don;t you have any protection againts stones inside your wheelthingies (cannot find the right word)? Looks like bare metal to me....

or is it just the pic?

very cool look with those fittipaldi's...

gonna be 1 cool cabby...

Nope, nothing there.

Thanx, mate :D

Todays update

I finished "tearing up" my dieselengine :)



Now it is ready for some cleaning and paint. (Sorry for some out of focus pictures)






This is the plans for the engine
- Beige engine bay
- Completly black engine
- Kl-een`ing of the engine bay
- Install a hidden InterCooler (in front of the radiator)
- Hide all cables etc.

Painting the engine

Well, todays task was to paint the engine.

After some good cleaning the engine was ready for some black paint :)



And the result when I left the garage tonight.. back in black

Postman Pat came today.. all the way from Germany :)



And what did he bring me?
Finally!! My new "strut-towers". Some major mods at the garage .. ;)



I also got this. :)

Good work!

very nice project keep up the good work!

Todays update..
 

Modifying the strut towers
Tonight I started to modify the strut towers.




First I cut 20mm of the old tower. I used a DREMEL tool for best control :)




Then I cut the new towers. I cut them 50mm and that gave me 30mm extra drop ;)




After some adjustments it was ready for welding. I am doing this tomorrow.
So stay tuned folks :)

cool solution, nice work too.... :cool:

Thanks. It is ALOT of work, but the result is :rock:

Yep, that IS a very smart solution for that extra inch of drop. Never thought of that, good thinking.

Todays update..
 

LOWRIDER!!

Tonights goal was to finish the tower modification and get the ride down on the wheels again... I made it so keep on reading ;)

The last tower was removed.







Welded some points just to be able to adjust later if something was wrong.
This angle shows how high the strut is now.




Then I had to install the suspension and the wheels.....




LOW!!!




"Toit as a tigah"



I just had to take the "Lucky Strike shoot". I was not able to get it under ;)

It has to be sooo precise, or else your car will never be ligned up right...


sooo much respect for this work...

:woowoo:

I know. That`s the reason it took me some hours just to cut the towers. ;)
Everything is looking just fine so I don`t have to adjust anything. :)

I think the mod came out very nice. I got the drop I wanted with it.
Now I only have to modify the frontstruts for those last mm drop ;)

Todays update..

I continued working with my engine tonight. Washed and sandblasted some parts.
I also painted my waterpump and dieselpump. You spot the difference? ;)

Before:



After:

not afraid of getting paints in parts that you don't want, and messing something up?

Everything is masked or removed :)

nice...it will be scraping roadkills when you ride it like that

OMG thats sweet :)

Nice work. I was reading this treat en was thinking about these ''towers''. Should your bonnet(hood) close nice? I like the wheels and the tires, so clean..

gr