Daveman2
Autox Blazer
So I was driving along, and I hit a Peugeot 505S and slower than 30MPH, I just looked away, he slowed down for no reason, and when i looked back I had no time to brake
and it looked like this
This is how my car looked before
(Original Photo courtesy of Steve at Steve510.com)
I want to keep it S10, I like the design of the front end, but I'm not sure whether to return to it's oringal way, or paint the bowtie, shell, and valance. Right now I'm thinking of painting the entire grille shell.
I have to replace the front headlights, turn signals, core support, radiator, hood, front fenders, bumper, plus a few odds and ends.
My plan is to install my grant kustoms rollpan and smooth the rear end, and return it to nearly the same condition it was in, but shave the roofrack nuts, rear wiper holes, front antenna hole, and have the rear windows, mirrors, and doorhandles painted. I plan to have the rollpan only smoothed to the bed corners, but not the cab, so that when I want to work on the rear of the car it will be really easy to take off those parts. I will still be taking out some other cab seams though. My main point with this car is to make it look good, but how it performs and how easy it is to work on is more important. By having all of those panels connected it should be really easy to mount and dismount with only 8 or so bolts. It gives it good looks, but with race car simplicity.
For paint color I'm thinking of respraying it the same color, but maybe update it with a pearl clear or something interesting, I'm going to talk to a custom paint shop soon after I get the insurance check. Respraying it a different color would incur alot more cost for the doorjambs, engine bay, and stuff like that if I wanted it to look like it had always been that color.
Here's my progress since tues when the adjuster came:
And I've already started work on alot of the little touches, like a custom ECU mount I'm going to make out of my old Overflow that the ECU sat on.
New overflow coming:
New PS Cooler coming:
then I saw this lol
some I'm probably getting that now.
I will be revising the air intake system I had before, and hopefully everything will be more refined. The e-fans are being swapped to the other side (grille side) of the radiator, and are going where the A/C condensor used to go, just for example the power steering cooler is going behind the radiator and not through the core support so it won't run under and through my cold air intake box, so more power, and overall the engine bay should be alot cleaner.
I still have to install my battery relocation kit as well, so there should be alot of good changes coming, and alot of wiring being shifted around. I'm also getting a notch, going and going to drop it 3/4" more in the rear to level out the ride.
Sorry for the long post, just got alot of stuff coming, I'll let the pics talk. Should be be getting alot done this weekend.
So give me your suggestions, comments, and ideas!
and it looked like this
This is how my car looked before
(Original Photo courtesy of Steve at Steve510.com)
I want to keep it S10, I like the design of the front end, but I'm not sure whether to return to it's oringal way, or paint the bowtie, shell, and valance. Right now I'm thinking of painting the entire grille shell.
I have to replace the front headlights, turn signals, core support, radiator, hood, front fenders, bumper, plus a few odds and ends.
My plan is to install my grant kustoms rollpan and smooth the rear end, and return it to nearly the same condition it was in, but shave the roofrack nuts, rear wiper holes, front antenna hole, and have the rear windows, mirrors, and doorhandles painted. I plan to have the rollpan only smoothed to the bed corners, but not the cab, so that when I want to work on the rear of the car it will be really easy to take off those parts. I will still be taking out some other cab seams though. My main point with this car is to make it look good, but how it performs and how easy it is to work on is more important. By having all of those panels connected it should be really easy to mount and dismount with only 8 or so bolts. It gives it good looks, but with race car simplicity.
For paint color I'm thinking of respraying it the same color, but maybe update it with a pearl clear or something interesting, I'm going to talk to a custom paint shop soon after I get the insurance check. Respraying it a different color would incur alot more cost for the doorjambs, engine bay, and stuff like that if I wanted it to look like it had always been that color.
Here's my progress since tues when the adjuster came:
And I've already started work on alot of the little touches, like a custom ECU mount I'm going to make out of my old Overflow that the ECU sat on.
New overflow coming:
New PS Cooler coming:
then I saw this lol
some I'm probably getting that now.
I will be revising the air intake system I had before, and hopefully everything will be more refined. The e-fans are being swapped to the other side (grille side) of the radiator, and are going where the A/C condensor used to go, just for example the power steering cooler is going behind the radiator and not through the core support so it won't run under and through my cold air intake box, so more power, and overall the engine bay should be alot cleaner.
I still have to install my battery relocation kit as well, so there should be alot of good changes coming, and alot of wiring being shifted around. I'm also getting a notch, going and going to drop it 3/4" more in the rear to level out the ride.
Sorry for the long post, just got alot of stuff coming, I'll let the pics talk. Should be be getting alot done this weekend.
So give me your suggestions, comments, and ideas!
