The 5376 tread.

Or you could buy a set of Euro bumperettes. Not as much fun, but.... You might even be saving some money making your own.

Has to start to learn to weld aluminium sometime, so why not. All others has steel..

Here is the seat. Very dusty, very supportive and very comfy.

Nice seat. Those welds look pretty good.

Any thoughts on marketing the bumperettes?

I will count hours on the finnished item before I answer that.

Not much yet to look at, but I'm building a plug for my own interpretation of the non-fender GT-4 spoiler. Will be quite like the normal one exept that down towards the lower lip it is extender about 2" forward.

Testing out size and and place for the holes.

Fresh out of the plug. Looks a bit messy since the paint in the plug got messed up by the relese-agent I used (changed brand, not good).

And being in the middle of the night, with a freezing temperature, I got a bit of mist on the lens too..

One more:

And again:

That looks like a lot of work!
Good job.
It should definately bring in the air.

I love it when people go above and beyond to achieve their goals.
Very cool!

Great work. Thats gonna look awesome.

Blaine

Coooool ! any more photos ?

Ron

Bumper ready for final sanding and paint:

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The rear bumpers was a bit harder than the front ones to do. Hammering it to have a bend all the way was timeconsuming (apr. 1/3") and will hopefully be nice.

Next is to have the bumpershocks removed and try out the new bumpers. Hope they are easy to remove.

Do you have a photo further back so we could see how the air dam looks with the rest of the car?

Neat work. The bumper brackets look like guns.

Gary

Can roll it outside one of these days to get a sideview photo of the car. On the photos the airdam looks so and so, but in the flesh (or fiberglass..) I'm wery happy with it. Looks as agressive as I wanted it to do.

I love this sort of stuff!

Is the airdam a 1-off or will you be offering them??

Ron

I have the plug I made it out of in the garage..

Got the pictures of my new wheels now. Looks good I think.

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For the planned Nurburgring trip in late may, I'm working on this. Trying to become a friend of the mill..

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Made some changes to the air-dam to house the front indicators. Painted it a thin layer of black to see if I want to go further with the cars present "GTS" paint scheme. Will need to let it in for a few days I think. What do you think? Have it black, and paint the lower body black too, or go for an all blue color that I think is very nice?

The blue color I have bought is this Lambo color. Afraid I wont be able to have it repainted before the start of the season here.

Just found out that the car originally was white as I shined up the aera under the front hood.

The new front wheels on.

Fits nice.

Rear will need to go out about 1,5".

As the wheels was of, I got to take a closer look for the first time of the cars underside. Inside the wheelhousings it looked much better than hoped for, and extremely much better than expected for a car as old as this. Wery solid and sound for a untuched original car. Happy about that. Being that it have been used sparsely in San Diego since new might have something to do with that.

Facing front in the right rear wheelhousing:

Rearward:

Forward front right:

As asked in the other tread about the wheels, they was redone by: http://www.weldcraftwheels.com/
James there is to this point in my moneyspending car-years one of the guys that have at every request from me gone to the greatest lenght to fulfill my wishes. So, I can easily recomend him to you all
If I'm not recaling to much wrong, I payed like $600 to have the fronts done 1" narrower, and the rears 2" wider to 11". Chose to have this done since I like the look of the wheels wery much. The wheels are real Ford SVO-wheels. Not copys.

Here is one in "full figure".

One with the air-dam mocked up. Will do some minor work on it before paint hopefully next week.

Ordered the spacerkit today. Will help the rear look so much better from all other angels than straight from the side.

Here it runs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilnhtp4_NNs

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

It's only the angle. I got apr. 3" of clarence..

Door done. Now clearcoat.

Getting there.

Now the funs begin. Putting on the little bits, as markers and so on

I really like the color. Look forward to seeing some pics when its all back together.

Blaine

I liked orange, but now I like Lambo Blue!! Very very nice!

Looking GREAT!!

Ron

Very nice choice. Looking great. Keep the pics coming.

Kelly

Puttting on the NEW rear lenses and the cleaned logos makes so much for the looks. Cant have shabby parts on the new paint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxxsTsRtuYA

Next item to put on the car. Delivered to UPS today. A good old Hall 180.

Looks nice and I love the sound at 5500 rpms! Be sure you put up a decklid heat-shield on stand-off mounts before running them hard. It's possible to CHAR paint in two spots on the decklid about a foot in dia on each side, from the heat coming off those pipes!

Looking great! What an awesome car

I've got those headers too.(a later version) I think that the only solution to them is to get then cermacoated. This way it is possible to run a modified trunk liner without it catching fire!

...ask me how I know!

Something says me that your trunk got a bit TOO hot?

How can you tell?

If you are running a little lean those headers will glow red?

Started work on the bracket to hold the silencers.

I'm not sure if I'm satisfied with this piece that holds the clamp. Will finnish it up and see. Will at least weld shut the hole in the back.

Decided it was good enough, and polished it. Now, it seems like I will need to polish a few more items in the enginecompartment to match this piece.

Started work on another piece my car really don't need, but I want..

Pic from my mobil, so not to good.