1979 Fairmont Drag radial/x275 project - "The Cream Dream V2.0" by tirefryin_s10 & bmxarmy

By diyauto
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4 minute(s) of a 183 minute read

3-4-2012

I could only wish it would fly now.........Home for 2 days, leaving tomorrow for 2-3 weeks for work With any luck I will finish sooner and get to be home for a little while.... But we will see. Next time I am home I will be going hard on getting this thing in paint. Its kind of holding up the project at this point.

Anyways on to the updates and pictures!

Neil prepped the back of the kirkey seats to be painted matte black so they blend in to the interior a bit better.

kirkey seats
One done one to go

kirkey seats
Test fit

Ford Fairmont drag car

The seat covers are black will hide the front side.

While he was fooling with that I made a mount for the C02 bottle behind the passenger seat

CO2 mount

CO2 bottle

CO2 bottle

Next we moved to the trunk and pretty much got it all finished up other than yet to be ordered ice tank and Neil is getting the fire bottle filled so when he gets that back I am sure it will go in too.

fuel cell

fuel cell

fuel cell

The inter cooler fits in there so good, I think it is gonna look pretty clean when its all plumbed in. I also had to weld in new bungs for the fuel feed and drain, not sure on the size but it looks like you could hook up a fire hose!

car underside

fuel cell

I then moved onto fitting up the first charge pipe, Did some careful planning and cutting on the beauty panels, in hindsight we should have waited for coating until fitting up all the piping but its also nice to be all done now.

rear seat panels

turbo pipes

turbo pipes

turbo pipe to liquid to air intercooler

Neil snuck a shot in of me tig'in up the new v-band.

welding

v band welded

Lastly today we sorted out all the interior panels that are going to be re-used and test fit them quick. Neil is going to dye them all black and get em ready for install.

Ford Fairmont interior panels

Thats all for now, see you all in a couple weeks....



Comments

This is great!

Posted by Diggymart on 11/3/20 @ 5:48:21 PM