well big bummer that my supremes didnt fit…so I sold them :smt010 and I knew what I wanted and came up on a good deal for a set so hopefully after next week ill be getting a set of 15×7 standard 40spoke starwires! 😯 😀

I guess ill get some three wing spinners for them or maybe some bullets but ive never seen starwires with bullets so im unsure how it may look, most likely going to run some pinner whites untill I get some fatwalls later when its all finished painted 8)

just been slowly making all the mounts for the hydraulic pumps and welding in the front pumps, ordered a new spline key for the pump and some cylinder rebuilds for the front I got to go pick up some fittings that I need to use and order hopefully the manifold to controle everything next week

making the mount for pump

the pump is bolted in through the door jamb it will be easily accessable, these are the bolts that will hold it I still have to weld sleeves around them yet

clearing hole cut for power to the pump motor I will run the wire inside of course there will be a rubber grommet around it

the pump head

plenty of pump and manifold space

on the driver side is where I want to mount the optima battery in a vertical position there wasnt enough room for it to go in between so I make a indented box so it will fit fine

still have alot of bracing and welding yet to do on this yet but its moving along

front frame cut out nad 1/4 plates welded in for the front cylinders 6 inch prohoppers

I may in the meantime just hook up 2 dumps and tee off some lines just to lift until I get a manifold for it

and there ya go :smt006

Looking Good.

thanx man! ill get with you after thanksgivin to get that lid out of your way :smt006

any way slow week all I did was finish mounting the pump brakets up and welding them in and welding the battery box in solid still need to make a lower reinforcement but I broke my cutter as I was making it so Ill get a new blade next week.

then went to the big ass swap meet out here to look for some wheels, I had 4 sets that I had picked out around the meet and was going to bite on a set when my homie called me up and said a buddy of ours was ready to sell a set so I went with them and picked them up tonight 😉

got me some NOS spinners from the swap meet for cheap 😎

I love it when a plan comes together 😎

need to get me some pinner whites this week and mount these wheels and then stop bullshittin and get this thing going

LOOKING GOOD 😀 🙂 keep up the good work. I want to know why you are using chrome-moly tubing instead of standard hard-wall tubing? We build street-rods and off-road buggies around here and have problems with the chrome-moly tubing cracking and breaking, and the hard-wall would give and return to shape.

the chomoly will hardly be a problem on this type of car, I used to race atvs and only had one of my aftermarket chomoly frames crack only becouse I was running a cr500 in it and the vibes were tremendous. Being a regular driven car and not getting abused I think it will hold up just fine, plus I like saying its got a partial chomoly frame.. 8)

brought in the hood today to start its mockup with custom hinges. I didnt want to use the old hinges plus all my new radiator suport structer would be in the way of the stock hinges. So Ive horded a few sets of hinges over the past year or two that I thought may work in this application, I also looked at universal billet hinges but decided against them since they were WAY to much in my book for a pair of hinges :0 .

hood sitting back on the car 😉 it been nearly 3 years since its been on this car again :0

and here are the hinges I plan on using the cool thing is that they bolt right into the factory hood hinge spot! that made less fab time for this.

and here is how low they lay when closed up

now you may say that these arnt strong enough for the weight of the hood but they suported a trunk of a car that weighed just as much if not more then this hood just fine, also they carry the suport strut inbord of the hinge so everything will be intergrated so its super clean, all I have to do now is add my bottom plate to bolt these hinges in.

Also if you thinking the hood will not clear with these hinges it will they first lift then fold up so the hood will actually sit straight up 4 inches above the car when installed all the way. 😉

also got my custom cut plates to complete my regular car battery today. 😎

God, I better have mine done by then. We’ll roll in together to the ROD RUN.

and that would be quite awesome 😈

had an extra hour at work so I pulled the doors back out of the back room and sprayed in POR15 al over the inside made sure I got it all in there good I will still shoot some bedliner type material before its done.

swapmeet tomorow! going to see if I cant loose some mula lol 😎

got a bit done this week again

made a hood latch and striker worked out well got plenty of adjustment now I dont have to worry about the hood flying open while driving in reverse! :0

the hood striker partly pirated from a chevy trailblazer 😉

and reusing my stock 99 lincoln hood latch just got to add a lower brace to steady it more, also the phillips screws are temp I plan on putting in nutserts into the crossbar and it will be firmly held in

also went back over the quarters since they were bare metal cleaned them up and epoxy’d them next week I plan on getting the roof done and putting in the door latches so they stay shut

bit by bit its comming along 😎

ok well ive been doing small things here and there just test fitting parts etc etc… did manage to final y buy some tires for my wheels picked up a set of new goodyear 205/70/15 wich came out to be the same height as the original wheel and tire combo so im happy with that. But apon installing my rear wheels I found a new problem the extra width of the 8.8 axle makes my tire scrub the inside of the outside of the rear inner fender (say that three times fast…lol ) so Im going to cut out part of my quarter or the whole quarter (depends on my current mood that day) and re do the outside portion of the inner wheel house so that the tire clears everythig without scrubbing. here are some pics of that

oh I still have to get some lugnutzz for the rear well…. all of the wheels lol

here is the new tire compaired to the stock setup (also if anyone did do this and decided on keeping the stockers they wont have a problem scubing, its just these cragers still have a slight positive offset to them.

also I have to tackle the setback look of the front wheel to the wheelhouse, my plans are to cut the fenders remove from the back 3 inches to set the wheelhouse back some and subseqently add 3 inches to the front to lengthen it.

also this setback is more noticable when the car is lowered if it was still at stock height its almost unnoticable

here is the marks for the cuts

also as an added bonus since im slicin and dicin away at the fenders Im also going to lower the wheelhouse height by 2-3 inches as well by cutting and adding metal above it. Thats marked by the horizontal line above the wheel house, cut there and add the additional metal filler.

next: found me some shocks for the hood hinges the stock lexus shocks wont hold the hood and I recently junked a 91 towncar well when I was loading it up I debo’d the hood struts and with a little drillin went right on!

im hoping to pick up my front wheelhouses this weekend so I can start on them but if not im going to start on the back at least

so while I was bored I slung one of my 99 towncar windo regulators into the drivers door and sorry for the poor picture quality but with minor mods it will bolt in! this will be a major improvement over the original regulators wich in my car are unkown if they even work or not, but never the less now if i have a problem napa here I come!

and here she sits (she does get to sleep in the carport)

till next time! :smt006