engine bay smoothing...
 

I've already started welding and grinding...man what have I got myself into lol...lemme know if u want pics...

Of course we do!!!

Would love to see the progress...

Here's a couple in-the-rough pics...the welding part is cool, but the grinding parts sucks :( I was gonna just weld ALL the holes on fender aprons but I decided to drill out the spot welds and replace them(after like 4 hours of fabing!) Anyways lemme. Know if you have questions and ill keep posting pics as I go...

looks good so far.

Well all WAS going well until today when I was welding on the firewall and totally forgot to prep the interior...needles to say it caught on fire and burned up my carpet and engine harness...fu$k! Thank god I had a fire exstinguisher...wasn't too badbut enough to make say every cuss word in the book... :( but ima keep at it until it beautiful and smooth. Post more pics...feel free to leave some inspiration cause im hurting right now

Ouch.

Moooooore holes...everywhere I look! It will all be worth it...I hope! Lol

Got the passenger side valley along the frame rail boxed it. The sway bar pracket was drilled out, welded shut, and ground smooth...as well as the front core support where the hood latch and radiator attaches... BIG HOLES lol

Driver side frame rail boxed in and filled...waiting for the smoothed fender aprons to come. Was gonna make my own but F that...lol

Here are a couple of my engine compartment. The holes have been pretty much filled in already and already painted. The only thing I need to do is redo the paintjob in there so it looks a lot cleaner.


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Nahhh it looks great... when the motor Goin in?

I am not in that big of rush to get the motor built yet. So it is prolly going to be around the beginning of next year. I am having a professional builder build it for me since I am going with a 506 BBF with twin 90mm turbos that I am estimating to provide around 1,000-1,500 hp.

Sounds alot like a strip only build...good luck on streets with that beast lol

She will prolly be mainly strip use but I will still enjoy her on the street. I will also try not to make the little tuner guys cry to often either lol:devil:

About 85% done...just got my smooth fender apron from late model restoration... got one welded in what do you guys think?

That looks good BUT how thick is that bondo on there?

Its only a feather coat...everything is welded shut...bondo is only to pick up the hits and lows... no thicker than a 1/8th inch probably less...too thick? How did you do yours?

I didnt do mine but I will be stripping everything off and redoing it.

The only reason why I asked is cuz I do autobody and paint and it looked really thick at the hole. A 1/8th in thick is prolly the max I would go if it couldnt be smoothed out more. You really dont want to be going any thicker than that.

Oh and bondo only pics up the lows not the highs. :nice:

Yeah I'm new to do ing bodywork... but I plan on prime it in yellow and then priming it in black so highs show yellow and lows show black... is that a good idea? The whole looks thick because I'd started to weld on it when I decided to leave it open for my aeromotive fuel lines. It's just metal I need to grind down. Any tips would be greatly appreciated