NY Twin Turbo
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You are moving quite quickly with this project. I'm jealous. I would be half as far along by now.
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ttypewhite
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Corrected that for ya. lol Great investment. Cheapest 3 car garage out there.
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ttypewhite
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I think I have been dragging my heels. Only touched it 4 times in the last 33 days. I'm over thinking a lot of things and making things seem bigger than they really are. When I am working on it, I'm good... focused, but when I step back and start looking at it, I find I get in my own way more times.
NY Twin Turbo
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Yea, I know that feeling. When I'm working on a Buick project, sometimes when I stop and sit back, in my head I just keep adding on all the things I think I need to do. I then I get feelings of defeat knowing it's impossible to address them all.
Then late at night, while falling asleep, I work it all out in my head. Then go back at doing it the next day.
Vicious cycle.
ttypewhite
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Put on my front Gbodyparts fillers last night. This took me quite a bit of time before I asked for help. Don't know why I thought that this was a one man job. You can't hold anything in position and scribe at the same time so I struggled like hell doing the drivers side by myself until I asked my daughter to help me with the passenger side. Took a hour and a half doing the drivers side myself and 15min doing the passenger side. lol They line up very well. For the money you would be hard pressed to find any flaws that would glaringly stand out. But overall they are fantastic in fit and finish. I'm also quite sure that someone with a better nack for body work stuff would yield even better results than what I did.
Just did the interior on my white T black as well
It should be fine with the pitbull chip and volt booster
Did you get the actual oem ones he has? He sells a few different ones but I got the factory ones made from the original molds made with better updated materials as the description says and they fit perfect. No fuss, wham bam thank you mam. And the hardest part was getting help to lift the bumper back up.
Looks great!!!
Looks great!!!
NY Twin Turbo
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I noticed your not using the vinyl weather strip around the GNX flares. And I think I know why. Black would look bad, and painting them white wouldn't work all that well. Cracking, discoloration, whatever....
How do they fit up-top? I know down below it isn't all that noticeable. I could see leaving it the way it is.
Just curious about your thoughts.
How do they fit up-top? I know down below it isn't all that noticeable. I could see leaving it the way it is.
Just curious about your thoughts.
ttypewhite
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No they were not the oem ones. He said he did cast them from a original set of brand new oem fillers tho. I believe these ones were $100 for the front set, and they fit better than the original ones that these replaced.
ttypewhite
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Overall they fit very well. There is a lot of carving that is needed to be done, especially in the rears. My 325/40/18 M&H drag radial is a 28" tire and has a pretty aggressive foot print on a 18x10.5" rim. The outer lip is rolled in very thin. May a 16 of a inch thick. So the flare must also be cut down that same distance as well to avoid any contact with the tire and I had little tabs welded to the outer portion of the fender for the flare to secure to instead of running a self tapping screw through the body of the car. The black belting that I bought with the flares look silly on it. Brings your eye on the flare more and looks odd in certain angles. Looks more clean without it.
ttypewhite
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Took the fillers back off and drilled the 3 holes for the bottom portion of the headlight area that I forgot, and then put back the whole front end back on the car. I bought new park lights, anodized black park light bezels, and bulbs for the entire car front and back from Gbodyparts. Still awaiting the black trim side marker lights that are on back order to replace the chrome ones my T-type originally came with. The car is starting to take shape, and I am clearing up a lot of real estate in my basement with all these big items coming up off of the floor.
ttypewhite
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Worked on reconditioning the tail lights. Took them apart and wiped them down with paint thinner and shot them with a nice satin black that pretty much matches the factory color to a T.
Here is a before and after shot with the freshly painted bezel and high speed polished lens.
BEFORE
AFTER
Here is a before and after shot with the freshly painted bezel and high speed polished lens.
BEFORE
AFTER
ttypewhite
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Bought some new bumperettes from Gbodyparts and reassembled everything back on my bumper with the impact strip as well. Then put the ass end of the car back together again.
grass doctor
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man that thing looks like a great white shark...i think between you and NY twin turbo ...i dont know which car i like better ...
V6sleeper
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Ive seen NY twin turbo's in person its a sight to be seen, but both these guys have a great attention to detail thats out of my wheel house lol.man that thing looks like a great white shark...i think between you and NY twin turbo ...i dont know which car i like better ...
ttypewhite
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Installed my side mirrors last night. Now it's ready to go out for wet sanding. Then I can put on all of my trim, door handles, key locks etc.
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