BlueAKSSS Posted October 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 Well I cleaned up the inner quarter panel area, wire wheeled down to bare metal but I left some of the original undercoating that seemed to be in good shape still. Then I painted the POR 15 all around inside the inner quarter area to seal it from rusting ever again. I'm still waiting on the inner tail panel/tail fin piece to replace the badly damaged one on my car. You can see I didn't paint or clean that part as it will be removed. Here's some pics: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted October 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 The new tail panel corner/tail fin corner peice came in today via UPS. Here's a pic, the old corner will be pulled off soon and this installed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted November 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 MAJOR UPDATE!!! The passenger side quarter panel is installed!!! I've just been smamped with projects lately and the 57 had been on the back burner for a while so tonight I decided to just go for it and an afternoon and night of work turned into a great install on the quarter panel. Heres the pics! Enjoy. Top seam came out very nice. In this picture you can see where I had to section the front corner due to the differences between the hardtop quarter panel and the post quarter panel. Overall it came out pretty good but it needs a bit of body work in that area to make it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procelll Posted November 16, 2011 Report Share Posted November 16, 2011 It's definitely coming along slowly, but its definitely looking better.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outragis Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Very nice job, should be an awesome car when you are done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusinsilverado Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Look's great so far. Gotta ask what's this product you keep mentioning PRO 15 ? It stop's rust for good ???????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilEz02 Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 to much time on the truck? wheres another update matt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted January 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 to much time on the truck? wheres another update matt? Haha sorry I kinda forgot about this thread! I'll copy over some updates, thanks for reminding me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted January 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 (edited) Started building the rotisserie! Heres all the pics! More to come but the welder ran out of gas so have to wait until monday to get it refilled. Crossmember I got from a nice guy that has a 55 2dr sedan ls2 project he's working on. Decided to remove the headliner today.... Found a mouse nest up there! Edited January 5, 2012 by Matt* (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted January 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 The Rotisserie is finished finally! There is a large pipe that goes between the two stands that you can see to the left. We rolled the chassis out shortly after this pic, had to take the rear tires off and roll it out on the jack... Another awesome score was I bought myself a new stainless side trim set for the car the Ecklers on one of there 20% off sales so I couldn't pass it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted January 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 Well I decided it was time to test the rotisseries ability to do what its suppose to do and it worked! One snag was that the car runs into the center connection pipe piece. I could modify it again but it seems to work okay as is. Anyways I'm super excited! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted January 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 (edited) I got an awesome Christmas gift! A complete rack and pinion steering change over kit! Here's the picture of just the rack its got everything else too in another box! Decided to sand blast the entire underside of the car, the firewall, inside the trunk and the window channels! It was a huge project but the pressure pot sand blaster got it done. The paint booth turned into a beach by the time I was done. Blasted on it for hours and got it pretty nice. Here's some pics Edited January 5, 2012 by Matt* (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted January 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 Got some more done on the car! After many many hours of cleaning sand out of the rocker panels and such I finally was able to get some primer sprayed over the nicely sand blasted metal under the car. Next I will start on the body work on the quarters and prep the body for paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Man this car would be cool if it was 1 year older. Matt Great job. It's coming along nicely. Big steps but it seems to take forever doesn't it? Nice work. I'm still cracking along on my 56. Its got me crazy excited but still slow going. I talked to the Turbo guys down here about my twin set up. They said 800 HP pretty easy. Keep up the good work. Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAKSSS Posted January 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Well big update and sort of a jump in the process, I know I missed posting some steps over here, but check out the full build thread on Trifive.com Saturday evening we got everything in the final sanding stages and decided to start painting. Ended up staying up until about 4:45am painting. The color I choose is a GM color called Dark Spiral Grey Metallic. Its a pretty cool color I think and will really look good on the car once all the trim is installed. Anyways here's some pictures. The quarter panels have been wet sanded and buffed (except for the center section where the trim goes) and the roof is going to be wet sanded and buffed today. Its hard to see in the pictures what the aculey color looks like because of refelctions and such. The roof shots show the color best. Anyways enjoy! This pic shows the color the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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