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My Black Bitza
demonx:
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The way you have the car chocked up with timber is a bit of a worry though.
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Yeah! Scares the sh#t outta me every time I see that in a pic!
nifty:
coming along very nicely.... im with the others though... all the money spent so far, why not lashout and buy some car stands.......people squashed dont build cars real well.
Scott:
There are a pair of axle stands under the chassis rails near the A pillar holding up the car. The stack of hardwood blocks was just to take some of the load as the front of the car, including the engine is all cantilevered in front of the axle stands. Each measure can support the car on it's own, but I have put both in there for added sturdiness.
Scott:
I guess it's time for another update. The chassis was cleaned up, painted and had the shiny control arms, billies, new ball joint, new tierods and uprated front springs added.
The seat shells were cleaned up and painted a while ago.
I has the cushions re-trimmed as well and they came out really nice, unlike this photo...
Today I made a trip to the wreckers and picked up this.
Falcon thermo fans, well known for their ability to flow bulk air. Also featuring a built in shroud for added effectiveness.
By pure luck, these things are the perfect size for a corvette radiator, both in width and height. The edges of the plastic shroud just hang over the edge of the finned area like they were made for it. The shroud hits on the inlet and outlet pipes a little, but that can be trimmed easily enough and I'll add some brackets to mount the fans to the radiator nice and firmly.
I'll have to work out some wiring for the thermo fans, but tridon make temperature switches that will bolt into the water jacket of the intake manifold, right near the main water outlet, so hopefully that should all work out well.
demonx:
I am soooo glad that I've finished underneath - although if I was to do it again I'd sandblast everything and paint it up nice before all the new parts went in.
Looks like you've been damn pretty busy. Unless people have done this work they cannot begin to appreciate how much work is involved!!!
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