Can't wait to see it done, go go go!!!
You and me both dude!
The past few days have continued to be extremely productive in the shop. I dare say I've done more work on the car in the month of December than in the entirety of 2013. Sad, but true
Today I glassed in two more support boxes. These two are RIGHT at the rear end, and will help lift up the butt about an inch. The shell curves down significantly on the back end, which is a flaw in the mold/pull. I'm going to fix a little bit of it with support arms, and the rest will have to be resculpted/re-glassed.
I also did a bunch of work on the two front under-fender pieces. Basically they just needed some clean up, a seam patched up with filler putty, and I laid in a little bit of extra fiber on the back side just to toughen them up. Next step for them is to build a lip on the shell to attach them to.
The BIG news is that we ONCE AGAIN repositioned the engine. Because we are finally getting down to the nitty-gritty of mounting the shell onto the frame, a lot of attention is being paid to the location of things. before we were just not being this specific. The newfound attention has revealed a lot of new... challenges. One of which is the height of the engine. Because we have established what the ride height of the frame will be (which is 1.5" higher than resting on the bumpstops) AND we have formalized exactly where the shell will be sitting in relation to the ground, we realized the engine needs to be lowered an inch.
Since Bo is such an amazingly talented dude AND he happened to build the mounts in such a way that they could be easily modified, Bo banged it out in just a couple of hours this morning.
