Through the looking glass

Got a couple things done on the project last night, got some help from my girlfriend Yu-Ju that I'm having fun teaching her how to wrench and work on vehicles, feels great to be teaching and sharing my knowledge and experience.

Almost finished up all the vacuum and boost lines, last one has been run, a couple still need to be hooked up. Also got the rear window installed.......probably something I should have done sooner as I did have to remove a bunch of stuff to get it in. Lastly got the intercooler fully mounted and bolted in.....boost piping still needs to be painted and clamped in place, maybe this weekend.

Sasha decided to photobomb a couple pictures, complete with her teddy bear.

A whole bunch of ridiculousness going on here

Been struggling with time lately, work is very busy with trade show season, had a couple work trips to NYC and Chicago, couple TMR race events and a well deserved vacation over the last 3-4 weeks........trying to stay focused but running out of time.

I was able to get the exhaust tips and piping test fit and tack welded together, so much awesome going on, completes the ridiculous look and it looks great. Again it won't stay like this forever, in time when the body starts coming together, interior, paint and finishing then I will do something more respectable and that fits with the overall design better.

Bad assery in the works

Well this is going to probably piss off a few Fiero Die Hard fans, but I had to, the more I looked at my car the more I'm thinking I should just make it as ridiculous as possible..........well until the body is being done then I'll make it more clean and refined, for now it's drift wing and silliness! Don't worry though, there is going to be no stancing.

Now to the serious part, I found the location for the headlights, the radiator makes finding the proper location a little difficult, it's tight, very tight, heck I'd still like to narrow them up a bit but if I do so I won't be able to remove the rad cap. Now I just need to finish the mount for the lights, gotta design a bracket to hold the remaining mounting points to the frame.

With the lights being mounted I wanted to get the bumper and fenders to sit right, so I started trimming them, after I was on a roll and maybe went a bit overboard, grabbed the hood, trimmed that, the pop up lids, yup cut that.......then what the heck grabbed the hood extractor and cut that. Now I have a good idea that isn't just in my head of how the car is going to look. The bumper, hood and fenders will need a little love to get it fitting around the lights proper, there is a slight curve difference between the Fiero parts and the 300zx lights but it isn't that far out, mainly the hood is more flat of a curve than the lights, so trim and recurve the hood to the bumper, shouldn't be that difficult.

What do you think?

It's been a few weeks

Unfortunately I've been busy, very busy, had a summer vacation then get back to the office to find out that I was needed in Chicago and New York two weeks in a row........progress has been slow the last couple weeks. With that behind me I did get some work done last night, mostly cleaned up the car, put a few things away, tried to refresh where I was in the build. Because I left off at extending the wiring for the front lights I decided to start mounting the 300ZX headlights to the car, going to need them in order to run the wiring for the lights. I kinda wish I had them before I painted the chassis, in order to get the lights mounted I had to cut some of the upper bumper support out and it looks like I'm going to have to remove the hood hinge mounting (I'm going with a one piece front clip anyways) in order to narrow the lights and get them in the right location, currently I think they are an inch too far apart and won't fit proper in the hood/fender area. I'll get them in the right location tonight plus design the brackets to properly mount them, currently there's just one bolt holding them into the bumper reinforcing beam.