then the epic 1400km journey home started, once at home, it sat in the yard unregistered untill the last weekend in sept, when i finally decided to start something, I completely stripped the shell, only leaving minimal interior components in.
after completely stripping the car, i fabbed up a lower radiator support from 2mm sheet and then welded it in and dressed everything up.
after that, i cut the lip off the front of the radiator support and seam welded the front up and dressed the welds to i could sit the intercooler a bit further back. then I decided to do something a bit different with the front skirt where the intercooler piping comes through.
i cut come 3 inch holes in the skirt then extended them at the top.
I then made up some braces out of 6mm round bar and welded them in. After welding the welds were file finished and dressed to a smooth finish.
then the shell was transported to a local pannel shop , who very generously allowed us to use the premises after hours to prep and paint the car.
we added a few custom touches to the shell, which are as follows:
aerial shaved and all guards pumped by 25mm.
after all body work was completed the car was high filled and blocked down. Next was to mask up the car and paint all the shut pannels which turned out very well. afterthe paint was completed in the shuts and engine bay, the roof was painted. Once the painting was completed on the roof, we moved the car out of the booth and blocked the car again where the paint was over sprayed on to the exterior pannels when the shuts were painted.
We then started final prepping of the body for the paint, all pannels were masked and any holes covered up. We the nwashed the body down with prepsol and srarted painting . As the car is painted in a 3 layer pearl , we laid down a base colour first, then the main colour and finally the clear. after the base coat was laid out, the pin stripe was also masked.
basically the car is just waiting for a cut and buff , then all hands on deck for a 12 day fit up.
huge thanks to all involved so far,
Ritchie and Rob at highland smash
Taylor from Taylor Made Body Craft
Everyone at Mittagong Subaru
Family and friends for their ongoing support and my GF Ami for being amazingly understanding during the build.
anyway , enough of the words, heres some pics untill now.
all comments and criticism welcomed. thanks for looking, Ben
Love progress pics though bud! Lookin awesome!
also got the intake in today, car ran.
tomorrow, rear end, exhaust exterior mouldings and interior.
wednesday rego inspection, oh fork yeah.
