all about the bones
It’s been a few weeks ago, but we took the chassis up to Ken https://www.facebook.com/streetrodpainter/ Very excited to get this next phase dialed in and completed! He has some hurdles though! He moved his shop about 3 miles away from Yuba City to Marysville, CA. In the process he has been trying to get new…
From all the prep work done, the day has arrived! Some of the guys from Factory Five Sacramento arrived at 9am and we got busy! The prep work the night before paid off and we got the engine up and swiveled over to the chassis. Super stoked! I can’t believe the engine is in the…
Getting a bit closer to the engine installation timeframe. Had a few more items to cleanup in the bay and we’re getting closer! We ran a lot of the wiring in the engine bay around the perimeters and came upon the O2 sensor wiring. In the FFR directions, we need to split the O2 harness…
This was one of those moments when I realized the car was really coming together! My son had COVID-19 and was out of service for about 10 days, but feeling better now – so I was able to get a lot of sheetmetal work completed, and he came back to help with the rollbar setup.
One of the first changes I made to the build was to add the Boyd Welding gas tank. It’s a work of art, but more importantly it holds > 25 gallons of gas, which in this car is a bit overkill – but then again, this whole project has turned into ‘overkill’ 🙂 One of…
Now that the brakes are behind us, and the body panels are coming together. It’s time to customize a bit more… Many builders recommend some custom upper trunk panels to finish that area for carpeting. I grabbed and extra set of ‘elephant ears’ that came with the car and my Wiss snips and got to…
Now that the brakes are finished (FINALLY!) I buttoned up many of the body panels. I prepped, drilled and siliconed the driver floor, upper trunk, inner trunk panels and the rear body panels. I’m excited to say that it’s been several hundred drill holes without breaking any bits. Now, of course, since I said that,…
Due to the vacuum booster, the mount point for my triple reservoir was impacted due to the touch points with the booster. So I moved it to the firewall, yes, it will be under the body – but I need to get this thing built! Plus I think it looks pretty clean! I ran the…
Ok – I’ve been a bit ‘offline’ from the build for a few months… time to get re-invigorated! I received a photo the other day from Ken Pike – the body is prepped and ready for a fitment! All the rough edges have been sanded, filled, smoothed out and he’s ready for me! Welp! I’m…
Very excited today! My buddy Travis who is also building a FFR roadster offered to transport my car body to the painter today. He is way ahead of me, and was going to pick up his chassis after his initial fitting so it worked out great! The painter is about an hour away, https://streetrodpainter.com/ is…