[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by GySgtFrank

Done filling the extraneous holes and doing the rough grind on the new front frame structure. I was asked for pictures so here they are, you folks are gluttons for pictures.

It doesn't look that much different from the previous pictures, but it does look a lot cleaner than before in person. I'll go to my orbital sander and paper before I lay down the primer. No sense getting too carried away until I have it closed all the way up. Some of the welds were damn ugly, but I have most of the ones that will show in the engine bay cleaned up. The ones in the wheel wells wil get a good coating of primer, seam sealer, and undercoating. Again no sense getting carried away tidying those up too much.

Looks really fucking great man. Awesome job! For damn sure.

After the primer goes down are you going to skim coat the entire bay with some plastic and then sand it down before more primer and then some sanding and then some plastic and then some primer and then some primer surface and then some more sanding and then some primer and then some color and then some clear and some clear and some more clear?

Originally Posted by 2gslse

Looking good gunny but are you going to have enough room for a turbo in there?

There's always room for one of those

Originally Posted by GySgtFrank

Not sure. I've only lost about two inches of room across the engine bay. I've been trying my best not to encroach on the space for engine stuffs, but some compromises had to be made.

Depending on where those 2" are will determine how bad it will be to get a little turbo in there....

Originally Posted by GySgtFrank

I've actually been really interested to see how AJ's screw style supercharger worked out for him. By the time the procrastinator general gets it on there though I'll probably be pushing up daisies.

He's doing a blow through right? How hard would it be to keep the damn thing FI?

Originally Posted by GySgtFrank

Just got back from scoping out the salvage yard. I need to replace the sheetmetal structure that I removed to put in the new spring perches and framing. Trying to build something that looks half assed decent will be a royal b****. Looking at the metal inner fenders from a 1967 Country Squire wagon. They were still made with real metal and appear to be about the same gauge as my original inner structure. It would save me a ton of metal forming work for 40 - 50 bucks. The stamped metal would also look a lot cleaner than my hacked and welded original plan. It will still need to be cut to size and welded in though to make sure the unibody structure remains at least as strong as the original. They have lots of cool stuff over there, I need more money, and time.

That right there is a great idea...