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MassIVe 79 vert progress.....
Jake and I traveled to North Carolina Saturday to see the upholstery guy and pick out what we wanted. Went ahead and took him the 911 seats for the front and the 2 pieces of the back bench seat. We were there for 4 hours! Imagine that....Jake talked about engines the whole time! Anyway, we're very pleased with what we picked out and I think it is really gonna look sweet when it all comes together!
Yesterday we started getting parts together for the engine assembly.....got some things balanced and cleaned up the case (I've been much more up close and personal with the parts washer than I ever wished to) I have updated the photobucket albums to include some pics of the parts ready and waiting for assembly. Just take the link below and be sure to check out all the albums http://photobucket.com/albums/a115/massive79vert/ The read only password to view this album is: Guest
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cool. so you going to tell us what you picked out or what? glad to hear you are digging in on the engine too. you may need to get in better with the boss though to move up off that parts washer.
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I'll have to see if I can't kiss up to "the boss" a little better next time and move off that damned parts washer!
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We made a little bit of headway with the engine over the weekend but not as much as we would have liked to.
The interior is going to be sweet for sure! I had absolutely nothing to do with the interior choice- Thats all HER! All I care about in the interior is a set of Dual westach instuments to monitor my baby hiding out under the decklid! The body and paint should be done in less than two weeks, then we Line X the tub, trunk and engine bay and install the podercoated top frame and associated seals and windows- Then its off to the interior shop! While it's there I'll finish the engine, dyno it and design the gearbox and have those parts cryoed and superfinished then assemble it. The goal is to Debut the car at the fall Circle Yer wagens event and get 50 MPG on the way there!
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DeJaVu (ignore the tweeters, they have been removed and replaced with far nicer ones located in the stock circular heater vents on the dash, see http://members.lycos.co.uk/vdubhub/a...-TweeterIn.JPG ) CHT where the stock clock went, stereo relocated to glovebox, stock stereo slot used for 3 other gauges. Lumps of carbon used where I can. Sounds like your car is gonna be very nice. Cya, SAm C
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Yep- Her car is indeed the "Princess edition"! Heck, its only taking less than 100 days to finish the entire project if we stay on schedule!
Sam, your dash looks similar to what ours is going to be, but for some reason your steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car! Might want to look into that!!!!! Must be a bitch to drive! We are using dual Westach instruments, the stock clock will be giving up its position for a dual AFR and Tach all in one and we'll have dual EGT, Dual CHT and Dual Oil temp and pressure where theradio used to go... We are installing a GPS and satellite radio to boot!
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Although saying that I have recently invested in satnav for my mobile phone, so my bug will have satnav/GPS too Cya, Sam C
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Since there haven't been any posts to this thread in ten months, I feel I should be safe as far as the statutes of hijacking is concerned.
I was forced* into considering what I might want to do as far as gauges are concerned even though I do not want to do anything until I upgrade my Super's drivetrain. (* - via the stereo thread of mine) Quote:
Here is the one which caught my eye. The pic at the bottom is 4xEGT but 4xCHT is available and is what I want. |
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Thats a cool instrument and works well..
The plans ofor Beth's car have changed a bit and now it's getting a fully digitized instrument that will monitor 8 parameters of the engine while fitting in the stock speedo location- it's bad ***!
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Cool. I'd like to see her newer unit if you get a chance to post it sometime.
I have some ideas swimming around in my head between the Westach quad I linked above and the ideas being used on another older thread called "Gauge Art" (if I remember correctly). |
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