quote Originally posted by Archie: Curley, can you have the Arch Rival call me tomorrow, also check your EMail. BTW, tell him this one is coming along very nice. Archie

quote from the ArchRival: Yeah thats better..hmm? How bout' another pic with the top edge being horizontal instead of the angle for comparisons?

Still doing some glassing on the nose trying to get the corners of the openings just right.





We're also trying to work our way down the sides of the car. Doing the front wheel well lip & working on final sanding of the doors, rockers & rear fenders.





Don't worry about the difference between the rocker panel wheel well lip & the lip on the front clip, we have a plan for that.



Now I understand that we have more changes coming, so stand by.....






Archie

I love how you guys have the doors flowing into the quarter panels, and the ground effects are awesome. That car is very nice, especially since you guys are adjusting the nose.

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did you guys already figure out what your doing with the fender/hood to door thing? if not the one pic archie put up is good enough for me to photochop to show you what i was talking about. let me know.

Awesome work guys! It's great to see how the parts - as they are added and tweeked begin to flow into a final(ish) looking design.

Love the progress - from when I saw Norm to the front clip installation!

Dave

quote Originally posted by Finally_Mine_86_GT: did you guys already figure out what your doing with the fender/hood to door thing? if not the one pic archie put up is good enough for me to photochop to show you what i was talking about. let me know.

I think we know what we're going to do but feel free to do a PShop if you want.

It's going to be a few weeks because we still have to pull a mold off of the rockers before we build in that area.

We're doing wide body rocker molds but the "mold" will be BFFE. (Before Flipper Front End).

Archie

A [PIPE DREAM]: Dated 1/26/2006



[4.9's photoshop renderings]


[Reality check]

Well, it's close enough for me, hehe.

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This car is going to be simply sick !!

For those who doubted,.please mail apology letters to.........

hehehehehe

very nice... in that yellow photochop it looks hot!

quote Originally posted by madcurl: A [PIPE DREAM]: Dated 1/26/2006 [4.9's photoshop renderings] [Reality check] Well, it's close enough for me, hehe.

Damn, its really been over a year of surgery.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first Fiero that looks like a Fiero but doesn't. The Arch Rival will be that Fiero. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.

quote Originally posted by madcurl: A [PIPE DREAM]: Dated 1/26/2006 [4.9's photoshop renderings] [Reality check] Well, it's close enough for me, hehe.

all I can say is damn nice job and keep it up the improvments are exactly what are needed

A special delivery for madcurl's arch rival aka chop top #20.



Hmmmm,.....something from a Ford,......i wonder what it could be !?

I know, i know, i know !!! hehehehehe.

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A tube?

This is what it is:

TUB-ENG VEN BREA RR

That's all I found out. Engine Breather Vent Tube!

Can't wait to see how you'rer gonna use it.

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I ment to update this thread yesterday but I've been trying to convert some of my instruction videos to DVD's & that's a lot harder than you might think.

We're going to call this "Hot Wings Friday" because most of this week has been dedicated to installing the wings on Curley & Troy's cars.

So here is the Hot Wing update for Curley's car......

1st we used some self tapping screws to fasten the wing to the car....







Then we glassed the wing on & made cuts to split off the wing tips. After glassing the wing on, we remove the self tapping screws....







We'll have to do some work to blend the wing tips into the body....



..............

Looks great Curly!

quote Originally posted by XzotikGT: I love how you guys have the doors flowing into the quarter panels, and the ground effects are awesome. That car is very nice, especially since you guys are adjusting the nose.

That was part of one the clues from page 10 with regards to this pic:



While at the FieroRama show 2006, I was eyeballin' this car for several hours.

[Reality]


The idea was too, tweek the existing IRM rocker just a little....

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quote Originally posted by Archie: This was yesterday's update, I'll post today's update tonight.

Updates!!!!

Archie
a good program for converting video to DVD is power producer gold I have it and have done many of my VHS tapes to DVD without any problems .
Just a sugestion to try help you out

quote Originally posted by Archie: We're doing wide body rocker molds but the "mold" will be BFFE. (Before Flipper Front End). Archie

Hmm. I wonder how many PFF'rs will want them???

quote Originally posted by exoticse: Future widebody Jon Carlo's GT sporting a 18/20 wheel combo ! He reportedly plans to add a widebody to balance things out.

Hmm...a good question for the "What's up at Archie's" thread or a new thread started...hmm?

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AS of the end of the day Friday the Rival was all apart & sitting around the shop.

We've got the last of the glassing on the ends of the wing....





We have the decklid off to do the glassing on the underside of the wing.





Rob also had the time today to bend a piece of 1" sqr. box tubing to conform to the shape of the bottom edge of the new windshield.







Archie

quote Originally posted by Archie: Now I understand that we have more changes coming, so stand by..... Archie

Heading North:

http://fieroswest.westcoast...ges/westfest-010.htm

http://fieroswest.westcoast...ges/westfest-076.htm

Aww its not tha factory supercharged 4.4 you were hinting at

quote Originally posted by 4-mulaGT: Aww its not tha factory supercharged 4.4 you were hinting at

Project: "MOON RAKER" has a N* too.

Curley needs pictures to get thru the next few days without us.







Archie

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quote Originally posted by Archie: Curley needs pictures to get thru the next few days without us. Archie

Cerrrrtainly, nyuk, nyuk!

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Building the new "Pinch Weld" for the new windshield to sit on.

Welding in the bar accross the base of the windshield.



This is going to be what it look like....





The all Handbuilt Pinch Weld is welded on the car.....



Welding in some sheet metal to close off the front compartment from the interior side of the windshield.....



Archie

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That's going to look sleeky as HELL!

Greg

The "oldest" guy on the forum (Orville 70+ yrs old) is the person who came up with this great idea and Archie and the Crew is tweeking Orville's original idea. Who says, "Ya can't teach a old dog new tricks." In this case, Orville is teaching the young dogs a few new tricks and "Archie and the Crew" are conducting a "class" on tweeking.

Respect your elders, hehe.



Orville The "Duke" of my glass Inspiration

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Is that the original glas? That are moved up in the front or is that from another car?

quote Originally posted by Sharkman: Is that the original glas? That are moved up in the front or is that from another car?

The front glass is from a different car (pg17).

so what exactly is being cooked up for the interior of this beauty?

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quote Originally posted by UCFieroCharger: so what exactly is being cooked up for the interior of this beauty?

Pg. 13. Dakota Digital, 2006 Mustang vents, A tweeked Pisa center consol, and....

[my own homebrew renderings]

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