Today I painted the core support semi-gloss black. Taped off and left the emissions control label that says "SYCLONE 4.3" on it. Its a real OEM Typhoon core support.




Then installed both inner fenders which were just painted semigloss black as well.
This is the first time I have had the front end put back on since I relocated the battery to the trunk. What a great mod! Saves a ton of space up front!





Got on the left fender. The right one still needs to be blocked again.



Installed my freshly blasted and painted bolts in the fenders.




Here are both of my toys side-by-side. My 85 LT1 Jimmy and my 02 Yamaha FZ1. I think the FZ1 is faster unfortunately with just over 400lbs and about 140hp...

 

And through all this, the baby slept! So this little guy is going to grow up with a AWD LT1 truck in the garage. Lucky kids, I grew up with a Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royal Brougham in the garage. hehe

 

So now we have both fenders installed. And have been fitting, and test fitting the goodies. Lookin good and blue!

 

So today I started creating the brackets to mount the blinkers in the bumper cover. I also worked on straightening out the fog light brackets and mounting them.

I mocked up my stripe as well. Looks like 18" down the bumper and the front of the hood, then 19" at the rear of the hood and then 19" down the roof, and 18" down the tailgate and rollpan.







Then set my hood pins on the hood to see what they would look like and installed the passenger side bumperette.


And the under hood shot with all the blue! WOOOT!

 

I started installing the hood pins I got from HoodPins.com And it was very scary! To spend over $400 on a hood and then drill holes in it?! Ahhh!

Anyway, it worked out just fine and they good great! I need to adjust them and install the scuff plates. Figured it would be easier BEFORE paint!

 

*Wipes away drool*

Sweet project, I really wish I had the time, skills, patience, money, and other resources to do something like this. Kudos to you on all of this. Can't wait to see the finished product!

 

I have been working on installing all the lights in the front of the Typhoon fiberglass bumper cover. The marker lights needed some brackets made for them out of scrap sheet metal and the fog lights need to be bolted in.





The issue with the fog lights is that they came from a Typhoon that had a head-on collision driving the wrong way on the freeway. One is straightened and corrected. The other still needs some work, as you can see in the picture i badly bent and out of shape (you should have seen it before I started!)




Here is a picture of the front of the wrecked Typhoon the day I bought it. haha Can you believe the fog lights and brackets are still good? haha

 

So I decided to hit up some salvage yards for some goodies today. I had a pretty good score thanks to a cash for clunkers 1993 Blazer that was in great shape.


Nice interior as well except for the fact that someone left the pass window down and it just rained.


The score...
- 4 fender flares
- Fender sound deadening baffles (guess I lost one)
- Front bumper side brackets
- Overhead console (including harness)
- Rear view mirror with lights (including harness)
- A bunch of misc bolts I needed (like my missing torsion key bolt)
- Seat side covers
- Factory 1993 S10 Blazer cassette tape!

All for the grand total of ... $43 with tax!

 

Ever since I went to the salvage yard on Saturday I have been thinking very seriously about changing the truck up a bit. I finally made up my mind yesterday and today I went back to that salvage yard and got some more parts.



I got two great condition 93 Blazer doors and a nice wiper cowl for $90. heh






So any guesses what I decided to do?

FOR SALE:
Two 1st gen S10 doors with shaved door handles and locks. Primed and blocked and ready for paint! Cut-in with Corvette Admiral Blue. lol

 

I'm not a big hood pin fan either. I don't like them much at all actually but I ran into a big issue with my hood latch. Zach mounted the engine in the forward position. Jeff was going to move it back but decided to keep the stock Typhoon drive shaft lengths. I agree, its better that way. So that means that the engine sits where the radiator used to, the radiator is inside the core support where the A/C condenser used to be, and the A/C condenser will take the place of the vertical support for the hood latch. This leaves me with a few options. 1) Custom fabricate and weld a new vertical support and hack up my grille for it to fit. 2) run the truck with no A/C 3) use hood pins and leave the vertical support off and keep my A/C.
Answers:
1) Im not a machinist or fabricator. I dont trust myself or anyone else to make a support properly so that my hood wont fly open. I dont want to hack up my grille.
2) I live in Texas! The nice months are 100+ degrees, GOTTA have A/C!
3) I have the hookup for some sweet hood pins and its a different look for the truck. Done.