2022-23 winter car/shop projects?

Blown 89

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Winter is usually when we get out and do things in Arizona but there have been a few projects I've been holding off on until it cools down. I need to tear out the interior of my V to replace the sunroof shade and fix the rear light housing as well as do some mechanical maintenance.

An on track accident forced me to take my shifter kart apart and rebuild the suspension, steering, brakes and do some frame work. My four stroke's brakes aren't working either so I'll be doing deep dives into both of them and hopefully add solar to the race trailer.
 

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Currently pulled the interior. Did a deep clean on the seats, steam cleaned the carpet, cleaned and moisturized front and back of all the panels. Adding sound deadening, RF modular wired to what would be the fog light switch if it had fog lights, hidden antenna since the hole in the fender is welded and painted and laying welding cable for a trunk mounted battery, 18 guage ti the light bar for a DC jack for a lighted windscreen and wiring in the saleen fuel pressure and oil temp gauges.
Then I'll be building the drivetrain inside over the winter and sending out my 11" wide staggered set of OEM saleens for chrome.
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Track toy needs a lot of work.

Transmission, fire system, new rear end setup and I'm going to go heavier on springs.

Not as much as last winter but still enough.
 

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I am on the hunt for either a 2020 gt500 or 2019 gt. If the latter I will be doing either a whipple 3.0 or 3.8.
That's a big price difference between the two.

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My 14 year old son and I just picked this up as our project car. Paid only 4K for it. Couldn’t pass it up. Original v8 auto transmission.
That's a great buy! Wish I could find stuff like that. Cool color as well. Does it run?

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It was literally the deal of the decade. Body is solid no rust. Paint is home garage quality so it will get attention later other runs drives good. I threw on my fr500 on the rear just for the hell of it. I love notches with fr500s
 

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Bdubbs

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It was literally the deal of the decade. Body is solid no rust. Paint is home garage quality so it will get attention later other runs drives good. I threw on my fr500 on the rear just for the hell of it. I love notches with fr500s
That's kinda what I like about it! The paint isn't perfect, I'd drive the $hit out of it!

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I ended up moving the diecast display case. Wasn't happy with where I had it.

Might pull the gauge cluster out of the 90 vert soon to replace the bulbs.
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Man, makes me want to get my car back from my buddy and start working on the notch. Just have so much stuff to do on the black cobra and such. I hate paying someone to do my work on the cars however dropping the IRS for the springs and such in a small garage seems like a pain in the ass, not to mention I’ll be taking the exhaust off before hand to swap to my Borla’s finally. Moving this week to an apartment next to my house. I’ll be keeping my house, and getting this apartment in addition with the ladyfriend.
 

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Oh here is my other project going on 2 years. Should be done by spring or at least going to get mini tubbed by then. The notch was just unexpected purchase I’m ready excited to get this on the road again.
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