Interior when I got the car:


interior now:



i have new carpet, 93 camaro seats, 98 trans am console, and all the plastics are being painted black with krylon fusion.

 

Motor when I got the car:

now:

in progress:


i am repainting the engine bay black, hopefully on saturday. building of the engine will also be done sometime this weekend. the motor will be chevy orange-red.

 

just put the exhaust on the other day

 

Good job so far. Are you doing the entrie process out doors? I did my 85 like that 2 winters ago and it wasnt fun at all

 

Diabolical - what kind of exhaust are you running and what is the size of the pipe?

 

keep up the good work man!

 

yeah, unfortunately our garage is filled with old masonry supplies and pretty much everything except cars i wish i had a garage, but i don't, so outdoors it is.
i'm running edelbrock headers, high flow cat, flowmaster muffler. the pipe is 3".

 

painted the engine bay today, hard to tell from the pics, but it's flat black.

 

Hmm, I'm not seeing a hood..

 

rofl i had that coming to me. i have 2 hoods leaning against my garage, probably neither one will go on either. the one that came with the car is all banged up in the front, then i took a chance on one on ebay, picked it up and noticed that corner was bent, so i'm not sure if i'll use that one either. maybe i will just go hoodless until next summer

 

I know how it is doin everythin outside...We have a huge 2 bay shop and my dad keeps it full with his stuff and cars. He's like you can have that fenced in area back there...So I do my motor swap outside in the wet ground! I paint my car in the driveway...Ugh! It sucks!

 

yeah, working on the car outside sucks, my driveway isn't even paved where the car is, it's just dirt. every time i dropped something, i gotta search for 10 minutes cuz it's hiding in the dirt, then i have to go clean it off again. plus it sucks cuz i get home from work at 5:30, it starts to get dark around 7:30, so that only gives me a window of like 2 hours to work on it. it sucks, cuz i have so much detailing left to do before we drop in the motor, and i have like no time to do it. painting the whole car outside must really suck, hopefully when it comes time to paint my car, the guy will have room in his garage to paint it.

 

Just wait until it gets colder IMO working on a car outside in 30 or lower temps is not fun.

 

I worked on mine During a Thunderstorm and got shocked...And pulled many hours, Including finally pulling the old motor out, With a huge spotlight. That helps with heat too!

 

an excellent example of how wonderful it is working outside. we're painting stuff today, pulleys, brackets, waterpump, bellhousing, etc. got everything painted, laid across the back of a car, on the picnic table, etc. then comes the rain, not really rain, just like a 5 minute shower. just enough to get all the **** i just painted wet. not sure of the damage, but i'm hoping that the paint was dry enough by then. i was in a frenzy to get everything inside, so i didn't get a chance to check it.

 

maybe next time you'll stick a few posts in the ground around the picnick table or whatever and have a tarp ready if the weather is unpredictable where you are.