American Iron 03 GT

[Domination]

The fun begins. Unfortunately, its needs just a bit of fixin before the cage work can ensue.

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[shawnsvtcobra]

What happened??

[Domination]

he spun it on the highway, and smuged the nose off the wall.

[Stangman701]

Looks like it's gonna be a fun project

[Steve-0]

Nice, I like those wheels alot.:thmbsup: Keep us updated on the project as it progresses.

[Domination]

Back from the frame pulling shop. The front rails where over almost 7 inches from the wreck! He got and 03 cobra hood and nose to put back on it. Hopefully the rad support and bumper bracket will be here shortly.


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[wick]

That bugger is comming right along nicely.

[fork5o]

looks like its coming along. i know exactly what your gonna be doin, mine look about the same just on the passanger side. it was a fun project. good luck with your and keep the pics comin :goodidea:

[Domination]

Still waiting on a rad support. So I'll start the cage. The rear seat sheet metal came out really cleanly with my new blue point spot weld cutter


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[stick76]

Looking good so far fellas...any thing out of there that anyone needs is definitely for sale as its already over budget. Available stuff right now...Complete Mach 1000 Stereo system, All 4 leather seats (both of which are spoken for but in case it doesn't work out), door panels, headliner, rear interior quarters, A/C compressor and lines and some misc items. Also, I have a set of charcoal 17X8 Bullitt wheels that came off of it with about 20,000 mi on it as I put the cobra R brake kit on and they won't clear. Keep up the good work guys.

[Domination]

Coming along nicely. Here is my man Dan preping the front frame rails for the new rad support.



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And here is that nice new piece welded in






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Unfortunately we where under a extremely short deadline, so refinishing is going to have to wate till after he races this weekend. So we snapped the panels on for some track time. mmmmmmmmm cobra.




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I even had the owner, Chris, helping to get this thing ready to run on sunday. Here he is measuring for support straps that go on the plexi winshield.



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And finally the plexi installed.





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Lucky for Chris he did well this weekend, so I won't kneecap him for makin me work so much. The car should be back to Domination tonight to continue with the cage.

[Domination]

and some more.......... The torque arm panhard bar rear end setup, and a dope sway bar.


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Tubular K member, 1.5 in offset controll arms, bilstien coil overs, canton oil pan, offset steering rack mount, solid joint steering shaft.


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Can you say Caster!?!?! Sweetness!

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Up top, more sheetmetal came out and a little more cage went in. Trying to get this thing down to 2800lbs with driver is gonna be tough.


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[fork5o]

wow, thats comin along great!

[SonofaBish]

yea, looks even better in person!!!

[Domination]

Now that the suspension is done, its time to get the interior finished up.


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[somethingclever]

looks sick!!! :awsome: :awsome:

[Domination]

oh it just won't stop!



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and threw the firewall to the shock towers

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Heavy fab work is almost done!!

[somethingclever]

If it ever kisses a wall again...i bet the chassis won't be out 7 inches...LOL :laughing:

[Steve-0]

Wow, that is alot of very good looking tig welding.:thmbsup:

[Domination]

So far its been mostly MIG. Now that its down to some more fine detail work the TIG machine will be making alot more appearances.

[Rodeheaver's]

pretty nice man, i like it alot

[Domination]

Thanks Tim. I have some tricks up my sleeve that I won't even tell the owner, but this one will keep getting better. Trust me.

[Domination]

and a bit more. I hope you guys like a lot of pictures!
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Chris's idea for the location of the battery cut off switch turned out nice.
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Getting close to painting the interior.

[Pure Stock]

Looks real good man. I noticed you cut the steel away and removed the crash bar from the driver's side door. Was that crash bar worth removing weight wise? Again, looks sweet man.:goodidea:

[Domination]

lets continue to make some progress huh?

old front bumper beam = steel and heavy!
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new hand made aluminum front bumper beam = aluminum, nice and light

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little finish work left. I'll keep ya'll posted.




And, the seat in.
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[Domination]

Looks real good man. I noticed you cut the steel away and removed the crash bar from the driver's side door. Was that crash bar worth removing weight wise? Again, looks sweet man.:goodidea:


Driver's door can be gutter if NASCAR style door bars are added. NASCAR bars are alot safer so..... gut the driver's door.

[Domination]

been a while huh?

been alot of little finishing work but the cool new thing is my dimple die set

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Got the engine fired back up too. The body panels are due in tomarrow from paint. It should be outa here by the end of the month!

[shawnsvtcobra]

Congrats man, you car came out nice man. , love the mods.

[Mater]

Congrats

[Killercanary]

That's a bad ass project!!! I've never seen anything like those dimpled gussets/fillers, they add a "mad max" feel to car, it looks mean as hell!

Nice job on the welds too! :)

[Viper_ed]

Looks like you're building a rental car for the next time Cole Trickle is in town! :pepper:

[87notch]

You guys are doing an awesome job on the metalwork:goodidea:

[Domination]

Looks like you're building a rental car for the next time Cole Trickle is in town! :pepper:


HA STOP THE CAAAR COLE!