99BlackPonyGT

the glass wont crack, and the bondo top coat will be very very thin, which is the trick to having it not crack....it will hold up fine, people have been doing this for years...my buddy did his entire engine bay like this (the same guy doing mine) and his turned out great

it looks thicker in the driver side pic because it hasnt been sanded yet

BlackMage

just curious did you guys use short strand kitty hair for this or long strand stuff? and what brand products ya use? i think the kitty hair is Evercoat that i normally use, and the bondo is Evercoat Rage.

99BlackPonyGT

its actually duraglass, and i dont know the brand off the top of my head...we got it for free from a body shop supplier...and the body filler is bondo brand

99BlackPonyGT

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trans cross member is in, along with the flywheel starter, and converter.

still need to get
trans lines plumbed
cooler mounted
cage in
sub frames in
t stat housing
t stat or plate
heater hose fittings
heater hose
radiator hoses
radiator( this one is just to fire it up
finish the fuel lines
and a mess of wiring and fitting other things still

03GeeTee

that engine bay looks so clean. It really came out nicely

99BlackPonyGT

there were some imperfections that couldnt really be straightened out due to a few kinks and creases in the frame rails from when it was wrecked...it went on a frame machine to pull it straight, and then whatever was left was hammered back to as close to perfect as it could get...the speckled paint helps blend in where the bondo lines werent perfect due to the previous frame damage...

luckily, the creases were far enough up that they did not effect drivability, even before it hit the frame machine it was driving straight as an arrow...front impact wasnt too hard....

i really like how the speckled came out though, my buddy did a great job on the body work and paint...especially for spray can paint

302army187

that paint looks great in the engine bay, really unique!

motor looks sick!

you should take a picture of the camera tword the radiator support, shooting down the exhaust side of the head to see the clearence between the heads and tower's. but it doesn't look as tight in there as I thought it would.

83gtragtop

Awesome job on the paint, I've never seen anything like that but it looks great.

nepopolus

wow that looks sick, i thought the motor would be higher up then that.

99BlackPonyGT

thanks guys...

and the motor is lower than normal because it has k member spacers that lift the body of the car up an inch in the front to give a better driveline angle and more hood clearance...ill even it out by dropping it back down with the coilovers so it will still look good

as for pics of clearance...hold on, i have a ton of clearance pics from mockup, ill go dig them up