37 Ford LS2 Continuation thread

[wheelhop]

Ken,
why don't you come down to Chevellabration with us in that convert before you tear into it? It's the weekend of June 10th?

You might be on Hot Rod power tour?

[Postsedan]

Ofcourse he`ll be on the Power Tour, it`s his time chill!

Dan

[kwhizz]

Taking the car to the Upholstry shop tomorrow.....I held off on finishing the dash until I knew that we were going to get the GTO Dash Module to be functional.......Since that happened, I can now finish up the install......Here are some pic's.....I originally roughed in a basic frame for the module......
Starting point.........



Bent up another Bezel to form a outer frame so the module will be recessed in the final assy.......














Partially Finished

Ken

[CC Rider]

Nice work Ken!

[ORIGLS6]

Here's the part I've been waiting for. What's your framing; rod or tubing?

I'm anxious to see the blend of old and new on the dash. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[kwhizz]

3/8&quot; dia x 1/16 wall tubing......Bent everything by hand.....Patience and minimum Brain activity are all that's required...........LOL......Just dropped off the car at the Upholstery shop so I'm not going to get to do anything on the Dash today.......I had my camera with me today, but I was so excited about getting the car in, I forgot to take any pic's....But, it's only a 1/2 hour away so I'll be posting progress pic's as Dave progresses........Looking to get it back on May 15th, that will give me a week to bolt the sheetmetal on so I can (if the Planets are in alignment) take it to the Automotion show in the Wisconsin Dells......

Ken

[kwhizz]

While the car is in for upholstry, I got the dash roughed in ready to go back to the body shop for finishing and painting........got all the garnish mouldings ready also....





After a bunch of head scratching, I decided to only build the center A/C vent into the dash.......I was going to build two more (one on each end of the Dash) into the dash, but there was so much of a profile change in those area's that it wouldn't have looked right......so I make some Aluminum bezel plates and mount them just below the dash at each end..........
The blank area in below the center vent will get a CNC'd decorative emblem made to fill in that area........couldn't mount anything in that area that had any depth to it as the A/C unit is right behind that area and there just isn't any room..........
I also got the headlight buckets stripped, modified for the Halogen light kit, painted and assembled, they are just waiting for the car to come home for installation...













Ken

[markjohnson]

Ken, I'm so impressed by your ambition and drive to finish this project. A lot of it really hits home to me because I used to work in a very similar shop and built several cars there one piece at a time. Now.....I couldn't actually bring the entire car into work but I'd work on a different part everyday after I finished my &quot;official&quot; duties and bring the pieces home for installation. I always worried about if anything would ever happen to that job how difficult things would become as far as car-building.

[kwhizz]

Yep!!.........Believe me.....I know and understand that what and where I'm doing this is being the &quot;Ultimate&quot; spoiled brat...........

Ken

[70 Forest Green Zee]

Ken....any pics from the upholstery shop or is that in Hiatus SC too? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]