finally.

Hopefully by the end of the week I can have the bay in primer and ready for paint so that the motor can go back in next week.

[exoticse]

Sweet project man !! Looks awesome. Lol i understand about the breaks in getting it completed, life rarely wants to take a backseat to our fun and hobbies. My project is going thru the same life hurdles. 🙄 Keep plugging away !

[LaMaR-]

damn this thing is sick

Thanks, I just can't wait to go slide it around some lol

[imschwaggy]

damn this thing is sick

[LaMaR-]

Love the latest FC, looks really solid. Can't wait to see more progress!

- Renato

Thanks, I will be sure to update this as I continue to move along. I am hoping to have the engine bay finished up this next week and in primer.

Came for the 240, but staying for the 5.0 FC. Looking good so far.

Im not going to lie, I miss that 240 and wish I would have kept it.

In for tire smoke

Soon!!!

[cruuz]

In for tire smoke

[DeltaAlpha9]

Came for the 240, but staying for the 5.0 FC. Looking good so far.

[TWM Performance]

Love the latest FC, looks really solid. Can't wait to see more progress!

- Renato

[LaMaR-]

Big fan of this build. Keep it going.

I appreciate it and will continue to update this weekly.

[Reubencanyon]

Big fan of this build. Keep it going.

[LaMaR-]

Started on the drivers side and got almost everything Tacked into place. Ill finish it up monday or tuesday this week and move onto cleaning everything up and priming it and painting the bay.
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Side to side its pretty darn close I must say.
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[LaMaR-]

16AUG - The nice thing about Jacksonville Florida is that we actually have a shop dedicated to drifting.. The bad thing is, they can't do any fab work lol, what kind of shop is that??

Ive been working on doing tubs and after a busy weekend I got back to work.
Started out making sure everything was nice and level side to side.

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From there I just started slowly tacking everything into place. Nice and slow and trying to keep everything as clean as possible.
Far from perfect but for someone who hasn't done any sort of welding class I would say its not bad at all.

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both sides in.
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Because I want it to look good I am going nice and slow so heres where I stopped tonight. I started to make templates out of cardboard but I think tomorrow on my way home from work I am going to stop and grab some poster board since its easier to work with.
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