Naked!

The T-bird body gone.

Bessie's New Grill

She's mean looking...

Rear view

What competitors will be seeing

Good Match

Never thought it'd go that smoothly

Trial run

Setting the body on the car

Sitting Pretty

Roughed in

Doors on at ride height

Cut to fit

Cutting the front end down to fit the shorter wheelbase

Like a glove

Can't tell this was ever a T-Bird

Grrrr

Looks MEAN!

Ground Zero

Minimum clearance on the front end

Get low

Looking back

Oooh La-LA!

A460 Intake

Thanks Trick Flow!

Shiny Valves!

Again, Trick Flow

A460 HEADS!

Where the power comes in!

Reinforcing

Dan welds braces around the anti-roll

Fixed

The only part of the car that didn't fit is fixed

X-Brace

To further strengthen the car

Stripped

In one day, I got the car stripped down for paint

Sanding

Frankie helped me sand the cage for prep

Adjustments

Eddie makes adjustments to the body

Primer

Josue primes the chassis

Paint

Josue then paints the chassis new shiny black

New view

Checking the new view out

Relocated

Checking the fit of my newly relocated seat and steering

Sheetmetal

Getting the sheetmetal powdercoated

CFL Powdercoaters

Jeremy from Central FL Powdercoating helped us out

Driver's Seat

All back together

Intercooler

All cleaned up and reassembled

Exterior next

Next up is the exterior paint

Polishing

Polishing the front wheels

Dirty Job

Chop helping me polish

Body Work

An extensive amount of work goes into make the body ready for paint

Smooth and Ready

Final touches are done to the body work

Heads Ready to go

Worked over by CFH Performance

Turbo Inlets

Here the turbo inlets are molded into the front nose

Turbo Inlets Finished

The turbo inlets are molded and complete