The Stickman's BattleCruiser Build Thread by The Stickman

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Well I got my flanges in for the manifolds. Have to say they are pretty darn nice. I will be getting the weld els probably next week. So one step closer to my turbo manifolds.

6-9-2011

Hey I actually got something done today. Since I have owned the car the passenger side rear door has never worked. Well now it does. Kinda. It will open from the inside. But I need the plastic clip that goes over the rod and into the handle for the outside to work as well. I never saw a need to fix it realy because it never got used. The reason I fixed it? Well it's time to start on the door panels. I have seen other peoples work and want to give it a try. So I took off the front passenger side panel. Stripped it down to the door card. I was going to coat it with fiberglass resin while on the car figuring that would help it hold its shape. But even then it looked wavey. So I took it off laid it on the bench and used a cylinder head to hold it down and put a layer of fiberglass cloth and resin where it was flat. when it is fully cured I will do another section. Then once I get them all done like this I will decide on how I was it to look. I would like to redesign the arm rest and make it look better. I also took a look at doing my airdam splitter. Think I have it figured out for the most part. Just have to start making all the pieces to put it together. I am going to make two noses. One for street use where the splitter will be 5 inches off the ground. And one where it will be 2 inches off the gorund for track days. I amd going to make it all a quick change arrangement where the bumper, airdam, and splitter are all one piece and can be unbolted easily from the outside.

6-10-2011

Look what I did today. This is just the start of the piece to fill the gap between the nose and radiator support, cover the top of the rad support, and cover and support the top of the radiator.

I also did some more work to my door cards. I am going to have to decide how I want my door panels to look soon.