ttt123

Well like the title says, started small and as usual its turned into more. I have two threads going. one for the rear-end upgrade I'm doing and one for the wide body I made.. seems a little selfish to have a few threads going for the same car so I'm just going to post all my updates and complete build in this thread. if you want a recap of what I've done so far(I'll post a couple pics from the two other threads in here) you can check the links otherwise stay tuned to see where this goes

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c4-t...nance-etc.html

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c4-g...or-my-car.html

the first three pics of the wide body I made. As far as what I've done to the rear-end so far. parts have been pulled, blasted, cleaned and painted. for this initial phase I purchased and planned on just doing yukon 3:54 gears, complete poly bushing kit, upgraded the fuel pump, B&M shift kit and kyb suspension.

with the car being pulled apart as far as it was.... I just kept going and decided to repaint(sapphire metallic blue, already had a gallon in my barn screaming for me to use it) and rebuild the motor with some tasteful upgrades. engine will get new cam, worked heads and intake(ported and bigger valves) pcm tune, long tube headers and electric water pump.... oh and air foil for an extra 15hp

I should be painting by this weekend.

Raidmagic

Yep, the curse of all car guys. The "whileimatits"

hcbph

How many cars do you have torn apart there? The wife would absolutely kill me if I had more than one apart at any given time.

ttt123

Well im not one to have open ended projects but my daughter drove the vette and a brake line popped and when i got under there to check it out.... I seen to much stuff that needed updating. I cant stand to have a vehicle in that condition so here i am.

The car to the left is a friends and getting an extremely built supercharged 3.8 motor(done ill try to attach a pic) the blue one on the rotisserie is mine and its getting a 3.4l turbo. Im putting that one back together now. It will have a full lamborghini diablo interior as well. And then i have a one off kit car(for daily driving) im building that will blow the doors off all three of these car that looks very similar to lightening mcqween from "cars"

ttt123

so i finally got the finished shaping of the flares. needs a little feathering glaze but for the most part this is it.

bogus

I like the flare! Looks real nice!

Tommycourt

Well at least this time you're not busy showing us your toes!!!!! LAUGHING!!!

ttt123

Thanks, personally i love em i cant wait to get it back together and see the tires on there. It was a bit of work but totally worth it.

Hey now... Those were some sexy toes lol

ttt123

anybody have a part number for the "preload pinions shims" for a d36 rear. i'm hung up on putting my rearend back together and i cant seem to find these. the axle shims are no problem but cant find the pinions shims

vl5150

Very nice flare in the rear. That's certainly an area the stylists could have done better job on. The front has such a nice shape and the rear doesn't compare.

ttt123

Ya that was pretty much my thoughts as well.

Brian

ttt123

well i put some color on it today. really hard to get a good pic of the paint color but i did take a close up so you can see the metallic kind of the color very bummed out about how my paint went on. I've painted quite a few cars and i just could not get this paint to not come out clumpy very disappointing. anyone know if letting the paint sit for about a year does anything to it. it was a never opened can and there was no clumps in it but it just did not want to spray smooth for me, i strained it and it look fine.... anyway

GKK

Did you use the correct reducer for the ambient air temps you were spraying in?...Also, paint material has a shelf life after being mixed and can go bad even after never being opened.

ttt123

Ya im kinda thinking it went bad. I still have the other parts to paint and im going to have a lot of wet sanding

ttt123

got some clear coat on. i still need to wet sand and wheel it but its coming along pretty good. i'm really loving the metallic

finally got my rear end done as well so this weekend i will be starting to put it back together

MavsAK

That is seriously amazing skill there.

Looking fantastic, have you picked your wheels out yet?

GM should have made all of our cars like this!

ttt123

Thanks, im liking it.

I have not picked out wheels yet. Corvette rims all look the same. Zo6 style or style on my car.... Im just not liking the selection. I did talk to a few wheel makers and i just cant justify paying a minimum of $2800 just for the rims for a $10k car. Im leaning toward buying a non vette style i like and have it widened. Plenty of 11" rims i like that i would only have to add an inch to.

Got some stuff put on this morning... For those who have do e these kind of projects you know how good i feel about just getting the gas tank back on lol also got the underbidy painted black now as well.

ttt123

so my wife says i'm the king of goofy faces...i dont know what she's talking about.

so a shiny part came in today and me is happy happy happy... oh the sparkle of new shine

ttt123

anyone using obx headers?

383vett

Nice job on the flares.