Looks like this is coming together. Can't wait to see it finished. Any updates with the headlights Archie?
FierociousGT did you decide on a color yet?

Keep us updated....

-Alex

Hello everyone... question about a car on Archie's site.. the gray fastback with the corvette tail lights on the widebody sales page... is that chop top? - Andrew

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quote Originally posted by FierociousGT: They don't come with a projector unless I retro fit them. They are H4. I'm going to go with the 6000k which emits 2900lm. I like a little tint of blue.

Notice the lights in the background and the sky turn blue?

quote Originally posted by FieroGTRwideboby: Looks like this is coming together. Can't wait to see it finished. Any updates with the headlights Archie? Keep us updated.... -Alex

Just a Bump for good measure

Hey Dave, or Archie,....

Any new pics ??

????

quote Originally posted by thelast_graham: Hello everyone... question about a car on Archie's site.. the gray fastback with the corvette tail lights on the widebody sales page... is that chop top? - Andrew

Yes, that is a choptop.

These pics pretty much explain what we're doing with the headlights......

These are pics from the last several days.

Not really showing much of the glass layup, we've seen enough of that in the last year or more.



















WE have lots of filling & sanding of the headlight surrounding area to get it all nice & smooth.

Archie

Now that's the ticket!



Boy, thats alot of fiber glass work!

Sweet !

Dave should be really happy with that.

Archie and crew really do some killer glass work !

Hey Curly you can't crack on Central Florida Fiero meetings (stock cars and 15" rims) any more hehehe !

Florida's only two v-8 archie choptops (mine- below and Dave's) both now belonging to CFF's !!

quote Originally posted by exoticse: Hey Curly you can't crack on Central Florida Fiero meetings (stock cars and 15" rims) any more hehehe ! Florida's only two v-8 archie choptops (mine- below and Dave's) both now belonging to CFF's !!

It isn't official until both car's wheels are rolling on Florida's pavement, hehe.

Seriously, you FL guys are going to have two nice choptops at your club meetings .

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quote Originally posted by FierociousGT: Here is my concept. Hopefully I don't get sued by the PFF member in Montreal for the lady I took from his pic. Concept thanks to the virtual cars tutorials at www.digimods.co.uk NOTE: *Driven Vision Extreme Hood Extractor had to have major modification due to design flaws and thickness. Practically it had to be reconstructed and doesn't resemble the original piece. ¹ Fiero Store's GT Turbo scoops had to be modified to fit the choptop. ² Fiero Warehouse IMSA front end had some modifications on the bumper mouth opening and wheel archs to support bigger wheels. Photoshop retouching was done on choptop #13 Blackdeath.

hehehe I see you picked my girl for your photo.. Nice to know that she is your favorite. :-)

She looks great....

O yea, Looks good too Archie

quote Originally posted by FierociousGT: She looks great.... O yea, Looks good too Archie

Well heck, the pics I took today don't look as good as your photoshop so no point in posting them.

Archie

Post them away please

Looking good!

Chris & Rob...

Dobry praca faceci

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quote Originally posted by FierociousGT: Here is another Photochop... Ferocious attitude...

Nice photoshop Dave.

Hey Archie, any additional pics of #025, cause I'm bored? We need new Pontiac excitement!

quote Originally posted by madcurl: Nice photoshop Dave. Hey Archie, any additional pics of #025, cause I'm bored? We need new Pontiac excitement!

Geezs, three pages back, I'll fix that.

We worked on the front end all week.

After working the headlight openings Kris went on to glassing in the front air dam & right now the front end is off of the car as he trues up the radii of the front wheel well arches.

I'm here to tell you that it's a lot easier to photoshop in a set of headlights than it is to actually get them installed right.

Here's some pics.



When you're quoting to put something like this together, it's hard to be exact because you never know what you're going to run into.

Here the tops of the fiberglass fenders have too much arc in them & don't match the hood so you spend time grinding down the fiberglass.





Doing this filling & sanding don't make for a lot of photo opps but it's gotta be done.

We don't get to take the green tape off of the lightrs until we are done with the heavy body work.



Right now the front end is off of the car again for more glass work........



Archie

Nice pics Archie and taking pics of the details or boring parts are fine with me. I'd rather view that any day vs. reading a dumb bashing thread.


When will the Lamborghini replica mirrors project start?

quote Originally posted by madcurl: Nice pics Archie and taking pics of the details or boring parts are fine with me. I'd rather view that any day vs. reading a dumb bashing thread. When will the Lamborghini replica mirrors project start?

I don't know, the mirrors aren't here yet.

You know there are always things that happen that are not anticipated.

Like when we got the nose for Troy's car it had a full "floor" across the bottom of the nose inside the grill opening. I think Troy's front clip had the "big mouth" option.

The nose we're working with here idoesn't have a "floor" in it. So it flexes a lot more when bolted in place. We are going to have to do some extra work on it to firm it up. Still looking at our options on that right now.

Archie

Hey....can I paint those edges while it's off the car?

quote Originally posted by FierociousGT: Stopped by Archie's today to touch base and drop off the new headlights. Also reviewing the trimed turbo scoop sail panels for my choptop. O' Really? We should have some updates in the coming month.

Cool. We need some Pontiac excitement! Oh yeah, who was taking the pictures?

quote Originally posted by Archie: You know there are always things that happen that are not anticipated. Like when we got the nose for Troy's car it had a full "floor" across the bottom of the nose inside the grill opening. I think Troy's front clip had the "big mouth" option. The nose we're working with here idoesn't have a "floor" in it. So it flexes a lot more when bolted in place. We are going to have to do some extra work on it to firm it up. Still looking at our options on that right now. Archie

quote Originally posted by madcurl: Cool. We need some Pontiac excitement! Oh yeah, who was taking the pictures?

Choptop #4 looked bored so she took the pic

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quote Originally posted by madcurl: Geezs, three pages back, I'll fix that.

Three pages back again. Any new pics yet?

Not much to report, just more sanding filling & shaping.

We've spent more time on the nose of this car than we've spent on everything else.







Archie

Looking good.
Archie are you going to fill in the lines?

quote Originally posted by troyboy: Looking good. Archie are you going to fill in the lines?

Nope, he wants the nose seperate.

Archie

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quote Originally posted by troyboy: Looking good. Archie are you going to fill in the lines?

quote Originally posted by Archie: Nope, he wants the nose seperate. Archie

The reason it's not getting filled is if the bumper has to be removed for any reason and if I'm not mistaken red box is one piece [PIC 1]... Right Archie or is it separate so we can fill the lines and do this[PIC 2]?

[PIC 1]


[PIC 2]

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Its gettin there....

Bondo bondo maaaaaaannn, Krrriissy wants to be, a bondooo man....put in that 20K ventalation system in yet Arch?

quote Originally posted by AutoTech: Its gettin there.... Bondo bondo maaaaaaannn, Krrriissy wants to be, a bondooo man....put in that 20K ventalation system in yet Arch?

Well the story with the bondo is we want it very smooth to make a carbon fiber flip nose. It's looking ripe and ready to eat . I will definitely need to get gray primer on it . I already shipped it with the ventalation system installed .

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quote Originally posted by FierociousGT: I already shipped it with the ventalation system installed .

I was talking about a vent system for the shop, but thats cool. I actually did the bondo work for the hood scoop, rear widebody, doors and wing on your car as well as fitting the rear bumper. It was the first time I did all the body work by myself, (with some advice from Kris of course), and it came out great if I do say so myself

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Any more pics, any more pics!