Slow but steady.

Full time work, school, and demanding son does not always allow me to spend the time in the garage as I would like. Sitting in a cube daily definitely doesn't help the process either.

Work on the track car may seem slow.... but steady. Finally got around to spraying the main portion of the shell. Still need to paint the hood and doors and over fenders once they arrive, after I order them :)

This car should come together fairly easy once the paint process is complete, almost there.

Barrett Jackson 40th year Anniversary Auto Auction 1971-2011


Monday night Jared and I spent the evening enjoying a special preview of all the cars being auctioned off to the public and highly paid professionals. The world's best collector cars and antiques.












Such an awesome event! If you have never been you should definitely plan to attend the next Barrett Jackson Classic car auto auction.

Practice Practice Practice

Definitely utilized the two week fall break between classes; made progress on both the daily driver and track car.

Practice makes perfect..... one day

OG wheels

Weekend warrior

Economy sucks

Gas Prices are high

Daily driving great distance

So I did the math and realize my 6.0 Chevy 2500 is not the best vehicle for daily driving especially using premium gas... O_o

In preparation for a productive New Year spending less on unnecessary expenses I acquired the Honda civic. From 13 miles per gallon to 35 miles per gallon... The civic will do the trick.

Civic used strictly for daily driving, being the #1 stolen car in America I had to add security features. In addition I couldn’t roll the bucket in its stock condition. She's showing signs of aging.

Decided a facelift is needed to improve her self-esteem.

Saturday spent time sanding, sanding, wet sanding, and more sanding.

With progress made I was able to mask off and spray Monday night.

Facelift complete ready to roll.











Track Car waiting its turn...
Need to finish glassing inner fender panels and minor body work first

Movin on to Paint (100% GARAGE BUILT)

Over the last two weekends Ralph and I have been working through the "prep" process of the track car. Though it may one day see a wall among other possibilities, we like to ride in style. Putting forth a little extra work now will definitely pay off later.

Moving on toward paint; interior and engine bay were both primered last Saturday, this Saturday the interior was ready for paint. The color for the interior and exterior were Purchased from ADCO (http://adcopaint.com) located at 67th Ave and Orange wood Ave (623 842-4470).

Always use ADCO; the family owned business has proven helpful countless times. I'm no body expert so any advice they give is golden in my book.

Purchased new paint guns, da sander, paint, and materials. Building a car is not cheap!!!

New spray guns are more accurate and lay paint maybe ten times better than the Harbor freight ones we started with. - live and learn



With a little more body work to go and over fenders to order tomorrow the exterior should be ready to paint next weekend.

excuse the crappy "G1" cell phone pics; I know I'm overdue for an upgrade

Hittin the streets

Karlo, Damin, and I cruised the streets tonight just to enjoy the weather.

What other state offers 90degree weather mid-day December and 80degrees at night; only Arizona.

Few quick pics

Track Car on the way....

This weekend Dionte and I spent time working on our track car; 95 240sx slick top.
Finally time to finish the body work and move on to paint.
Thanks to Ralph at RJ's(602-487-5410)for helping shave the engine bay.

Side note...

Little Thanksgiving fun with the boys.

Went riding Thursday and returned with missing skin... O_o

Nothing like the great out doors!

Alignment

Finally found some time with this last weekend to work on the s14.

Drove down to Dysart and I-10 to get the alignment special.

By the way this is the only shop I trust with my wheels even though the building is yellow. Ask for DoeBoy or Cain, other shops have turned their backs when in bring in my double sided 19 chrome wheels. One manager said I never seen a tire like this, "how in the world did they make it stretch".

Only trust Llantera LLamas

Any who car sits pretty now waiting a gangster pull (fender roll)







Started with outrageous toe and -4.5 degrees of camber on one rear wheel while the other sat at -3.5

Very content with adjustment; running 265/35 on 18x10+15 with -.5 degrees of camber.

Prime

spent the morning preping the cage for paint. Not bad for two dollar cans of primer and Arizona heat to bake it.

A day to do work....

Ran around all day starting at 8am though plans were to begin working on the track car early in the morning. Either way progress was in order this weekend, from yard work to driving all over town to prep for paint with the track car.

Today I focused on body prep; I had planned to primer the car to allow plenty time to wet sand once again before paint. Obviously that did not happen.

Previously I should have premiered my caged as soon as it was purchased from Full-Race. However that was not the case, but you live and learn. To clean the surface rust created from the rainy season I purchased scotch brite. I used the same method on the cage of soapy water and scotch brite as prepping the exterior of the car.

Much thanks to my buddy Karlo who helped with the entire meticulous task completed today.

After almost two years of sitting on the shell it feels good to see everything coming together...