F40 replica aka "operation turd polish" (Page 29/62)
normsf JAN 13, 02:14 PM
Hello, great work like your idea on shorting the front clip. Make you an offer, trade you the compmotive wheels and tires for a rear window. Thanks again from Norm

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Norm Vandermee

shemdogg JAN 14, 10:58 PM
Thanks norm but your window wont fit my car, I also cut 4" out of the back of the car to shorten it. I also extended the rear
of the roof about 7-8". My windows quite a bit smaller now. Im happy w the window I made, I need to clean up the corners
but thats it. Those wheels will fetch a pretty penny.

Got tons o body work done and a second coat of primer. Looks good from far but far from good. To me at least. I didnt start
sanding this coat yet so I can see the sheen. Even w all the longblocking I can see the sheen line isnt straight moving my
head meaning itll look like crap if I paint it cuz I dunno what im doing. So Im still looking for a body guy and may hit up some
shops for bids.

Do need to get it to the smog shop so I bolted down the rear grill and need to find the tail light harness I made, installed the
side mirrors and gas door. Cleaned all the garbage from inside, bolted the gauge cluster back down.

Real thing has plastic windows so im going to just make em outta 1/8", gotta compromise. Should have those in soon if the
rain lets up. Looking forward to driving it, not looking forward to the cloud of bondo n fiberglass dust thatll be swirling around
in the cabin. Ill hafta keep the windows down.

Pretty damn sick of fb and sanding, looking forward to working on other stuff. Next in line is windows, seals, interior
Walked into one of the spoilers vertical pieces, right in the ribs. Fu@k that hurt and still hurts days later lol

shem
Tony Kania JAN 15, 09:36 AM
I enjoy reading on your progress Shem. Thanks for posting.
Reallybig JAN 19, 01:42 AM
Watch "1990 Ferrari F40 LM - Full Restoration" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/1IV9ldMvdZI

I couldn't help but see some similarities between your project and this video. Keep up the good work!
normsf JAN 19, 03:31 PM
Very nice work
shemdogg JAN 19, 09:49 PM
Thanks you guys! Details schmetails! they are being vanquished little by little, but I still find a few things to do.
One piece of the car I never cut much into was the rear lower piece. Its a lil small n the devils been bugging
me for that for ages now so I cut into it. Heres the inside boogered up w 2 layers o mat n 1 layer clof


Looks much meaner now. Almost done with it.

Taped off the bottom of the door handles w hvac tape(works awesome) and wedged a bunch of mat underneath
to make a mounting area for the handles to bolt to. Also made door handle rods outta some drip irrigation stakes.

If you get really low you can see the vents


Oh yeah made me some winduhs. Had to move the front window pillar forward to be pretty much parallel w the
rear. Looks ok but hadta compromise. Pulled the window frames out and cleaned up the insides and boogered
holes shut.Was like john wayne w the dual wield heat guns melting the windows to shape.
Heres the pass side w window felt. N yes they move up and down with minimal resistance!

I can think of 2 tiny areas that need fb to make the groove smaller, but thats pretty much it for the fb

shem
IMSA GT JAN 20, 04:37 PM
A lot of times, people don't realize how subtle details change the entire look of the car. Here are photos from the very first post and the current car. One hell of a difference:
steve308 JAN 20, 05:47 PM
You should be extremely proud of your work and the results!
shemdogg JAN 21, 12:51 AM
I go back to page 1 often and look at the first few pics. What a stupid looking car lol what was I thinking buying that. I kinda had to
start doing what im doing to it as I got the stones to. I cut up every pice of fiberglass on this car n cut the fiero roof completely off!
WTF?! Yeah pretty proud of the car the car but more so the skills n tools Ive picked up along the way. Had
some good tips n lotsa cool comments along the way! Kinda tired o working on it tho, wanna wrap this sh!t up lol. Got the drivers
window bent up and almost finished. Hooked it up to the fiero window motor but its so flimsy that it doesnt want to slide down
equally and the window motors not strong enuf to move it. I have an 1/8 thick piece o steel screwed to the bottom of the window
to keep it straight. The windows will work till I get the 1/4 window bending down. The window shape is what it is so I can start on
the seals and some final welding.

Once the interior is sealed good, I can install the interior. Looking forward to that day

The back end doesnt look bad in person but when i put the camera lens to it it looks like sh!t. I went through some pics I made
ages ago and found this

Looks like I still have about 1/3 left o fb can #14, gonna go for it when time and weather allow, straighten the bottom and cut the
inner areas sharper
The back now looks like a regular f40 rear, n wah wah I want the LM rear!

shem
IMSA GT JAN 21, 08:46 PM
That LM rear end is possible but you sound as if you've had enough of this project. I could tell you exactly how to get that look but there are so many steps and so much fab work that you may just say screw it and leave the rear end as-is. I will say that the LM rear end would finish this car perfectly.