My '88 Coupe build (Page 3/13)
HTXtremes OCT 02, 12:31 AM
Thank you for the complement! Got the bug! After I got home from teaching class tonight I had to go out and run my fingers over her smooth lines, and wish it was still the weekend so I could get more done. Seems that there is never enough time in the weekend to get done what you want to get done.
Mr.PBody OCT 02, 12:44 AM
Yeah I am in the same boat, I got a job to pay for my addiction, now I barely have time for it.
HTXtremes OCT 02, 01:18 AM
Forty hours a week as an electrician, and two nights a week as a college instructor, guess its more free time then last year of teaching three nights a week. LOL Oh well the pay is good and it helps me be that much closer to getting my car done.
ALLTRBO OCT 03, 08:30 PM
A twin turbo V8 with a proper wheelbase? Sweet! It's no real F40, but it's cool that you're using a proper number of cylinders and turbos while stretching it to create a more "realistic" replica. You are cheating on the displacement and number of gears though.

Keep the pics coming.
HTXtremes OCT 04, 12:10 AM
I know ALL TRBO, But it is my personal car so why not have it the way I want it! LOL

OK some more pics from tonight, First one is a comparison of a stretched panel to a non stretched one!



Update on new spare location! (still in the works no final location of other parts set yet)



Last is a picture of the top cut to make the rear hatch look right!




I don't get much done during the week, but I get a lot of drool time on here during the week, LOL! I ordered the tubing for the roll bar today, not going with Chrome Moly, no body can get it in locally. Going with 1 3/4" DOM .125" wall tubing. Might end up having a second rear hoop bent with the extra pipe I have to order.
HTXtremes OCT 05, 07:22 PM
Did some pricing and looking for the Chrome moly tubing to build the roll bar! Ebay was the only place I could really find, $45 + $19.02 for 8 ft of 1 3/4" x.083". So I thought it might not be worth going chrome moly if it was going to cost $245 for enough to build the roll bar! Then I looked into DOM (drawn over mandrel) tubing, which would have to be 1/8" wall. DOM tubing from a local guy was going to cost me $5.49 a foot but I would have to order 40 ft to have enough to build the roll bar, this totals about $220 before taxes almost $240 after taxes. So thus I went back to ebay, the seller for the moly I was looking at will combine shipping, bringing the total for the Chrome Moly to about $200 to the door. Chrome Moly bar is back in the works.
niemann99 OCT 06, 12:34 AM
Nice! Pretty ambitious for a first build. Just to let you know, Jegs has everything from halos and hoops, to a complete chassis kit, check it out. A hoop is only $52, halo & hoop is only $92
Mr.PBody OCT 06, 12:55 AM
This is a sweet build. I had a thought though, shouldn't you design your front spare holder around the rims you end up using, or is the stock rim going to be the spare?
HTXtremes OCT 06, 03:02 AM
niemann99
As for the Jegs roll bars, They will not fit the way I need them to fit, I.E. almost disappear into the cockpit, besides they are .135" wall tubing which will be pretty heavy when I'm trying to keep the weight as low as possible.

Mr.PBody
The stock tire being used for the mock up is just for a rough fit. I will need to make room for a tire that is 25.9" x 9", for the new spare will be a 205/55r17, the front tires will be 235/45zr17 (25.4") and the rear will be 335/35zr17 (26"), thus the spare should be ok to run on either front or rear and not be a D@MN dough nut! Oh yeah I need to run a 17" spare for the future brake upgrade, 13" Wilwood!

[This message has been edited by HTXtremes (edited 10-06-2007).]

HTXtremes OCT 06, 11:24 PM
Updates from today's work, first picture is me trying to get the lines lined up, put some masking tape on it then put primer on the tape to get a feel of what the new lines were going to be. No glass work on the top yet.



Expandable foam to fill in the void between the top and rear hatch, will tape over and glass the two pieces together.