Some pictures of a custom corvette painted the color Madcurl is planning to go with. This Canadian car was pictured in the sept, 06 edition of modified luxury and exotic cars magazine.
Thanks Tony. I finally got back to Pennock's. Oh yeah, the movie was great! As Tony mentioned, I've been secretly eye balling this beautiful custom Corvette wide body for several years and the color is what I'm shooting for #020 and my paint guy in CA can't wait to lay down some pearls. The only major difference is the lower fascia and ground FX will be painted black. Just like in the pictures, the Corvette dude's front-end has "kissed thy earth" and I don't want to repaint the entire front clip if an accident should occur.
Edit: The Corvette is rolling on 20/22 combo. 255/30/20 fronts and 355/25/22 rears. Now that's some beef!
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Looking good Archie. The Ford vents are perfect. Darn Pontiac dealership didn't want to sell me the G6 vents so I opt for Ford. For those who may not know, I only replacing the front end of the dash and not the back end. I see nothing wrong with the Fiero's original dash, just the gauge clusters and vents are IMO outdated and in need of a face lift. Just like #011 & #015 the original dash will be re-skinned.
Originally posted by madcurl: I see nothing wrong with the Fiero's original dash, just the gauge clusters and vents are IMO outdated and in need of a face lift. Just like #011 & #015 the original dash will be re-skinned. Keep what's good and replace what's outdated.
Once all the vents & pretty stuff are mounted on the outside, someone has to go under the panel & everything functional & serviceable.
In this case Kris went inside and built a couple of walls to form an air box so that the air that used to come out the center dash vents & make it come out these 2 new vents.
That air box will fit right up to & over the modified Fiero center outlet.
The Radio surround.....
The mounting for the radio & heater controls
Before we went home tonight all these mountings were glassed in to make them permanent.
The original design of the humount faceplate was designed so that once the stock Fiero surround faceplate was installed, the 4 screws in each corner of the humount plate would not be visible.
Just a suggestion but is there a way to hide those 4 silver screws?
Edit...nevermind...I see now that the pic is from the back.
Actually you're correct, but in my case I will remove the phillips screws and use black hex screws from the local hardware store that are similar to the hex screws used on the stock dash/bezel/vents.
Frontal pics;
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Thanks for the updates Archie. The dash is starting to take shape, especially the vented area. Can you stand back 25-feet (or as far-as-you-can) and take a picture of the hood?
(Scientific survey being conducted @25ft)
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Originally posted by PaulJK:
Since you already have the caddy instruments on the side, this might be all you need for the driver:
Thanks for the "heads-up" display. Due to limited room, we''ll have to wait on that after the dash is finished. side note; the Caddy's "heads-up" display is a plug n' play using the N* and Caddy instrument pods, but as noted I have limted space using either system.
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Hmm. I'm thinking about having the area that surrounds the air/heater switch pod cut-out and sent to the business in Canada (Humount faceplate) to make a custom surround for the air/heater pod. This way the entire area will appear OEM as one-unit.
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Plan A; I hope to have the exterior painted by Trendzs here in CA by November-December (like the Corvette above). I don't foresee any additional tweaks for the exterior, but I'll need at least 1-month for everything to marinate. I'm looking at 6-8 weeks at the paint shop, so in the meantime I want to take it all-in while #020 is in the garage.
Plan B; I can always wait until March-April 2009 for paint and in the meantime tweak a few interior semilar to the Corvette's interior above. Either way I'm in no rush.
Originally posted by whodeanie: I know some day you will get it done.
Today was busy day wrapping and boxing the Baer brakes... all 90 pounds of them. I hope to have Kevin at Design 1 System install them. Since the Baer rotors are a different set-up, Kevin will use a mock-up car (87) making it a (somewhat) easy swap transfer.