MassIVe 79 vert on the way to painter!
 

Thought I'd update you on the progress of the latest addition to the GL scene. The MassIVe 79 vert is on a roll back headed to the painter today!

Jake and I spent ALL day Saturday taking it apart and getting ready for a complete overhaul...paint, then a hefty dose of Line-X, then new interior (complete with 911 seats), new convertible top and then lots of carbon fiber goodies before the install of the RAT Super Efficient 2.0 liter plus!

Can't wait to get this thing on the road! We're shooting for the Sevierville show in October! Wish us luck :cool:

I'll get some pics posted as soon as Jake e-mails them to me.. He's in Las Vegas with his dad right now....maybe I can pull him out of the casino long enough to send me some pics. :D

congrats Beth... thats going to be one sick GL :D :agree:

Thanks Joe! I'm really excited about this car!

I've started an album on photo bucket so everyone can see the progress as we move along. Still need to upload picktures from the tear-down this past weekend....still waiting on Jake for those :rolleyes: At any rate, have a few pics from right after we bought the car and then after the Maxx struts and Porchse wheels were installed.

Just take this link:

http://photobucket.com/albums/a115/massive79vert/

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schaweet. may i take this opportunity to welcome our newest VKG member as well. a girl at that!!! :D :agree:

welcome Beth. glad to have you in the gruppe.

Beth,
The car looks good now, I can't wait to see what it looks like when it is done. Congratulations and welcome to the group.

By the way, Jake didn't take the title to the car with him to Vegas did he? :eek:

Glad to hear you two got it preped. I talked to Dave Mace tonight and they are ready and waiting for it. :agree:

Yep- Having fun in Vegas! I emailed Beth the pics I had on the laptop so she should upload them tomorrow so you guys can see what we are working with.

The car is very straight, and we didn't find ANY rust in the body at all, none of the typical Vert rust areas exist. It is so nice working with such a clean car for the foundation for this build.

I generally start with absolute junk and renovate it piece by piece and cut, splice and weld every part so I'm not used to working with such a vehicle and it sure is nice!

The car did not make it to the paint shop today, the tow truck got tied up but it will be there by Thursday!

The engine is my main concern right now. I want to finish it's assembly ASAP so I have plenty of dyno time with it to facilitate the testing of several different fuel injector sizes and also different throttle body sizes and plenum volumes. all these things are very important to our goal of 50 MPG while making 110HP. After the final; dyno runs when we have chosen the fuel maps and injector rates and timing settings I will then design the gearbox around those parameters. The gearing and final drive with this engine is very important because its a low revving, high torque super velocity powerplant- Its gear stack won't be conventional and it will also be getting a full dose of CRYO, and Isotropic superfinishing to reduce the power loss through the gears.

All the parts have been cryoed, and coated and all the internal parts will be back from being Isotropic superfinished tomorrow. Wait till you guys see what this process does to parts! I have never used it before due to it's extreme cost but to meet the 50MPG goal we need all the tricks that can be thrown at the engine to make it happen. Long story short all the internals of the engine appear to be chrome plated, but they are not- Just super micropolished, and the things that does to control windage is incredible and it KILLS friction at the same time.

The way it looks now everything will have to go flawlessly at the paint shop and the interior shop to make Sevierville.

It's been a long while since I built a car from scratch.. I had fun tearing it down and I think Beth was amazed that I pulled the engine and tranny in less than 40 minutes-I'm out of practice, that should have taken 30 minutes.

Thanks guys! We started out with a solid car that didn't really have a lot wrong with it. Just a little rough around the edges. But, you know how Jake is...EVERYTHING needs to be modified! ;) Once we got started, I caught the fever too. Jake said I went carbon fiber crazy! Is there something wrong with that?? :confused:

I've uploaded more pics from the teardown. Just take the link below and be sure to check out all 3 albums (April, May & June)

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WOW!
I just got back from my little trip to the desert and came home to some VERY sexy looking Superfinished parts for the Super 2 liter!

Wait till you see these pics!

Car goes to the paint shop tomorrow!