87GTS Turbo "Nemesis"

Day 19
Well today we welded and cleaned. We are preparing the car and shop for the lift so the underbody can be painted. We are trying to lift the car nearly 6 feet in the air. Hopefully next week we will be beginning the painting stages!

 

Day20
Welding, grinding and cutting all day! More to come tommorrow.

 

Day 21
We cleaned the shop, removed/broke the windsheild, and welded until I was out of wire. Avi stopped by and took a look and dropped of the last peice of the suspension I need.

 

Day22
95% of the welding is now done! All of the floorboards are welded up and the quaters are done. There is only one spot left to finish! We cleaned the windsheild area, scrubbed away more grit and grime under the hood, wire brushed the entire rear section, vacuumed, and the list goes on. 8 solid hours of work.

 

Day 23
The welding nightmare is over, finally. All the chassis welding is done! We also raised the car today and I realized how uneven the floor is. Yikes! Needless to say I didn't have the balls to go over 2 feet. We scrubbed down the whole car and now it's time to POR15 the underside, engine bay, and wheel wells.

 

Day 24
3 hours of painting POR15 over the entire bottom of the car, floorboards, and the engine bay. My god, I swear this car will be the death of me yet. If the fumes from welding doesn't fry my lungs this stuff will. And before the question comes up, yes I was wearing a mask. Now to fix little spots hear and there and topcoat the POR15.
POR15 pics!

















and the magic tool...

 

Day 25
We painted the entire area needed with MIL spec urethane gloss black! 3 hours of fun. And wow, is it shiny!

 

Day 26
We removed the grey cars body kit, shed a tear for it! Then we started assembly on the white car and began organizing the mountain of parts.
On a side note: the grey car was literally rotting out. Under the body kit was worse than I could have imagined and to that we get to add another body to the scrap yard. This one will be crushed and smelted into a new car one day.

 

day 27
lots of little work. we finished the chassis painting, cut the doors in, reworked one door panel and all the electronics, routed stuff around on the chassis. a little bit of everywhere.

 

Day 28
Today, I got covered in urethane while sealing the underside of the floorboards. Then I cut in the front fanders, stripped the other door panel from the grey car and rebuilt the electronics. Then i cut in the drivers door and mounted the panel.

 

Day 29
We installed the fenders, finished sealing the floor and door hinges, and test fit everything. Then we installed the front bumper and did some little mods to both bumpers for the kit installation.

 

Day 30
I stripped the grey car to the point where we can remove the motor and trans by removing the axles and 2 hanging mounts. I also stripped parts of the interior.

 

Day 31
We moved the grey car for the motor pull tommorrow. Then we mounted the sway bars with the speed pro bushings and sport endlinks. And we mounted the gas filler neck, exhaust brackets, and other random little parts I had powdercoated.

 

Day 32
Well after a long day at work and home, we pulled the motor and began installing steel braided line. I getting itchy thinking of the finished product. tommorrow we pull the suspension and gas tank from the grey car and haul it to the scrapper.





Gotta have motor gremlin pics!

 

Day 33
We removed a ton of stuff from the grey car. the gas tank was the big thing to get off today, which we did. I've been installing little things and prepping here and there.




Custom machined front tow loop.

 

Parts Pile Post
Cyberdyne oil pressure, oil temp, water temp, and sending units from Summit Racing. Steering column adapter from NRG. Speed Source extended slave cylinder rod, SS clutch line, aluminum subframe bushings, and brass shifter bushings.

New Fenders from...China?!?

Team Prototype fender flares came in!

McMaster Carr supplies front endlinks, gotta love em. Thanks Snyder for the idea!

Speed Source poly motor mounts came in!

Steel Braid line



Hood pins

Apexi AVC-R



koyo ST205 rad





SuperPro bushings



Pressurized Overflow


NRG quick release


Goodridge Stainless Steel Brake Lines

 

Day 34
today we stripped the grey car of the suspension. what we could we installed on the white car. i need to do a couple modifications in the back to make everything fit right with the strut conversion. we also installed a bunch of other little things. it's coming along.

 

Day 35
We've been working on prepping and getting down to the nity gritty things. We've found nice places to mount catch cans and overflow tanks under the front of the fenders. OH, and 200 dollars later I've learned that the #1 rear control arm bushings are not replacable. Damnit! Otherwise, we've been mounting thigns back on the car here and there and getting a good game plan together for everything. Now that we have 3 motors in the shop we have lots of play room!

 

Day36
Well we've been prepping the body kit and today we finally began installation. The rear bumper is officially on! Now for the rest. I went through the motor changing all the lines to thick silicon or steel braid. What a PITA! And while I'm at it, I decided to start removing extra crap from the motor as well. Much nicer and easier to work on, not to mention lighter! Aside from that, we've been getting everything together slowly. All the struts are installed and the rear strut brace. Both sway bars are installed and done. I'm waiting to get a couple bolts from the old car to finish bolting up the rear suspension on the new car. Oh and today I though of her name (see title).

 

Day 37
We installed the rear suspension minus 1 bar, the gas tank, and buttoned up most of the work on the motor.
This is what every motor should look like under the valve cover!


Bench pressing the tank was no easy task.