72 Restomod clubracer build

[bdigel]

This is amazing! I am particularly interested in how the rear wheel well is bridged to the flares and any duct work that goes back there. Thanks again for posting- feel like I'm a fly on the wall!

thanks Peter ! there wont be any duct's in the panels and the interior liner of the fenders won't be all that exciting, essentially it will be a sheet of aluminum pop riveted to the old metal inner fender to the fiberglass exterior
stay tuned .

Thanks to Mario at VSR I got my rear wing today ! a very nice piece

 

[deQuincey]

so nice, i would like to have one as a beast twin of my street car ;-)

 

[Crime Dog]

Hood

I've been interested in seeing how your hood looks, and what you are going to have to do to make it look right. I think yours is from MrGlassCars, as is mine. Mine is actually kinda concave when you sit it on the car, so I guess I'm going to have to support it up in the middle off of the strut tower brace, and hold it down at the corners with the hood pins to make it look right. Probably not that bad a condition at speed, since the hood is so thin.

 

[bdigel]

I've been interested in seeing how your hood looks, and what you are going to have to do to make it look right. I think yours is from MrGlassCars, as is mine. Mine is actually kinda concave when you sit it on the car, so I guess I'm going to have to support it up in the middle off of the strut tower brace, and hold it down at the corners with the hood pins to make it look right. Probably not that bad a condition at speed, since the hood is so thin.

I will probably reinforce mine by expoxying in some sort of reinforcement on the bottom side of the hood , to give it some structure .

The Guys at the body shop made some great progress this week, 3 of the flares are now permanently mounted and smoothed in , they also started mocking in the front spoiler , its really exciting to see the progress on the exterior of the car

the driver side fender glued in place with the special expoxy .

the driver side quarter ready for the flair to be mounted , the rust repaired, the wheel cut out and everything all smoothed out .

the pass. side flares mounted and smoothed in

a shot of the rear

the front spoiler getting mocked up

 

[Peter Coomaraswamy]

When are you giving tours? I think it would be cool to invite any forum members to visit on a particular Saturday, you see I'm not very shy or subtle, which I think is a quality although that sentiment is not shared by all- I might volunteer to provide beer We, of course, would have to be allowed to take pictures and we could all have dinner at your house! Sound good? We're all just waiting for you to pick a date

 

[rsporsche]

When are you giving tours? I think it would be cool to invite any forum members to visit on a particular Saturday, you see I'm not very shy or subtle, which I think is a quality although that sentiment is not shared by all- I might volunteer to provide beer We, of course, would have to be allowed to take pictures and we could all have dinner at your house! Sound good? We're all just waiting for you to pick a date

i can assure you that the atlanta crowd will all drive their coupes to watch
Brendan's inaugural race here in atlanta. we will be there to wish him across the finish line in first place ... and drink with him afterwards.

 

[bdigel]

When are you giving tours? I think it would be cool to invite any forum members to visit on a particular Saturday, you see I'm not very shy or subtle, which I think is a quality although that sentiment is not shared by all- I might volunteer to provide beer We, of course, would have to be allowed to take pictures and we could all have dinner at your house! Sound good? We're all just waiting for you to pick a date

I welcome that , that sounds like a good time !!
Ill have to have a unveiling party !

 

[rsporsche]

i went by RWL today + met Brendan. truly a great guy. the car is out at the paint shop, but i saw the engine + its perfect. i also saw the e12 that he put an s54 into. quite the car. there were a lot of interesting vintage P cars in the shop - including a nice red soft rear window 911s targa.

he handed me some glass + light parts off of the coupe being restomoded into a great race car. when somebody on the forum puts up a request looking for a part ... and if i have that part that came from his car ... it will be sent to the forum member for just the shipping cost. my stipulation is to continue Brendan's generosity - that these parts are never to be sold - only put on your coupe or given to somebody else to put on their coupe.

cheers
scott

 

[bdigel]

Thanks Scott, Nice to meet you, hope to meet more of you guys sometime

got up to the body shop this afternoon here's one quick shoot of the progress

Ill post more later

 

[Crime Dog]

Wing Shot

I dig how parallel everything looks from the rear - wing, rollcage crossbars, etc. Nice work, Brendan, SyncroDesignWorks, etc!

 

[Peter Coomaraswamy]

It even lines up with the garage door! Niiice!

 

[bdigel]

the rest of the body shop pictures from last week

the pass side panels all smoothed in ready for paint

fitting in the grill

detail shots of the wing

 

[Kizilsakal]

Terrible, Terrible.... Such a waste of time and money...
shame it turned out like this..
I can take it off your hands if you want to save yourself from this endless pit..

 

[Crime Dog]

Looking great, BD! What did you/they use to fasten the wing uprights to the trunk deck and the wing? I think I have the same pieces (from Coupe Guy?), but they have no holes or threaded inserts. Thanks. Mark Mc

 

[alanmcg]

since you now have that cool cut-out in the side for the exhaust, are you going to fill in the stock cutout in the rear? would look really clean from the rear.

 

[bdigel]

since you now have that cool cut-out in the side for the exhaust, are you going to fill in the stock cutout in the rear? would look really clean from the rear.

ha , that's funny , the body guy and I were just talking about that yesterday ! great minds think alike , that's exactly what will be done, maybe even this week.

they had some rough weather this week in north Ga and power was in a nd out , no the less the gang at Custom color works got some more work done .David got the last panel on and has started to smooth it in . Its been a lot of work to get the panels to fit and look right, But David has really done from what I can tell a fantastic job. watching these guys work has been fun . Its a real art form . I was horrified at how poorly the panels fit when I placed them on the car my self and truly thought , "this car is going to look like **** " Dave and Andy quickly calmed my concerns , and basically said all kits are like this , and this one actually isn't that bad . even the good parts require some mesageing , and Dave has really brought it all together

Dave admires his work

glamour shots of the front fender

rear quarter is on, and getting smoothed in

getting close to being ready for primer

 

[bdigel]

Sent the front suspension out to get powder coated, along with a few other pieces. Im really excited at how they turned out!

the entire front suspension layed out including the subframe

from the side

detail shot of the control arms

close up of the shifter plate

 

[Peter Coomaraswamy]

We are all so child-like when it comes to these cars, I think 02 owners are similar too but not sure of any other "marque" that elicits such boyish mentality. We all are BEING young, not just trying to be.

Great fun!

 

[bdigel]

QUOTE=alanmcg;130758]since you now have that cool cut-out in the side for the exhaust, are you going to fill in the stock cutout in the rear? would look really clean from the rear.[/QUOTE]

got all the holes filled in , also notice the car exterior is in primer !
Ill post up more pictures later

 

[m5bb]

Yea.......................

Lookin good!