HM2017 Build

[Jeff K]

More pictures.

[Redstang69]

Jeff, glad to see you're making progress. Yes it's been pretty quiet on here. I haven't had much motivation to do much, mainly because I'm at the body work phase and hate the thoughts of starting it and the mess.
I don't know if I'd recommend putting the body together and driving it or finishing the body work. Driving it is great, however once it drive it, that's prob what you'll want to do and not want to do body work haha.
Have you fit body panels yet? Wait until you get to the trunk lid, probably will take a good bit of work to get molded in.

[Jeff K]

Ben, yes all the panels have been fitted.

[Jeff K]

Temporary assembly of the car is pretty much done.  I still need to install the front frame extensions and related pieces but need to modify them a little first.  I'm happy with the way the car turned out.  I have my first DMV appointment for registration this Wednesday.

[Redstang69]

Panels and gaps turned out really nice Jeff.

[Jeff K]

Finding an air cleaner that fit was difficult.  Between the engine sitting high in the engine compartment and my intake manifold being somewhat tall, there wasn’t much room.  Plus I wanted as much filter area as possible.  I see pictures of big engines with small round air cleaners and I know they’re losing HP.  I ended up buying a 15” long oval air cleaner.  I had to modify its base so it would sit as low as possible on the throttle body.  I also had to lengthen the cutout in the hood for clearance.  I had earlier modified the hood scoop to increase the height of the front opening and profile.  Turned out I needed every millimeter of the added room.

[Jeff K]

Here’s some pictures of the hood scoop modification I had earlier made.

[Redstang69]

That definitely is tight. To me it seemed like wanting black really limited my selection.

[Kamal]

Looks great Jeff! And I'm glad to hear your DMV registration is coming along. 

Even though I have few miles on my car still, I have managed to remember to tell everyone to watch their leg as they step out of the car!

I plan to get the Shell Valley heat shields, as they come in Ceramic and will match my header finish.

https://www.shellvalley.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=140/mode=prod/prd140.htm

[Jeff K]

Installed the aluminum panels in the radiator opening recently.  There weren’t any instructions so I looked how others had done their cars and did something similar.  I don’t plan on installing an oil cooler, at least for now.

I also installed panels to close the gap in the rear wheel well between the body and cockpit tub.  Again I looked at what others had done and came up with what I thought would work.  I’ll seal the edges with seam sealer when I install the panels for the last time.

While I was at it, I added aluminum extension panels to the back of the rear wheel wells also.  I think it gives it a more finished look.

Still trying to dial in the EFI.  It’s been a challenge.  I think there’s a sensor or something that’s not right.  I’ll keep working on it.

[Bob Worley]

I like the rear fender panels.  I need to do the same soon.

[Redstang69]

Looks like you did your front panels similar to mine. Pretty straight forward. I added some bulb seal at the top to help seal it off a little.