Unreal! Love the look! Looks almost Prostreet...you sure have a head turner!

 

I don't want to steal the thread but could someone tell me what light bulb that is hanging down the lowest all the way on the right? Mines currently hanging down slapping against the exhaust tip. Thanks



Nice project.

 

Flat out awesome, I love this look, very nice work!

 

Very, very nice indeed

When it's all done, contact some Corvette magazines and get it in one of them. I'll bet you thought of that already.

 

That looks like the rear side marker lamp.

 

Thanks! Makes sense now that I see the OP appears to be using LED's in the other four brake lights.

 

I'm sorry, I missed the part where you had astronaut training because that thing looks like it ought to go like a rocket............
What did you use to reinforce the rear of the bumper after you sliced all the reinforcing out of the bottom of it?

 

Thanks for all the feedback guys, it helps me feel like the stupid amount of $$$ I invested in this thing was worth it.

I tried to do a nice job documenting the build so others could see how a pro would do it (though I'm not so sure my builder was so crazy about me posting all these pics but he's )

AFCO double-adjustables here but I don't have any idea what they are set on right now, but thanks for the tip!

That was not mine, though that may happen one of these days, especially if DART comes out with their big cube LT1 block so I don't have to go forced induction! It actually seems to sound about the same to me, maybe a tad louder?

Yeah my knee slowed me way down, but in general pretty much everything has taken 5 times as long and cost twice as much as I thought. :o But she WILL be sweet when done.

Prostreet is exactly the look I wanted. That's my cup o' tea

Yes I have - once it's completely done, I'm definitely going to do that.

Yep, the LED's were in the car when I bought it, they look awesome at night, look kind of like a very bright candle is burning inside.

It will be somewhat faster just due to the ability to hook up now, and the car will be a good 400 lbs lighter believe it or not.

The bumper doesn't have a tremendous amount of reinforcing done to it. The cage runs to the back of the bumper, where it gets screwed in, also there are panels on the bottom of the car which bolt both to the cage and to channel-stock that runs along edge of the bumper - you can see how cage goes back to bumper here:



How panels on the bottom of the car bolt up:





What it looks like from rear:



There are actually quite a few more screws now because my fuel cell leaked and dripped gas all over the panels and the rear bumper got real wavy and the only solution was to put a lot more screws in it. I actually think it looks better with more screws believe it or not, looks a little more trick that way.

All that being said, I can indeed see a "slight" bit of sag in the rear when looking at the pics of the car from side, it's more noticeable in pics than in person. But it's there. Not sure if much could have been done other than put screws in the sides of the body which obviously I wasn't going to do. I think it was somewhat inevitable since the car has been back-halved. Once I get the front end back down it will be even less noticeable I think.

 

Any updates to this project?

 

Hey Rick - just saw this, have just been really, really busy (3 kids and another on the way, etc etc)

I have been working on the wiring slowly, have got the car almost completely rewired, will definitely be done with that in next few months and then it will be time for interior. Will definitely be on the streets this spring!

 

Cool project, good luck

 

Just an update on this for all the folks who followed this thread for so long . . .

Electricals are all done pretty much and I'm starting to drive the car around a bit to work out any kinks. Once I feel comfortable with all that it's time to put the interior in.

I'll be at the CF Cruise-In and the C4 Gathering though, interior or no!

 

Thank you for the update, I have been wondering about it.

J

 

Quite a project! Very impressive to say the least. Good luck with it and have a blast!

 

Thanks for the update as I have been following your build.

 

Can you tell me which Cobra seat and mounts you used?

 

Any updates?

 

Custom made mounts by my chassis builder

Seats are Cobra Misano's, 30th Anniversary edition I think it was - I bought them from Sube Sports out of SoCal

Pretty sure the pattern you see on mine (i.e. the diamond stitching) was a 1 year thing, I believe they were only making 30.

But they definitely still make the Misano's themselves.

2010 was a long year, just crazy busy with work and kids, things are finally slowing down a little and hopefully I can get this thing on the road. It's driveable right now, but still need to do the interior!

 

Way cool, first class job. If your D-44 is for sale let me know. I can do a pick-up. Thanks, Ed.

 

I was at Beech Bend Saturday. Your car actually popped into my head for a minute. Some badass cars there.