A few more steps completed on my way to final paint!

I stripped the underside to bare metal, primed with metal etch and then used a product from U-pol for undercoating. It's actually a urethane based bedliner material and has a little sound deadening quality to it. Best part is I think it will outlast fossil fuels before it ever rusts again!

Here's a couple pics of the undercoating process:


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Couple more:

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Next came cutting in the trunks and engine compartment with GT silver:


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Looks nice....but I wouldn't bet against a few years of salt, slush and road acids......

Very nice!

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Like, WOW, baby.

wow, that looks very nice! do you have the exact name of the product you use to undercoat it?? I am sure that paint was expensive to!

Last one for now. Next comes a final coat of primer on fenders and final sanding, then the last of the damn painting!! (sorry. I hate painting!)

Can't wait till paint is done so I can start playing with nuts and bolts again.....I'm growing tired of sand paper and lacquer thinner.


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The liner product is called "Raptor" from U-pol. I purchased it from the supply house I get my paints from, but I've seen it on e-bay. It goes about 100 bucks for a kit with applicator gun (shutz gun). I used two kits with a quart left over. As far as paint $$, yup it's expensive. I'm using Glasurit product and it's nice stuff. Really nice high build easy sanding primer and the silver and clear seem easy to work with. I do need to get a slower reducer though, it's got a little orange peal to it.

How you say, show finish! Very nice job and wish I could do that but am just getting one detailed for painting. I wanna do one from the tub up some day. I don't think it gets better than what your doing there.

Wow! Wonderful job. Looks like your putting in a six? Can't wait to see it done. Wish I could do that......

Great pics and ALOT of effort....

It's amazing how much time is spent cutting, welding, filling, sanding before the paint is finally applied. I go by the 90/10 rule, 90% of my time is spent on 10% of the project, then 10% of my time is spent on 90% of the project, ie, putting the stuff back together....

Congratulations on your project...

-- Rob

looking good!!!

Yeah......it's getting a 6............a 3."6"!

I can't wait till it's time to plunk this in (hopefully in a couple weeks )

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is that a 901 tranny?? can it handle the power of that 3.6??

looks like a converted 915 to me

No way in hell that is a 901.

looks like a wevo conversion on a 915 to me

Nice work, cant wait to see it all together

that is looking like a very well thought out project!.....details details!

Sure does look good, keep of the great work.

Yup.....it's a Wevo 915. Its got the Wevo bearing retainer plate, gate shift, all new syncros, bearings, etc and a factory limited slip. Hopefully it will hold up a while??

It used to have an oil cooler/pump and spray bars in the tranny, but that got deleted with the Wevo conversion work.............but that's another story!