Being a body guy I apreceate when someone spends this much time on the details. I have seen many a porject like this turn out bad due to a rushed paint job. Glad to see you arent rushing to finish, thats how mistakes happen. The more time you spend on it the better it will look.

 

Update... The truck was painted a little over a month ago now and I have been SOOO busy. Working 6 day weeks ever since it was painted. Trying to spend time with the family and my four kiddos...

Anyway, I ran into an issue. I have the truck painted and want to bring it home. PROBLEM. I dont have room yet. I need to finish the shop in the back yard so that i can empty the garage and move everything into the workshop. This means I need to FINISH THE WORKSHOP... So that is what I have been working on for the last few weeks... almost daily.





Slowly but surely!

 

Its wet sanding and buffing time. Suck.


You can see here, the right part is cut and buffed, the left side is not. Look at the reflection of the light in it. The right is like a mirror, the left side looks good, but not a mirror finish. The buffed part looks AWESOME!


I have a few places to go over. I need to repaint the grille as the stripes are a bit off and the top is a bit dry.
Here is where I burned through a stripe on the hood while sanding its mirror smooth. Suck.





The truck looks so sad sitting there under all that dust. sniff sniff

 

Well hopefully soon enough you get right back to working on it "full" time and we get to see this thing progress more.

 

and you know Greg, once you finish cutting the body, you're gonna need to ripout the driveline, so you can properly clean (detail) everything under there too.

looks like your other project is coming along quite nicely as well.

like everyone else, once she's back together, i'm lookin' forward to seeing that first road test.

 

I put my door handles in the blast cabinet and cleaned them up a bit. I plan to paint the body colored to match.




I also decided to pull the intake and paint it red when it get it back home. It will match the fender hash marks, look cool and look like the Grand Sport's LT4.




So back to the nightmare of the wiring. This is a project that I think I have concluded is over my head. I either need to break down a pay someone to do it (which I don't have the funds for), but a new harness from a company like Painless ( which I don't have the funds for), find a buddy who knows A LOT about vehicle wiring and electrical systems who can help me, or buy ANOTHER truck to strip and copy the wiring on it, or just give up and pull out the Ty harness and go back with the old 85 Jimmy harness with no power accessories like the Ty has and no Typhoon/SoGT gauges. I am SOO frustrated with the truck now.

My nightmare


At least it looks good


I installed the lights and re-ran all the front end harness wires.


Well, we have light! Headlights work, the stalk on the steering column broke and the high beams are stuck on, the blinkers aren't working either, but we have markers and running lights. The brake light switch is busted as well so I don't know if they work either. What a PITA.





And the shop is near completion. A guy is coming to finish the drywall next week. Im painting his truck for his as a trade. There are some good perks to managing a paint and body shop. heh Anyway, I finished all the wiring in it. The list... Front room has 8 20amp outlets, one ceiling mount tv outlet, two runs of CAT5 cable, one coax cable, one dedicaded A/C circuit, four dual T8 bulb fixtures, one ceiling fan, an alarm keypad, alarm motion sensor and door sensors. The back room has 6 20amp outlets, two dual T8 fixures, a ceiling fan mount, and an alarm motion sensor. And the outside has a motion light and one 20amp outlet. Not bad for a backyard "shed".

 

looking great can't wait to see the finished product.

 

This is going to be such a badass ride. Are you planning on dynoing it once you've got everything complete?

 

Thanks guys.

I would like to. There is a 4 wheel dyno not far from my house.

 

This is coming along nicely, I can't wait to see them both finished.