Brendon's '67 Firebird thread by Tuske427

7 minute(s) of a 286 minute read

I made some progress this weekend on the inner fender. It's pretty much wrapped up, and the next project will be the trunk extension. Everything was going great until around 3 something this afternoon when a neighbor called the cops on me to complain about the noise. Apparently, there's a "no power tools" ordinance in my town- which is geared towards construction. The officer was very friendly and seemed to like my project, explained to me that a project like mine is a grey area as it's not really construction, so the complaining neighbor, who wished to remain anonymous, would have to press charges and take me to court. bleech....

I also ran out of welding gas, but, at least I was able to get through the day. Coincidentally, I'll be busy the next month so they'll get their quiet, just not for the reasons they think... Pics attached.

6-24-2012

Wow, it's been a month since I've posted. Where does the time go?? Oh yeah, 2 weeks overseas for work and a vacation tacked on afterwards.  

Anyways, last I left off working on the trunk extension for the passenger side along with a recessed battery tray (idea courtesy of Wayne, thanks!). On the day I left for China, I started building a basic box slightly larger than the dimensions Optima has on their website. Only I didn't leave myself enough material so I had to add a bit more. (Math never was my strong suit)

I was able to get back in the garage yesterday and add the bottom to my battery tray, as well as recycle the last of my original tail panel- I saved the pieces in between the tail lights. I used these as supports for the bottom of my battery tray box. I also made a frame rail brace, and boxed in the frame in that area. I also worked on trimming the trunk extension panel to make room for the battery box.

Of course, my Eastwood welder pooped out on me (will deal with that this week), but I still have my Miller so I continued working with that for the day. Hopefully I can get more time in next weekend.

7-1-2012

Just a quick update, I got a little work in today (This weekend was busy attending the Hot Wheels double dare loop at the X-games. BTW pretty cool if you haven't see it: http://www.youtube.com/user/HOTWHEEL...?v=c6PQ49B5Gpw ) by attaching the battery box and getting the truck panel welded in. I still have a bit more welding and one patch panel to add on the back side, then I can clean it up and move onto the next project...

7-11-2012

I had some time over the holiday weekend to work on the car, but didn't have a chance to post pics until now. I did some rudimentary work- installing the bumper braces (which didn't align anymore, so I had to cut and rebuild them) I trimmed the center panel in the trunk down to fit, as well as trimmed the brake light brackets to fit (they work now). I started to build my recessed fuel neck area. My goal is to modify this so I can use a modern fuel pump to refuel. I don't like how the fuel pumps (here in CA, anyhow) all have those "vapor recovery" devices on there and make refueling old cars a nuisance. I will build more of then when I install the tank and figure out the filler neck. I also trimmed the driver side front wheel opening, and am currently working on the inner fender. I also need to follow through on the fender extension, and then trim the passenger side.