The Project Pad

48" wide. it wouldnt do the entire hood. there is a seam right where the grill starts sorta under the headlights, and there are two little triangle sections up near the windshield on either side. everything else is good. you'll need about 30 yards to be honest, i used 38 yards but i messed up a few times and had to redo some stuff. what color did you go with?

I went with matte black aswell. Figured might as well do something interesting since the paint is shot anyway. lol. Looks like you beat me to it. haha. Looks good tho, i'm excited to do it. Any tips?

-Dom

Hmm, this might be a good way to revitalize old black plastic bumpers...

Any of you fellers want to sell me like a 12"x48" scrap to test it out?

-Rog

Do not do it over shot paint. That's a bad idea, lol. The surface has to be smooth and very very clean. Start from the middle out when laying the vinyl. And for the doors do the top to the bottom. Squeegee slowly to avoid bubbles. Bubbles, if you squeegee too fast, turn into creases. And creases. Aren't fixable unless you peel the vinyl up.

The paint is smooth just a tad faded. How did you do the roof and pillars? multiple pieces or the vinyl was wide enough to cover it aside from those few triangles you said?

I spoke to a few guys that have done it and watched a bunch of youtube videos, and im usually pretty patient with stuff like this so im confident. lol

-Dom

We did the roof in one piece up to the channel on top. Then the a and c pillars along with above the windows in another long piece. Then seamed it in the channel on the roof.

You know i've never REALLY considered wrapping, but this may have changed my mind to at least weigh the option.

Total cost for you to wrap you 90 ended up for the 38 yards?

If I were to do it again I THINK I could get away with doing it with 30 yards.

The people I've spoken to that do this stuff professionally say you need on average about 25 yards give or take a few, depending on how much you screw up and how big the car is. I should be good with the 50 yards I got. lol

3G makes good stuff too. I just wasn't paying for it. The price I got on a 50 yard roll was around a grand. And for that price I coulda just had the car actually sprayed.

Yeah seriously, how wide? I use Oracal at work and that stuff is not cheap.

fuel system is in the car for final. just gotta finish the line that runs up to the fuel rail, and the filter setup. i may also put a filter between the low pressure high volume pump and the fuel cell as well. took some pics of the hose i use and the machine i use to make it. cut it to length, put it in the machine and hold the toggle switch til it crimps. done.

hydraulic press


before


after

well, as i wait for my custom cometic head gasket i have been re-doing alot of things that i didnt really like after staring at them for a while. first off, the intake manifold. i rushed it first time around, and after looking at it alot, i hated it. so, here's the almost done pics of the second attempt.

welded the runners to a baseplate, then they were smoothed out with a dynabrade. then had some 4 inch elbows chopped in half lengthwise, butted them together and got the other half of the manifold done. shortened the runners about 2 inches as well, something that i wanted to do the first time around and HAD to do in order for this thing to fit in the car this time around.

that looks pretty sweet

manifold pretty much complete. i think it came out amazing. my friend took the time when he welded the pieces all together to polish the inside of the weld so everything in the manifold is nice and smooth. same with the outside on the top, it almost looks like its completely one piece.





and the bbk 75mm throttle body with half of the Vibrant vanjen clamp welded to it.

looking good. i like the hand-made radius edges leading into the runners.....

it oughta werk good.

75 users raise hand (raises hand) LOL

thats why i went from 70mm to 75mm. gotta copy what makes proven power and runs times man. no bullshit.

Wooo my new TB for the Hank mani is 75mm too

it isnt a copy situation. it is a "learn from others research/trials" situation.

the rabbit made >550 whp with a 70mm, BTW.

so. FINALLY got all the pieces together for my motor assembly this evening. the breakdown list is at the beginning of the thread but here is is regardless.

83.5mm JE pistons 8.5:1ish comp
SCAT connecting rods
Calico coated main bearings
Calico coated +.001 rod bearings
Cat hydraulic cams. 3652 intake custom ground exhaust
AEG cast crank
ARP main studs
ARP head bolts
AEB head (stock port)
Integrated Engineering manual tensioner roller
16v style manual timing belt tensioner
Gates Blue timing belt
Custom Cometic 84mm bore .051 headgasket
Other random little odd things....onto the pics

tack welded oil pump gear bolt


tack welded crank trigger bolts


TDC stopper.


TDC wheel setup


Custom Pinned Crank Timing Gear


Cometic 84mm headgasket


ARP SS exhaust manifold studs


Pretty much buttoned up, missing the manual tensioner and timing belt. oh, and the oil pan.


hopefully will get that finished this weekend, and may have a motor in my car this coming week. have to finish making a few things hopefully first while the motor sits, downpipe and ic piping. then once it goes in i can bolt everything together, finish some wiring, and hope for the best.

hey.... ARP SS ex mani studs? WTF Over?????

and its late.... but for a 1-dyno-hit ring seat procedure, ask your machinist about a plateau brush finish

if they good then they know WTF is up.

looks awesome!

ARP exhaust mani studs/nuts in ss. Even got cute little ARP 12pt ss nuts to hold the valve cover down, lol.

gall city...... better use plenty of anti-seize especially on the ex nuts.

you shoulda left the welds on the intake manifold, theylooked good...

now get the fuking motor in and drive the damn thing!
too long!!!