The car is at body and paint atm. They need these wheels to widen the front fenders. Hopefully I'll have it back in a few weeks. From there it's dropping in the motor and crossing my fingers it's starts

That'll be a good moment

Are you running a wider OEM style front fender to fit those front specs? pretty aggressive without!

Yep the front fenders will be widened 1"

Dropped by the body shop to test fit the wheels and check up on progress. Here are the pics I snapped. I'm going back this weekend to throw the Airrex struts back on and dial in fitment so I know how much wider the fronts need to be.

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Dude the wheels looks amazing! :drool: can wait to see it finish

Top Secret hood pins installed.

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The front end is coming together

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:happydance:

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Dropped by the shop to throw the air struts back on. Finally able to get an "idea" of how she'll sit when she's all done. Also able to determine how much wider the fronts need to be.

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How are they widening the fronts? Add on flare or cut and reshape?

Them brakes!

Cut and reshape

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Cutting commenced. This is currently 1" wider. I think it needs another .5" to 1"

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Very nice Mr. Wiggins. What camber specs are you gonna run to tuck those beautiful wheels?

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The plan is to bring it back to OEM camber whether that means they tuck or not I really don't care. Drivability is the goal

I dropped back by the shop yesterday to check out the wider front fender mock-ups in person. 1" wasn't enough, so we landed on 1.75" wider up front.

After see the car in person I had some concerns about the leading edge and the arch of the fender/ bumper. Because the plan was to add 1.75" in width all the way down that meant that the leading edge would have to drop about 1.75" as well (i.e. the peak of the wheel well arch would sit about 1.75" closer to the ground than OEM). I wasn't ok with that so we talked for awhile about additional options. The fix will be to add 1.75" at the peak, however as you continue down the fender and into the bumper it will taper in very close to OEM width. Once this is done and the angle of the fender is pushed out some the arch of the wheel well remain oem. Ive attached new mock-ups.

What this does mean is that the bottom of the front wheels/ tires will technically poke past the bumper line. But I'm ok with that.

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I also snagged these while I was there.

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awesome!!!

I did one last check on wheel fender/ wheel fitment today. Fiberglass gets laid next week and paint not to far after.

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Crazy build, can't wait to see the finished product!!!

:iagree: they are going to looks amazing :drool:

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Damn, Steve!

I hope you are not going to sell it after this.

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Small update. Unfortunately my body and paint guy fractured his wrist so my project has once again hit a bump in the road. That being said he's cut the driver side fender and applied fiberglass to both front fenders. He'll be laying fiberglass on the back side next, removing the layer you see here and smoothing it all out this week.

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Body is back in a big way!!! Paint should be ready to go sometime next week!!!

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almost done bro! :tup:

That's what Steve said a loooong time ago lol

Car is looking good buddy!

haaha!!!:p

Body put the front back together to test fit. He's finishing up a few small things and taking it back apart tomorrow to prep for paint. Won't be long.

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yeaaaah!!! looking great man! :tup:

Today's update:

I dropped by to rerun the airline for the front struts and check out progress. I couldn't be happier with how it looks. Seeing pictures is one thing, but seeing it in person.... I would guess the typical person wouldn't be able to tell the front is widened by 1" at the peak of the arch and that's exactly what I wanted.

On the air line front, I reran the fronts so that 95% of the airline remained inside the car. The airline goes from the tanks in the cargo area down each side of the plastic door jam and out a hole in the wheel wheel at about 3 o'clock on the driver side and 9 o'clock on the passenger side. I was actually able to use the OEM hole for the hood release cables on the driver side (since those are now removed) and made a new hole on the passenger side at the same spot. Sorry no pics of that.

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One more thing, I finally have the deign for the chassis wing stands. There will be a few additional tweaks but the concept is all there.

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:drool:

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I've been holding into these. The doors, read quarters, rear overfenders, roof and hatch are getting painted today. Front end early next week.

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I see of Wiggins and his friend does everything in such good timing. There is the Big Red Bull Cooler :tup:

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Looking very good though brotha!

Color!!!

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1st vid doesn't work...but 2nd vid looks great :)

Beautiful Color !!!

-Clifford :tiphat: