well, i thought since i am nearing the end, i'd start a thread for my car. "seems like the thing to do". a little background first, i bought the car in 1997, my first year inside the Marine Corps. I started the mods when i went to Iraq for the first time in 2004. I then finished most of the drivetrain off my second trip to Iraq in 2005. Then i moved to michigan for recruiting duty in 2006 and it has been on hold. Just up until recently i have begun to get things going again. After the body is done, i will move onto the interior which will stay close to stock. Then some track times. so i hope you all enjoy the pics, feel free to say what you like, and what you don't.

 

more

 

more

 

yet some more

 

you guessed it, more

 

nice build man!!...its coming along very nice...what r the specs on the motor?..Thank you for all u are doing for us in Iraq!

nevermind i see the specs now....btw..nice wheels

 

last for now




and the new seats to go in with the new carpet.

 

motor is a 406 sbc, with nitrided crank, eagle h-beam rods 6", mahle forged pistons, solid roller cam with .510 lift int/exh, harland sharp roller rockers, crane roller lifters, holley contender intake,(might switch to rpm air gap) holley 750, msd ignition, heddman longtubes modified to fit for manual trans. compression sits at 11 to 1. hp=525+ ???

 

a little more done

 

expected to be all in primer by monday, with block sanding on tuesday and start spraying paint by wednesday. i'll make a trip to get all in primer pics and then paint. holy cow, i didn't realize how much weatherstripping cost. i ordered all new t-top, inner door, and outer door seals. plus i got the clear side markers and new front turn signal lenses. i will be polishing my tail lights tomorrow. after 11 yrs, its finally all getting done.

 

did a little polishing on my taillights. i used 3m plastic polish kit, which had the sanding discs. and them used meguires plastic polish. i will mostly likely hit them up again but they turned out pretty good for now. here is one not polished



and here is one polished and the other not



and the close up of the one polished

 

and here is both polished



tell me what ya'll think.. i think she is coming together quite nicely.

 

Looks great, can't wait to see it after paint. I haven't been here for a while but that's the first 3rd Gen I've seen with those wheels. They look right at home with your car.

 

paint is starting to get laid on tonight. i will have some pics of the car in full primer to post tonight. hopefully i can take pics of complete paint by wednesday. stay tuned.

 

i polished the third brake light also, it came out really good




some more body work complete

 

 

Look like its coming along nicely! Are you going back with red paint?

 

ppg wild fire red w/single black stripe down the center starting at the hood.

 

thinking of switching wheels in the future, either of the following two. which do you guys think would look better? remember car is going to be red with single black racing stripe.

) 18x8.5" & (2) 19x10"

Corvette C6 ZR1



Rear 18 x 10.5 56mm / Front 17 x 9.5 54mm offset

 

I like what you've got on there now but I think the black ones would look great with the black stripe.

 

Looks great. I like how its coming along.

 

finally some paint.

 

some more

 

a couple more

 

last one till the hood is done.


hood is getting painted tonight. next two days will be all buffing. some of the rear shots are only 1 buff. he is planning on buffing the whole car twice. car looks absolutely beautiful. can't wait to get it into the sun. so......what do you all think.

 

looks Slick. I like it and it looks awesome.

 

car is coming out real good but one thing i dont like is the difrent grafix on the car

 

diff ground effect?, yeah i would agree, u've got 91-92 in the front and pre-90 on the doors......

however, that paint looks awesome, love what you're doing with the car.
cant wait till it comes out of paint.
thanks for all the pics,
BTW, what seats are those???

and again thanks for your hard work abroad

 

well you see, what happened was i ordered the correct front ground effect but was shipped the wrong one. i ordered from hawks....i was in iraq and my father in law had already put it on the car. so to send it back and deal with that pain, i said forget it. plus i actually like the different angle the front rake is on the 91-92 gfx. as for the rear vents on the chin spoiler......i like them, but if i switch the side rockers then i have to also change the rear bumper. i like it the way it is, just a little different then everyone else.

 

the seats i bought in cali from a friend of my father in law, i have absolutely no idea what brand. i paid 200 for the set. i think they are the summit racing leather seats...but not for sure. and thanks for the thanks......i might be headed back over to the desert for my third time within the next year. don't know yet on that. semper fi

 

lol thats what i meant

 

and now....the hood! the hood by the way has not been buffed/cut yet.

 

a couple more side and nose views








so do what do you guys think?? stripe a little different, good or bad? either way it ain't changing but still like to know. no more pics until it's completely done and all lights back on assembled and final buff.

 

i love the hood stripe!!!!!
good job

 

Damn... would love to have that guy do a paint job for me... I mean wow.

 

ok, so now i am getting ready to order new carpet, headliner, door panels, upper door trim, swaybars, emblems....$1200 or so. i will have the car back by friday and take pics of the interior on sat before teardown and after. then i should have all new interior by middle next week. i didn't realize i needed so much for the interior until i painted the car..
it made everything else look like crap!! does anyone know where i can get the black decal that covers the third brake light?? i think it might look good, or be over kill. hmmm...... what do you guys think?

 

Get one that says IROC-Z in the correct font. Looks great back there. Too bad I cant' remember the name of the website that makes them...

 

That thing looks amazing! I love the paint scheme!

 

well the interior is going to take 2-4 wks to get here. but i did get the nose/z28 emblems and also the spohn rear sway bar with drop brackets.


for some reason the pics of the z28 emblems wont load up. they are silver and should look good. i should be picking the car up tomorrow so i'll post pics of it with everything back on. stay tuned.

 

ok, so here they are in silver. i think everything is coming nicely together.

 

Absolutely stunning! THat car is looking very very good!

 

well got a few things back together. still needs one side of the weatherstripping put back in. should be completely done/clean ready to pickup by monday. i also recieved the new carpet today. i will try and put that in next weekend.


my 406 emblem on the cowl

 

 

WOW!!! Absolutely amazing brother. I really like how it turned out, can't wait to see it once the interior is finished.

BTW, thank you for your service and welcome home brother. I served in the ARMY and I know of all the hard work that you and your FAMILY have put in to those tours of service.

 

well i pick her up today. i will get the wheel wells painted back to black and take some pics of her outside. maybe post tonight or tomorrow. plus some interior shots for the before look, and then the after, once i am done putting in all the new interior pieces.

 

Dave, if your painting the wheels black you have got to put a red pinstripe on the lip! That would look really KILLER!!!

 

i'm not painting the wheels, but the wheel wells. i think that would be different though, black rim with red outline. however, it might look to importish. chrome rims are in the future. just don't know exactly when though.

 

Man this is really comming alon good.Very nice

 

That will teach me to try and WORK, and play on the internet!! I don't think that looks import, but more exotic than anything.

 

i'm at work and on, but i get more down time. military...u know!