The 5376 tread.

Sounding good
Cheers, Tim.

Since the summer has been great here in south of Norway, I havent done so much that I felt I needed an update here. Work done the last few weeks has been paint-stripping, and sanding, but today I came to the point that I put color on the front hatch and the engine lid. It will need to be rubbed and polished to look its best, but you get an idea of what it will look like.

Sweet! What is the color code?

Will paint the whole car. The paint is Standox LY5Q Lamborghini Blu Caelum-met. On top of that the paint is a metallic, it is allso a brilliant, making it not the cheapest paint out there. Hope I don't get stonechips when I'm ready...

Here is one more (crappy) photo of it. The blilliance in the paint makes it very light where the sun hits it, and darker where the shadow falls. Maybe I was so exited about it I got a bit shaky on my hands..

LOVE that color,Lambo!

Bought myself some new seats today. When mounted, I think I have solved the problem regarding cabinspace in a easy way. They look nice, are VERY thin in the back, and you sit as low as you can. They are from a Lotus Elise 111.

Good call. We've got a Lotus Exige and the seats are awesome. Very comfortable, and as low as you can go. Made me wish I hadn't recently bought seats for my Pantera, or I'd go with a set of those.

Lambo, those seats look perfect!
Are the seatbacks adjustable? If not, how many degrees of rake?
I need to get my back all the way to the firewall. In fact I fit best without any seat.
Thanks for sharing.

Will show photos and share how it feels as soon as they are in.

I have Elise seats installed in my GT5, the Lotus biscuit leather complimented the tan interior very well. They are reasonably comfortable on long drives, but non adjustable for rake. The drivers seat is adjustable front to back, the passenger side fixed. I had to make some mounting brackets etc. and spaced the front of the seat up to where it was most comfortable, which turned out to be where the seat back is in line with the rear bulkhead. I gained lots of cabin room and at 6' I have them one or two notches from the rearmost position.

Picked up the seats today. Tore out the old ones, and got the Elise seats in to the car on both sides. First of all, they was much better to sit in than I expected! I think they are better than the originals. Took a car-mag with me and sat there for about half an hour to REALLY sit in them before deciding on the rake I will have on them. On the driver side, I got my ass so much longer back so the spacer for the pedals I intended to use will not go into the car. As for headroom, I got allmost 1" more headroom. On the passengerside, the support for the shoulders interfere with the engine hump, and not going as far back as I hoped for.The seats back is 1/3" closer to the firewall, but since it has so much less padding I now allmost fits comfortable in the right seat. Before, I did'nt get my knee under the dash, and had a wery uncomfortable position. I'm 6'2", and 230+ and really needed the extra space I could get. So, to you that has a tight fit, the Elise seats is a great buy!!

PS: will post photos of the seat when I have the camera with me.

It's in a fabric not to unlike suede, but appers more grey here than they are compared to the original black interior. Will tear it out and have it all retrimmed. Here you see the positionn I will go for, and how close it is to the rear wall. That is where the most room is made.

One more.

Need some polishing, and it should be OK.

Thanks.
Those seem perfect for me too! Nice.

Bare ta kontakt om du vil teste for å se om du passer. Espen på Kjeller?

PS. that was Norwegian..

Got a bit tired of sanding, so I worked a bit on the interior today. Got it all out, and finnished the headliner, and the panels around them. Satisfied with the result so far. Will have the whole cabin in the same color suede/microfiber, but will keep the dash and console black.

Got some good tight fit. Being my first try on a interior, I'm pleased with it.
Next, a totally new back wall that hopefully will give me 1/2" or so more room.

Primer curing outside in the sun. (Or actually, as I took the photo the sun had a 5 min brake..)

I feel for ya. I am blowing primer out or my nose from sanding myself.

Looking forward to putting my sandingblocks up on the shelf soon Are you ready for painting soon Comp2?

If I were Chip Foose I would be painting by Midnight. I am not however and it will probably take me a month and a half to get all the details smooth and all the doors, hood, trunk, headlights, grills, trunk, underbelly and everything else the way I want it.

Just thought id let ya know chip has lots of help. My help just stands and drools only to wash it down with another beer as im still blowing out sand form blasting. cheers!

Got color on the car today. Will leave it for a few days before wet-sanding and polishing.

VERY nice! I bet it looks fantastic in person.

Damn great color! My next one is going to be that color...what are the color specs (other than blue ).

The paint I used is Standox LY5Q Lamborghini Blu Caelum-met. Had quite a few (7-8)spraycans mixd up with the blue colors I liked the most, so I could have a really look at a panel out in the sun, and this one made it.

Definitely a nice color choice! Can't wait to see it finished.

Michael

SO, it will be finished a bit later than first expected. The photo some posts earlier here was taken, and put here minutes after paint. After that, I go inside to sleep before going to work night this weekend, and when I come outside 5 hours after I find this: A dent/scratch running the whole lenght of the right door and back to the rear wheel.Hehind the door the metal is (was, as I have started to bang it out again) pushed in about 1". On the doors leading edge it is only a scratch growing into a apr. 1/2" deep dent. My neighbur had'nt seen it hit it, but there has been a delivery-van backing up in my driveway to do a turn. Did ruin my weekend for sure. BUT, it looked good for a couple of hours..

Holy S**t! You are a lot more calm about it than I would be. Maybe the Norwegian gods are trying to tell you they don't like blue, although I think it is a beautiful color.
Mike

WOW! That has got to be really frustrating! Any chance of getting an insurance claim against the delivery company? It won't eliminate your frustration, but some cash would buy more parts.

John

No time to cry about that. She did'nt get the name on the car, and I will probably spend fewer hours fixing it, than arguing about the insurance.

Ouch!

I'm quite pleased with myself today, after I managed to get the bent steel much closer to its original shape than I expected. Using a heat-gun to soften the paint, and a hard rubber hammer to smack the car, it turned out cuite well. Behind the door I will need to fill in 2mm or less (about 1/12") before repainting, and the same on the door, exept for just in the middle where the dent went from over the doors bead (if that's what it is called) to under it. It is placed just over the doors internal strebghtening, whitc means MUCH MUCh more job to fix a 2" part that now will require about 3-4 mm (less than 1/6") of bondo on that short piece. That I can live with. So, a quick fix of paint tomorrow I hope, and so, block-sanding the clear. Back in buisnes

Damn, I just commented on the beautiful paint the other day!! You on Valium?

Have'nt had the time needed to fix last of the dent before today. But today i ran the 1 foot long block over it for the last time, and will only need to run a 800 grit over the last primer before paint (hopefully tomorrow).

Got my new carbon bumpers from PIM today. Had to testfit them, and all the lights on the front to have a look.

Front shot. Think this will be nice

The angle of the front shot makes the car look so low that it might have trouble clearing that gravel.

John