I entered this burn out comp today, knowing that I would not win, but for the hell of it and to get a better seat to watch. I made it to the next round but it was "go till you blow" and well this is my daily driver and blowing my tires up was not an option. On a brighter note, I got to drive my car home were as many others did not.
]]>Well lets see it started out first by running over my cell phone. I guess it fell out of my pocket while i was getting into my car. Then while traveling at 55 mph on my way to work my hood flew up hit my windsheld, tore the crap out of the back of the cowl, Put a nice deep crease in the area just behind the hood. Destroyed the cowl into many peices. Bent the windsheild wipers. Then once I get to work I locked my keys in the car. what a day.
Also added some stainless steel hose sleeves and cleaned up the wiring in the engine bay.
]]>About 30 hours of total sanding and rebuilding the hood, Fiberglass, Body filler, 4 coats of primer, one coat of sealer, 4 coats of jet black, and 5 coats of clear. Wet sanded 3 times, dry sanded I dont remember how times. But this is the hood that was on YSOFFCER's Car. The Pictures kind of suck It Looks better in person.
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Original 140mph gauge faces.
I took the old door panels apart and used them as template. Easier said than done. I reused the aluminum upper peices and the window sill molding. Everything else was new.
The originals window sill moldings were stapled in. I used small set screws then used a cut off wheel to shave the excess. I also used the same typed screw and process to attach the fiber board to the aluminum. The original peice was pressed and glued in. I used 1/8 fiber board and used a Roto Zip rotery saw to cut out the peices and then a Dremel tool to smooth the edges.
Before Old door panel. After with new door panel
Completed door panel
Carpet was dyed black.
]]>Alright finaly got the new tranny in and it runs great. However I have run into a bit of a problem. You see the new linkage that the shifter cable attaches too has bends in the portion that is conected to the transmission. The old trannys was straight. My problem is that the cable will not go far enough forward to engage park. So as of right now when the shifter reads P, it is really in reverse and so forth. Now if I wanted to roll in a hoopty I would not care, but that is not the case. There is plenty of cable left, just no way to adjust it the inch forward it needs to go. As you are looking at it now it is neutral. I need to either one get a new shifter cable, which on I have no clue where to start with that, or find a way to extend the one I have now. I put this out to all of you because there might be an Idea that I have not thought of. Now we thought of taken the old linkage and putting on the new tranny, however I would of still run into the same problem. This AOD shift linkage lever stops at vertical which is 1st then moves forward, all the way forward being park which is close to being horizontal. My old tranny vertical was neutral then moving it forward you had reverse then park. If you moved it the other way then obouisly you have all the other gears. any imput would be great. thanks
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