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Old 10-21-2009, 09:30 PM
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Steve by any chance have you kept a record of the Hours that you have invested in your car, Not including the time invested by the Body and Paint Shop; Just what you have spent working on the car and related parts. If I had a penny for every customer who asked why does it take so much time I could take the family out to dinner at a 4 star restaurant? When I tell people they are looking at a minimum of $10-15,000 just for prep and paint you should see the looks I get.
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Old 10-21-2009, 10:26 PM
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I'd like to bill for the hours Steve has spent explaining, documenting, and photographing the entire procedure for us.

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Old 10-21-2009, 11:49 PM
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Steve by any chance have you kept a record of the Hours that you have invested in your car, Not including the time invested by the Body and Paint Shop; Just what you have spent working on the car and related parts. If I had a penny for every customer who asked why does it take so much time I could take the family out to dinner at a 4 star restaurant? When I tell people they are looking at a minimum of $10-15,000 just for prep and paint you should see the looks I get.

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I keep track of my time on the car by buying calenders. It's easier than using a calculator. I bought the car on 11/11/2004 and have been working on it ever since - just about every weekend since!

I probably have at least another calender to go before it's finished.
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Old 10-22-2009, 01:01 AM
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Bought it on Veterans Day
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Old 10-22-2009, 01:13 AM
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If I had to guess I would say that you have 1500 thus far. You can't rush quality and it shows as if you made sure all the details are just right.
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Old 10-25-2009, 05:21 PM
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Steve, when that car is finished you need to have a BIG PARTY and invite everyone....
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Old 10-25-2009, 08:30 PM
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Are you kidding? When he is finished we need to have a big party FOR Steve.
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Old 10-25-2009, 08:31 PM
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At this rate, it will debut at my daughter's Sweet-16 party. As you may recall from this never-ending, epic Odyssean thread, she helped me assemble the engine when she was 8...she's in high school now.


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Old 11-17-2009, 02:39 AM
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Picked up the fenders on Saturday. The high schooler took some time out from her busy social calendar to help me hang the drivers side fender. And the wife helped with the passenger side fender. The drivers' side fender took about 5 hours to get close and the passenger side took about 3 hours.

Even though both fenders were prefitted and the body work done with the fenders on the car, the shims that were used did not give the right alignment so I pretty much started from scratch. I found that to get the door gap right I had to alternate between one floor jack under the back of the subframe and another under the front crossmember. I would raise the middle of the car to get the bottom half of the gap right, tighten the bolts, let the car down and then raise the nose to get the upper half of the door gap right and then tighten it. The second generation F-bodies are a pain in the butt as the center of the front of the door by the body line, scissors inward along the outer edge of the fender while the bottom and tops of the doors scrissor outside of the fender edge. It's rather maddening to get it done without shreddding the edges of the paint on either panel.









The door gaps. The factory spec is .220 +-.04 and I was able to get them around .19. They still look pretty wide but any closer and the front edges will rub/chip off the paint.


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Old 11-17-2009, 02:44 AM
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good work! Gaps are so important and your attention to detail is what makes this build superior!
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