death to the white alltrac! we discovered that that car has been flipped once and the drivers side of the car was crushed. not that it matters to us. oh and we named our shop today - Camp Celica! rofl! enjoy letze! bill your new rad sir, no leaks. looks pretty good. car flipping brought to you by Ramzilla. the biggest factory Ram you could order in 2K1. added height by yours truly.
Time to bring back the old thread with new details. Mafix called me last tuesday. " How many wheels do you want on your birthday present." Long story short, we went out last Thursday 10/01/09 and picked up yet another Alltrac. This time its blue. Currently the car is in the garage safe and sound. I want to play really bad, but I cannot bring myself to do it without a title. I may start this weekend anyway. Removal only, no install of fresh parts. Front fenders are rusted with surface rust, drivers side is busted. There is a dent in the rear quarter panel on the drivers side by the bumper and bodykit. 1 final dent underneath the passenger side rear tail light. Other than that the car is mint. It does come with the normal sun roof rust. Not much can be said there. But there is no fender well rust, no rust on the underside that we could see. The exhaust isn't even rusty. Schweet! Rear cradle looks awesome, fuel lines are in awesome shape. Even the interior is pretty nice. Car came with a few extras. B&G Sport Lowering Springs, KYB AGX front shocks, KYB GR2 rear shocks, and then some extra parts and pieces. I'm gonna try to get some pics up in the next few days. Big thanks to Willie for the car, as he 'gave' it too me for an early birthday present.
Front End with bumper removed. Blown Motor. Gonna be the next race block Clean Interior The almost good side of the car Dent to be fixed The back, minus bumper and tail lights. Yay for no rust hidden by the bumper. Front with bumper and head lights removed.
11/03/09 Removed Fenders, Inner Fenderwells, Front AC Condenser, Front WTA cooling tank, Windshield washer tank and lines, Side Skirts, All body kit pieces in the front of the car, rest of the lighting, horn, Cruise Control, AC lines, Damn near everything infront of the downpipe and some other stuff along the passenger side fender. For shits and grins I pulled back the carpet on the passenger side of the car. No rust. None. Nada. Zip Zero. For once our biggest dilema is finding the rust to fix rather than it staring us in the face like normal.
wow i move pretty fast! literally we are trying to find where the rust is hiding. this hands down is the best condition 4th gen we've owned. plans... sub 3200 lbs loaded gen 1 powered with awd handling/track car not a drag car wicked paint and super clean body hopefully this will come out being awesome mike i was thinking about what you said with the wife painting your car. i think the primer coats that it would be fine. that would be the end of it. i figured out all the layers of paint that need to be done. after the base coat there can be absolutely no runs in the paint. food for thought. if you still want her to do it then that's fine but this paint will be a bit pricey. here is the coat layers: sealer primer primer primer base color graphic graphic inlay pearl clear x3 everything after the base coat is a spray one time the way i have it worked out. it has to be flaw free or we will have to start back at primer. either way it'll be sweet. i'm sure we will figure it out. also i did not put the colors in on here to keep it a bit of a suprise. one more thought...we might want to drop in the motor before any color goes on. that way it can be blended right. you color choices are not solid colors and the way i have it pictured will be a consistant fade. pretty sick. i wish i could download my brain.
Great plans love it. Only thing I will say is, if you go trick paint will sprayed in graphics, any slight knock from a track day will be a real pain to fix. on the airfield tracks we use, space is not an issue, so unless you are mega unlucky you wont hit anything, but road debris damge from the surfaces is a def possiblty Then on the circuits, I have rubbed several times on tyre walls and cones, its easy for me to cover up the chips, but on a trick paint it may be a issue. Just my thoughts, as when you out on track you dont wanna be worringing about the car at all.
I would love to say that this car is going to get tracked on a regular basis, but I know that this will never happen. At least not as regular as I would like. This is going to end up being more of a pleasure car/weekend cruiser. Not much else. May see a couple passes at the drag strip, but thats probably it.
Arh fair play then... coolgleamA coolgleamA Its just I have seen many a cracking paint job ruined by track action, its the nature of it. Cannot wait to see the paint work, you guys are progressing well!
Carbon Fiber Hood to be installed. Shittiest job ever. Close up of the hood. Exhaust Pipe was the only thing holding the car from going higher Willie is just over 6ft. Get the idea of how high this beast was up?
One day I'll actually take pics of this. Update. Front end has been stripped bare. Steering rack was shot, so we have another one on order. Started cleaning up a ton of parts. Got my first mods in the other day. Let me tell you. Most un exciting $300 I ever spent. Even the box was not exciting. But I do now have my: Poly Engine Mounts Stainless Clutch Line Aluminum Crossmember Bushings. Cleaned and painted my crossmembers in a bright red, along with my TB coupler, valve cover and a few more odds and ends. Painted my motor mounts black and started cleaning up my A arms for paint.
LOL how did I forget, I must be getting old :ugh I see you guys worked on the CF hood also, looks like it's going to be a RC style perhaps?
