Captdistraction's ST2/GTR build thread Build Thread

[captdistraction]

This is the one I ordered: http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/7337150583.html?orderId=72913505127464

 

[ArizonaBOSS]

This is the one I ordered: http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/7337150583.html?orderId=72913505127464

THE BEST ONE!! (According to their own product picture)

 

[302 Hi Pro]

Nice! Thanks for the information.

2HP

 

[captdistraction]

Picked up some freshened parts:





The brakes were powdercoated, and the bmr brace is new. Picked up all new seals and boots, bleeders etc for the brakes.

Not much, but continuing to inch towards the finish line

 

[ArizonaBOSS]

Is that the color that the interior is getting sprayed? Should look good if so...

 

[captdistraction]

The top is a ceramic-silver powdercoat (cerakote), the bottom is just canned silver spray.

I like the silver a lot though that I might swing the painter this way. There's been plenty of discussion about what will happen (multicolor options, etc), but I hope to land on something simple and elegant.

 

[Fabman]

So what's the with white stuff and the hammer?
Are you freezing the sound dead with dry ice and bamming it with a dead blow hammer? Is that what's going on here?
Pure Genius. Way cleaner than warming it up with a torch and scraping....

 

[captdistraction]

It worked for the big stuff, but still required a torch and scraper, then wire wheels, then d/a sanders and then even Mexican labor. I still have to go over it with acetone, scotchbright, finer d/a discs and repeat this weekend

 

[captdistraction]

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Nomex honeycomb installed


Brakes rebuilt






Finished painting the underbody and cleaned up the cage, hood and tail some

Making progress, slow but moving forward. I can't wait for the day to test fire this thing, it's far overdue

 

[captdistraction]

Finally some more progress:



Initial drilling done on the Watson center plate and now I've bought everything outside the firesystem, cool suit system, windshield and passenger side belt. There's a couple odds and ends but I hope that's mostly it.

And a racing brake abs controller. Le sigh

 

[superhero]

You have put your heart and soul into this project with limited funds. this shows your desire.
Keep up the great work. Your getting close to being able to drive it. I didn't what to say complete because a true race car is never complete.
as they say: a build in progress.
good luck and hope to read about your next phase completed on your Car.

 

[captdistraction]

Played hooky from work a bit and made a lot of progress in paint prep. 12 hours of sanding, scrubbing, vacuuming, etc it's ready to taped and rolled into the booth. Also did some prep work on the electrical, installed a moroso overflow bottle, and changed some through bolts to riv but inserts in the body.

So there's a possibility I can take the car home this upcoming week. Once paint is in and glass is on, it's just a matter of playing with some large scale Legos and should be in business soon.

There's still a great lot of bodywork to be done still but I'm hopeful it all goes smoothly (pun)


















For the record, scrubbing and sanding with solvents to get every bit of shine, pipe prep and removal of every last bit of butyl sucks to an incredible degree. We have something like 2 full weeks of man hours into that

 

[captdistraction]

Another incremental update:

Car's prepped for paint, and in line for the booth. I've had to go back and re-purchase some lost parts: headlight switch, infocenter switch (since I don't have the abs controller yet that renders that useless), brake MC locking pin, and turn signal stalk. I have the key cylinder and housing with plug, does anyone know if there's anything else in the column I'm forgetting? I can't tell outside the clockspring in diagrams. Looks like some fuel jugs are also on the list of MIA/pending replacement.

All just part of what happens with a year long project that's moved locations 4 times during that period.

 

[F.D. Sako]

Any little progress is good!

I recently purchased some VP racing 5 gallon fuel jugs. I found the best deals on autoplicity.com
Their search engine kind of blows so here's a link of the best keyword search that returns fuel jugs, so be patient. Also, when you first visit the site, a pop-up comes up asking for your email for a 20% off shipping code. I can't find the code or I'd share!

I think it came out to around ~$26ea shipped, ~$23ea w/o shipping. Some colors are cheaper than others... supply/demand I guess.

 

[captdistraction]

Sold the white line watts link today, instead going to choose either the cortex or BMR units. They both have their pluses but I wanted something that had more roll center adjustment than just two positions

 

[steeda5]

If you need use of a trailer... let me know. Its not all that, but it works. tires are new. What a kick ass build! I would say your a true AMERICAN not AMERICANT! LOL
Brian

 

[captdistraction]

I might just take you up on that, I might need use of one to get it from the paint shop to home to continue the build in the next week.

Picked up some more watson bits today:

Trunk bumpers for big wing'ed decklids, fuel pump blockoff plates, and a odb2 plate

 

[302 Hi Pro]

I might just take you up on that, I might need use of one to get it from the paint shop to home to continue the build in the next week.

Picked up some more watson bits today:

Trunk bumpers for big wing'ed decklids, fuel pump blockoff plates, and a odb2 plate

I should mention that the fuel rail supply line fitting needs a special removal ring tool to unclips the fuel line fitting.

2HP

 

[captdistraction]

I keep those around, I've had to change the line from the GT line to the boss 302 line during this build as one of the 1134879843723 little things that had to be addressed along the way.

 

[captdistraction]