The Official MACn89blckstng Progress Thread

  • Sponsors (?)


I took House of Kolor clear intercoat and added a powdered blue satin pearl to it and sprayed that over the black and the silver. In some light it looks straight black but on some other angles it looks dark blue. I wasn't sure if I liked it at first but it grew on me real quick.
 
A lil update, I wasn't able to do much the last two weeks cause of other stuff in my life but last week I was able to paint my control arms and sway bars. I'm redoing my sway bars cause I did them in red and changed my mind and am going to do them in orange to follow the black/silver/orange thing. The shocks are red but I will be leaving them since they are Lakewoods. Orange shocks would look strange IMO.

I put the rear and new control arms in the car this morning, I took pics but I guess my boss forgot to burn them to the CD I brought home with me.

I also started finishing my engine bay up. Got half way into it and then got sidetracked with the job switch and motor rebuild and everything else. So here is the progress I got done today. Welded the holes shut that I thought I needed on the rad support and dont need anymore. I also hacked off the lower rad support cause someone pulled the car by it and bent it all up so I will be fabbing up a tubular lower rad support for it. I boxed the sway bar mounts and am so glad I did cause it looks 1000000 times better. I also welded the holes for the windshield fluid line and the MAP sensor holes. I will be running the hose through the cowl and the MAP sensor is going in the inner fender area. The main engine harness is also going to be run behind the dash so no wires will be in the engine bay at all. I also trimmed down the pinch weld on the fire wall to clean that up a bit. I If all goes well Im hoping the engine bay will be painted by December and the motor will be going in. Anyways, enjoy the pics. I'll post the pics of the rear installed on monday.

DSCN0311.jpg

DSCN0312.jpg

DSCN0313.jpg

DSCN0314.jpg

DSCN0315.jpg

DSCN0324.jpg

DSCN0317.jpg

DSCN0316.jpg

DSCN0323.jpg

DSCN0318.jpg

DSCN0319.jpg

DSCN0321.jpg

DSCN0322.jpg
 

Attachments

  • DSCN0311.jpg
    DSCN0311.jpg
    93.3 KB · Views: 65
  • DSCN0312.jpg
    DSCN0312.jpg
    86.8 KB · Views: 65
  • DSCN0313.jpg
    DSCN0313.jpg
    86.6 KB · Views: 62
  • DSCN0314.jpg
    DSCN0314.jpg
    66.5 KB · Views: 72
  • DSCN0315.jpg
    DSCN0315.jpg
    88.3 KB · Views: 62
  • DSCN0324.jpg
    DSCN0324.jpg
    83.3 KB · Views: 63
  • DSCN0317.jpg
    DSCN0317.jpg
    55.7 KB · Views: 58
  • DSCN0316.jpg
    DSCN0316.jpg
    52.9 KB · Views: 56
  • DSCN0323.jpg
    DSCN0323.jpg
    56.4 KB · Views: 62
  • DSCN0318.jpg
    DSCN0318.jpg
    51.6 KB · Views: 58
  • DSCN0319.jpg
    DSCN0319.jpg
    67.2 KB · Views: 52
  • DSCN0321.jpg
    DSCN0321.jpg
    83.1 KB · Views: 53
  • DSCN0322.jpg
    DSCN0322.jpg
    79.8 KB · Views: 61
Here are the pics of my control arms painted and my rear end installed. Im waiting to install the sway bar cause Im going to re paint it orange.


DSCN0230-1.jpg

DSCN0231-1.jpg

DSCN0232-1.jpg

DSCN0233-1.jpg

DSCN0234-1.jpg

DSCN0235-1.jpg

DSCN0305.jpg

DSCN0229.jpg

DSCN0308.jpg

DSCN0309.jpg

DSCN0307.jpg

DSCN0306.jpg


Those rusty Ford C springs may be replaced by some eibachs I have, I just dont know what they are cause the part number doesn't come up on their website.
 

Attachments

  • DSCN0231-1.jpg
    DSCN0231-1.jpg
    76 KB · Views: 59
  • DSCN0230-1.jpg
    DSCN0230-1.jpg
    84.8 KB · Views: 61
  • DSCN0232-1.jpg
    DSCN0232-1.jpg
    80.6 KB · Views: 67
  • DSCN0235-1.jpg
    DSCN0235-1.jpg
    62.3 KB · Views: 61
  • DSCN0234-1.jpg
    DSCN0234-1.jpg
    50 KB · Views: 56
  • DSCN0233-1.jpg
    DSCN0233-1.jpg
    91 KB · Views: 71
  • DSCN0229.jpg
    DSCN0229.jpg
    94.8 KB · Views: 60
  • DSCN0305.jpg
    DSCN0305.jpg
    111.5 KB · Views: 55
  • DSCN0308.jpg
    DSCN0308.jpg
    100.4 KB · Views: 61
  • DSCN0307.jpg
    DSCN0307.jpg
    92.6 KB · Views: 64
  • DSCN0309.jpg
    DSCN0309.jpg
    98.5 KB · Views: 58
  • DSCN0306.jpg
    DSCN0306.jpg
    87.5 KB · Views: 58
Thanks, the weekends take so long to come around!!! I wish i could take a week off of work to work on my own car!!! I could get the bay done with a week straight or working on it for sure. I just gotta be patient.
 
Here's a little more progress for you guys, I decided that I am going to be running the engine harness behind the dash and the brake lines down along the k member against the steering rack so I fired up the welder and closed all of the holes that remained from the shock towers back. Tomorrow I will be working on fabbing up my lower rad support out of 2 1/2 inch exhaust tubing I have laying around the shop. More pics will be up late tomorrow afternoon.
DSCN0325.jpg

DSCN0326.jpg

DSCN0327.jpg

DSCN0328.jpg

DSCN0329.jpg

DSCN0330.jpg

DSCN0331.jpg

DSCN0332.jpg
 

Attachments

  • DSCN0325.jpg
    DSCN0325.jpg
    63.2 KB · Views: 55
  • DSCN0327.jpg
    DSCN0327.jpg
    71.8 KB · Views: 61
  • DSCN0326.jpg
    DSCN0326.jpg
    76.7 KB · Views: 50
  • DSCN0329.jpg
    DSCN0329.jpg
    71.4 KB · Views: 68
  • DSCN0330.jpg
    DSCN0330.jpg
    66.4 KB · Views: 63
  • DSCN0328.jpg
    DSCN0328.jpg
    61.3 KB · Views: 53
  • DSCN0332.jpg
    DSCN0332.jpg
    69.3 KB · Views: 56
  • DSCN0331.jpg
    DSCN0331.jpg
    73.6 KB · Views: 61
Badass dude.

Get rid of that pinch along the firewall while your at it. :D

I thought about it but its a ton of work and welding, plus if my hood flies up and I end up having to change the cowl my life will be that much easier to just drill the spot welds out. I did think about it tho. Hell who knows, if I get bored maybe I will. lol
 
Here's the progess I got done today, I was able to stay late so I got to get a solid eight hours done, damn customers are constantly coming into the shop so that slows me down a bit when I'm working on my car.
DSCN0356-1.jpg

DSCN0357-1.jpg

DSCN0358.jpg

DSCN0359.jpg

DSCN0361.jpg

DSCN0362.jpg

DSCN0363-1.jpg

DSCN0364-1.jpg

DSCN0365-1.jpg
 

Attachments

  • DSCN0356-1.jpg
    DSCN0356-1.jpg
    83.4 KB · Views: 59
  • DSCN0357-1.jpg
    DSCN0357-1.jpg
    90.9 KB · Views: 64
  • DSCN0358.jpg
    DSCN0358.jpg
    87.4 KB · Views: 53
  • DSCN0359.jpg
    DSCN0359.jpg
    70.4 KB · Views: 60
  • DSCN0362.jpg
    DSCN0362.jpg
    73.6 KB · Views: 51
  • DSCN0361.jpg
    DSCN0361.jpg
    65.7 KB · Views: 57
  • DSCN0363-1.jpg
    DSCN0363-1.jpg
    76.3 KB · Views: 62
  • DSCN0364-1.jpg
    DSCN0364-1.jpg
    67.5 KB · Views: 53
  • DSCN0365-1.jpg
    DSCN0365-1.jpg
    84.6 KB · Views: 62
Looks great , I like that Idea of covering up the part were the swaybay bolts onto, But how you going to tighten the bolts without them turning or did you weld them on so they won't turn? Good jobs