Pics of My Wifes 86 GT Project Car

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I bought a 4-Eyed 'Stang last year back on May 24, 2007. It's an 86 GT that I bought for my wife as a project car for her. Here are some pics of it when I picked it up from my buddy.


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Here are some better pics that I took the next day, May 25, 2007.

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Here are some pics that I took after cleaning out the inside and carpet. I am going to scrub the carpet again tomorrow and should be able to get it even cleaner. I was going to buy a new carpet, but this is supposed to be a budget car just to get it running on its own power. We will upgrade and replace after the car is mobile.

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Here are some pics of the engine that we had just lying around that we took to the machine shop that weekend. It's going to be a stock non-roller 302 that's already bored .040" over with cast pistons. Going to put stock E7TE heads and an Edelbrock Performer intake with a Holley 600 carb. I have a bunch of extra parts from my white coupe that we are going to use. This car is going to be a hand me down car to start off with.

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Finally got "Blu" into the garage on May 30,2007.

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On June 7, 2007, JUSTTHEDRIVER and I took my block and crank over to Buddy's in Glenn Heights to get my block vatted, honed, new freeze plugs and cam bearings. Along with, took the crank to get polished and oil pan to get vatted. Well, I did not know he also took a set of heads and exchanged them out for a fresh set of E7TE heads. Buddy gave JUSTTHEDRIVER a hell of a deal for me. All of it cost me only $150.00. Talk about a deal. I am supposed to go get my block, crank and pan and go to JUSTTHEDRIVER's house in Waxahachie on Saturday and put my shortblock together before I bring it home. Here are a few pics of the heads.


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Here are some progress pics of parts that I blasted and cleaned the night of June 7, 2007.

Some before shots
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Some after shots
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Check out all of the FREEBIES she permanently borrowed from me.
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Well on June 27,2007, I got tired of waiting on her to help assemble the engine, so while Austin and her were at VBS that night I decided to go ahead and do it for her. Here are some pics through the various stages of assembly.

After installing the cam.
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Installing the crank.
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Installing the pistons and rods.
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Here are some more.

Look who decided to show up after the hard part was done.
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Installing the oil pump and pick up.
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With the pan loosely on there to paint.
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Installing the head studs.
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Installing the heads.
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Part 3

Heads painted.
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Polished the valve covers and set them on to see what it's going to look like.
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Now I just have to get a front timing cover and a timing chain. Once I get those two items, I can go back and seal the pan and install all of the valve train.

Also still need to finish bead blasting the intake and headers. Should be complete by this weekend.

[93whitelxcoupe]

On June 28, 2007, I bought a double roller timing chain and put it on along with went ahead and torqued down the heads. I picked up a front timing cover from greenbullitt and I buttoned up the pan once I got it.

I also, finally put together my 20 gallon parts washer and started cleaning all of the rocker arms and push rods and misc. valvetrain hardware. Like I said earlier, I still need to finish blasting the intake and headers. Hopefully I will have it completed this weekend!

[93whitelxcoupe]

Well I busted my butt on the weekend of July 1, 2007 and just about finished putting her engine together for her. She had to go back and do a few odds and ends, but left them for her to do! Here are some pics of what the finished product is going to look like! Not bad for a serious BUDGET motor! (Total of $435.00 spent on all parts carb to pan and all machining!)

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July 12, 2007

Here are some progress pics of TPK's 86GT build. We took the hood off today and started taking out all of the misc. wiring that she is not going to need, in order to clean up the engine bay.

Before we took the hood off.

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After we took the hood off.

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July 22, 2007

Here's some progress pics.

All of wiring harness and excess stuff not needed removed.
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Now here are the updated pics from today's progress. After a little more wire wheeling and brushing and the final blow down, decided to spray some primer before I spray the black.

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July 23, 2007

Started to tonight. Not finished yet. Still have to go back and get some spots that I missed along with put a 2nd coat on. My ******* fingers got tired and sore. Here are some pics.

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October 29, 2007

Well finally decided to help TPK and complete the final assembly of her engine. Here are the pics of the finished product. Now all we have to do is stab it into the engine bay sometime this week.

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December 16, 2007

On Friday I got a couple of new parts in for TPK's transmission. I got a nice aluminum BTE transmission pan and a C-code aluminum servo. Just need to get it to JUSTTHEDRIVER's buddy that built her C-4.

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January 10, 2008

Finally got around to taking some pics of TPK's new transmission.

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January 19, 2008

Check out Date Night tonight.

(Someone finally decided to do some work!)

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[Notch93]

Nice project, it looks like it's coming along pretty good.:thumbsup1: Love the time line of photos.:yes1:

[Tedds50]

badass you got a lot of great pics!!:thumbsup1:

[93whitelxcoupe]

Here is what we worked on!

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Man someone is proud of their work.

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Now the finished product.

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January 27, 2008

Got around to pulling out the junk 7.5 rearend that was in the car to roll it around. Also pulled all of the stock control arms and shocks. Need to finish wire brushing the 8.8 and painting it before it goes in the car. Also mounted the fuel pressure regulator and started running the fuel lines. I had to take out all of the old F.I. fuel lines first. And finally mounted the MSD 6AL box that I picked up from Travis.

TPK will be out of town most of the week, so my goal is to have all of the fuel system ran and drive line installed (the transmission and rearend) by Saturday. Then I can shift over to the wiring and putting the interior back together.

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February 2, 2008


Finally got around to messing with the fuel tank and fuel system today. I had to remove the old EFI fuel pump and install a tank pick up with -an fittings. Decided to clean up the fuel tank cover while I had it off. Also, had a hell of a time trying to figure out where to mount the fuel pump and fuel filter. Along with how to run the fuel line. I think it came out OK. I'm not to thrilled about how and where I mounted the fuel filter, but hey it will work for now.

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Also, got around to hanging the GMS Tubular U/L Control Arms that I took off of my car. I think they cleaned up pretty good. I even cleaned the stock springs and painted them with a fresh coat of gloss black.

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Here are pics of the rearend that will be going into the car. Nothing special. Still has the stock 2.73 gears. Tomorrow I plan on cleaning it up and giving it a fresh coat of paint before I slide it under the car.

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0585.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0587.jpg

[93whitelxcoupe]

February 7, 2008


Here are some pics of the rearend after I cleaned it up and gave it a fresh coat of paint.

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0588.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0589.jpg

And before anyone says anything. I did not paint the drums since I will be replacing them.

[93whitelxcoupe]

Was a very busy and productive evening. I will let the pics tell the story.


Rearend Install :
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0590.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0593.jpg
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http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0601.jpg


Finished running the fuel line :
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http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0603.jpg
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http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0605.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0606.jpg

[93whitelxcoupe]

The piece de' resistance :

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0608.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0609.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0612.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0615.jpg
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http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0624.jpg

There you have it! The driveline for the most part is finished. I just have a few odds and ends to take care of under the car before I set it back on the ground. My goal was to have the driveline finished by Saturday. Looks like I finally got ahead of schedule.

[93whitelxcoupe]

February 12, 2008


Looks like someone got a delivery from SummitRacing today.

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0687.jpg

Here are all of the parts for her trans cooler.
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0691.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0690.jpg
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http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0688.jpg


Overflow Tank
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0693.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0689.jpg


Trunk Mounted Battery Box
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0696.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0698.jpg

[93whitelxcoupe]

February 15, 2008


Got some more parts in yesterday.

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0704.jpg
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Had to see what they would look like.
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0713.jpg
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http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0714.jpg

[93whitelxcoupe]

Look what TPK just picked up from cylhead8 tonight. BTW, thanks cylhead8 for the heck of a deal on the hood.

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0726.jpg
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http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0717.jpg

[93whitelxcoupe]

February 21, 2008


Got around to doing a couple odds and ends.

Mounted the Transmission Cooler to the Radiator :
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0736.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0738.jpg

Mounted the Overflow Tank :
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0739.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0740.jpg


Mounted the Battery Box :
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0735.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0734.jpg


Stole the front runners off of my drag car to get an idea of how the car is going to look.
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0767.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0766.jpg
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_0768.jpg

[93whitelxcoupe]

That should catch everyone up to were we are on her build. I have been in Atlanta all week on business, and hopefully this weekend when I get back, I can get started back up on the car and finish it with her. She already has plans on a few call outs she wants to make when it's running.

[Nova]

she have a sister?

[87 vert]

nice car, looks good. i think my vert my get a heart transplant now.

[scgreysvt]

Nice build up. Good to have your wife interested in the same things you are.

[93fakesnake]

Great project car. Coming along nice. She is going to have a nice ride when ya'll are done with it.

[eric]

awesome car man and fantastic job keeping pictures of all that. Thank you!

[93whitelxcoupe]

Now that my car is finished, I can get back to helping the wife finish hers. Hope to post up some updates real soon.

[fast5.0]

lol she looks like a lil kid in a candy store

[greypony89]

Clean car will be Super SHARP when you get done with it! :yes1:

[Sprayedhatch]

man thats a killer job in a short period of time...keep us posted NICE WORK!!!

[wilsmoku]

very nice work and keep the pics coming:thumbsup1:

[JSTA302]

Good to see a fellow lady working on her own stuff.
I love working on and racing my cars!!!!!!!!!! Especially when I beat up on the guys!!!!!!!
You will have a blast too!!!!!!! You should be proud of all your hard work!!!!!!!:hi:

[SVTSkip]

Awesome job, and the car looks like it's going to be a fun one when yall are done with it ! I cant get my better half to do more than drive/put fuel in a car, so be happy that yall share interest in the hobby, that must be cool ! Congrats on a great job and keep the pics coming !!! :thumbsup1:

[93whitelxcoupe]

A little update.

Since we moved to GA, I left TPK's car back in Texas at my uncle's house. We decided to go back to Texas for Thanksgiving and while I am here decided to go and do a little bit of work to her car to try and finish it so that we can take it back to GA. Well I decided to go a different route with her car and we pulled the cast piston 308 that we built and decided to go with the 302 combo that was in my coupe before I went with a 351W. I went ahead and took the block to the machine shop and had the block prepped and bored .030" over. I had a set of Probe forged .030" over flat top pistons and Eagle SIR "I" beam rods just lying around. Had the crank polished and got a new set of rod and main bearings along with Moly rings and a Fel-Pro gasket set. Plan on using a Cam Motion Nitrous cam that i also had lying around. Not too mention I have 3 fresh sets of E7TE heads that one set is being polished and ported and gasket matched to a Victor Jr Intake that was also hiding in my spare parts bin. I think after all is said and done her car will be a lot faster than she anticipated. With as light as the car is, I am hoping for her to be able to run some 7.8x's on motor and 6.5x's on the bottle. I will keep everyone posted as more gets done.

[NOTCHED]

...I am hoping for her to be able to run some 7.8x's on motor and 6.5x's on the bottle...

You've got to be careful not to get it so she can outrun you! :)

[TappedOut]

Car is coming along. Nothing wrong with a 6.xx either.

[93whitelxcoupe]

Update : On my way back to Texas this week to finish the car up and bring it back. Hopefully will have some update pics in the next couple of days!

[93whitelxcoupe]

It's ALIVE!!!!

[93whitelxcoupe]

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_1099.jpg

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_1112-1.jpg

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http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_1095.jpg

[93whitelxcoupe]

Looks like someone is glad that their car is running! (TPK)

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_1134.jpg

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_1137.jpg

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[93fakesnake]

I believe you can see the light at the end of the tunnel now. That is a great build. Great way to spend some quailty time together!!!

[yanko 15]

hey man shoot me a pm with the wheel and tire specs as well as what springs you ran on the car please

also where did you get the hood?

[86vert]

where did you get the hood ?been looking foe forever!

[93whitelxcoupe]

Started working on "Blue" again yesterday. In the process of dying the interior Black. Also, refurbished the taillights. Here are a few pics of the taillights.

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_1989.jpg

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_1990.jpg

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http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_1996.jpg

[mike s]

awesome project :thumbsup1:

[Blue Hatch]

You did a great job on those tail lights. Great job on the whole project!! All the hard work looks to be paying off.

[fastoleman]

nice build :thumbsup1:

[MPRT_H8R]

holy crap man...great pictures........great job on a really cool car......makes me want to get the new parts on my car~

[vcr12564]

:thumbsup1: Great job on the car and documentation!

[93whitelxcoupe]

Finally got around to working on TPK's car again. Removed all of the sound deadener material throughout the car and painted it with a light rubberized coating. Also, started changing the color on all of the rest of the interior panels.

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/93WHITELXCOUPE/My%20Boy%20Blue/100_2049.jpg

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[93whitelxcoupe]

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[Bluestreak]

She's looking awesome! Great work, and that's going to be a nice clean example of a four eye.

Is this going to be a drag car? If weight's a consideration, ignore me. Otherwise... while she's stripped bare, I highly suggest hitting at least the floor pan, trunk and the roof with sound deadener/matting. I used a product called eDead recently, and it went in beautifully. It has made the car a totally different animal, eliminated every squeak, rattle and unidentified noise inside the car. With all the factory sound deadener removed, I only added a net weight gain of about 35-lbs to the car - but for the noise it's eliminated, it was well worth the small cost in weight gain. And all the deadener I needed (about 80-sf for my coupe) only cost about $125. eDead doesn't rape you over price like Dynamat does, and the newest generation of eDead is just as good a product as Dynamat. The only thing I suggest is using aluminum tape to cover seams between the pieces of matting as you lay it to ensure none of the butyl rubber compound can get bonded to the carpet or headliner after you re-install them.

I kind of wondered if I was making a mistake adding sound deadener (because it was time consuming and labor intensive) but it truly made an incredible difference and was a huge improvement in the drive-ability of my car. My wife and I can have a whispered conversation in the car now, something that was impossible before. The stereo system is ten times more effective now, the AC works better because the cabin is well insulated... I liked the improvement so much that I'm planning to do it again to my '99 Trans Am and my '73 Pontiac convertible that I'm in the process of restoring.

Just somethin' to think about! Great looking car you guys are building.

[93whitelxcoupe]

She's looking awesome! Great work, and that's going to be a nice clean example of a four eye.

Is this going to be a drag car? If weight's a consideration, ignore me. Otherwise... while she's stripped bare, I highly suggest hitting at least the floor pan, trunk and the roof with sound deadener/matting. I used a product called eDead recently, and it went in beautifully. It has made the car a totally different animal, eliminated every squeak, rattle and unidentified noise inside the car. With all the factory sound deadener removed, I only added a net weight gain of about 35-lbs to the car - but for the noise it's eliminated, it was well worth the small cost in weight gain. And all the deadener I needed (about 80-sf for my coupe) only cost about $125. eDead doesn't rape you over price like Dynamat does, and the newest generation of eDead is just as good a product as Dynamat. The only thing I suggest is using aluminum tape to cover seams between the pieces of matting as you lay it to ensure none of the butyl rubber compound can get bonded to the carpet or headliner after you re-install them.

I kind of wondered if I was making a mistake adding sound deadener (because it was time consuming and labor intensive) but it truly made an incredible difference and was a huge improvement in the drive-ability of my car. My wife and I can have a whispered conversation in the car now, something that was impossible before. The stereo system is ten times more effective now, the AC works better because the cabin is well insulated... I liked the improvement so much that I'm planning to do it again to my '99 Trans Am and my '73 Pontiac convertible that I'm in the process of restoring.

Just somethin' to think about! Great looking car you guys are building.

Thanks for the advice/heads up. We were planning on leaving it a Street/Strip car, more emphasis on the Strip portion though. I may have to reconsider and put look into putting that in along with carpet.

[85cobra]

NICE WORK!!!:thumbsup1:

[colascstang]

Good job!:thumbsup1:

[Foxxtrot]

Dug this one out of the archives. I am always looking for 4 eye project cars on here.:lol1: I was curious as to what happened to this build? Did you get it finished up? What's it running now?