Tim's 69

Post by **goichi1** » 02 Dec 2008 14:20

Man, that is nice, I was also wondering what that would cost to do, I really wanted to do that, but when I started in on the SR20 swap all that went out the window, and I threw away most of the original brackets and things which was really stupid, never know when you are gonna start another project and could use those...I am sure that is gonna be a really nice resto....very nice!!

old510ballz · Post by **old510ballz** » 02 Dec 2008 21:38

Those shiny new/old parts are impressive. Cant wait to see it all come together.
The bar has just been raised

Yellowcar · Post by **Yellowcar** » 03 Dec 2008 08:10

Thanks. The car is taking long enough, it better look nice

The funny thing is I am going to end up replacing a lot of the hardware anyway because I want to use stainless in a lot of places. I wanted to be sure that I had clean bolts for the things I don't replace though.
I am also replacing all the lock nuts with new ones just to be safe.

I found a local place (Production Plating) that does the plating. It was $500 for everything.
It is all Cad plated, some flat and some shiny just to be different.

I actually installed something last night! I put the steering column and steering box in the car and filled the steering box with new Redline lube. I ordered all new steering components and ball joints so I can get the FT suspension in soon. I got New ground control camber plates too so I can put the plates under the strut tower and not cut it up.
I do still need to get the TC rods, control arms and Rod end tie rods though.

Then I can get the motor in so I can build an oil pan and modify the header to fit.

I also got all the pieces (I hope) that I need to plumb the brakes so I can get going on that too.

Yellowcar · Post by **Yellowcar** » 01 Jan 2009 22:36

Installed the rear suspension, diff and brakes This week as well as rebuilding and installing the the wiper linkage with a rebuilt wiper motor. I also went through the front struts and brakes and installed them with the new camber plates. Then I pulled the heater apart cleaned and painted everything with one coat of POR 15 and one coat of POR 15 chassis coat and got the heater core rebuilt. Oh, and installed the NOS door handles so I don't ahve to reach into the door and work the latch anymore.

Yellowcar · Post by **Yellowcar** » 01 Jan 2009 22:37

more

Post by **goichi1** » 01 Jan 2009 23:06

WOW! looks really nice! can't wait to see more!! very nice!!

clean71 · Post by **clean71** » 02 Jan 2009 08:15

more pics Tim,it looks great just from the pics you have taken

Post by **duke** » 02 Jan 2009 14:03

So damn nice. I can't wait for more progress pictures.

yenpit · Post by **yenpit** » 03 Jan 2009 15:14

Looks killer! Love the detail................

supra510 · Post by **supra510** » 03 Jan 2009 15:17

Nice and shiny, it's like the opposite of my car. Nice work.

Post by **bertvorgon** » 03 Jan 2009 15:51

I like your steering box brace, that is the stuff that really starts to make the handling "feel" difference.

Yellowcar · Post by **Yellowcar** » 04 Jan 2009 20:29

Thanks for the nice comments

The steering brace is from Datsport, their two piece brace.
All the steering parts will be new and I am using rod ends instead of tie rod ends so that should help the steering feel too. The steering should be done by now but UPS is way behind with the snow we had (and it is snowing again right now)
No shortage of things to work on though and everything seems to take forever to do. Today I cleaned up and installed the drain hoses that run from the cowl to the fender. They actually cleaned up better that I thought they would and with a little solvent and heat they softened up so I could get then to seal well.
I also tried to coat my rocker panels with anti-corrosion treatment but the special gun that you use didn't work very well.
Nothing would come out of the gun then it shot about a cup of the solution out of the vent hole (and all over me) then promptly shot the rest of the quart into 1/2 of one rocker. Pretty disappointing how much the whole setup cost...
Then I spent some time working on the heater and dash. I finished trinning the dash structure around the roll bar. then worked on getting the heater to fit around the roll bar. I ended up modifying the air intake box that runs from the cowl to the heater box.
I also managed to get the pedals installed with the master cylinders and then made the lines that run to the reservoirs.

Post by **thisismatt** » 04 Jan 2009 21:05

Yellowcar wrote:
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Nice! That's an interesting dummy pedal, haha

Post by **S15DET** » 05 Jan 2009 09:42

Where do you plan to mount your reservoirs? I might be moving mine soon because I seem to keep getting air into the clutch master.

Yellowcar · Post by **Yellowcar** » 06 Jan 2009 17:55

BTW the braided lines in the brake picture are the feeds from the brake reservoirs to the master they are not the actual brake plumbing. The brakes will be plumbed with Stainless hard lines

S15DET wrote:Where do you plan to mount your reservoirs? I might be moving mine soon because I seem to keep getting air into the clutch master.

I don't have a picture of the reservoirs right now but Byron has a good pic of his setup in the bronze project thread, mine are in a similar location

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