Re: [BaadAssGremlins] First post from Bruce J :building the Gremlin

[Davis Martin <martin-davis@xxxx>]

Bruce,

 Welcome to our little spot on the web. I know you from the forum. I am sure you will like it here, no bickering and great folks.

 Davis

magicalbus2004 <magicalbus2004@xxxx> wrote:

> Okay the foram's down it's late, got bored,Then I found this. It 
> seems This is the place that is much more speacialized to what I'm 
> doing. I've got a 74 gremlin X that the previous ownner bought  10-
> 15+? years ago it was unmolested,But the Guy parked it out side. It 
> was a car bought new for a tigard(Oregon) high school cheer leader it 
> had the usaual digs asssociated with a teen age driver but an ongoing 
> collony of mice and a squirle or two distroyed a restorable car. So I 
> bought it cheep and soon after loged on and lucked out to get a 77 
> Hornet AMX in fair shape soon after. So now the gremlin has front 
> disk brakes with lowering blocks, a ford 4spd, an extra posirear end 
> and a 258 I had done .040 over, milled for 11.5 to one, and ballanced 
> with oversized valves(FORD/CHEVY), and my own porting.I'm building a 
> steet racer. Don't get
> me wrong I WILL not be racing people on the 
> street. I just want a fun and very safe sports car with the stiffness 
> only a unibody with frame connectors and a full roll cage can 
> deliver.Kerkey seats will be delivered this week their mounts will be 
> welded to the roll bar kit I got from Chris's . I hate carpet but 
> also noise, so all the holes in the pan were welded and coverd with 
> cross linked glass fabric and epoxy. The hump got a further covering 
> of kevlar/carbon twill, and the rest of the floor pan , a final layer 
> of carbon cloth/ epoxy. the carbon/kevlar turns out to be a curious 
> overall color( from a distance) a kind of dark lime green metalic, so 
> I think that will be the overall color of the car( maybe with dragon 
> scales) The male mold for the composite front end is nearly compleat. 
> It has a 74 grem hump hood with 78 hor fenders grem grill and head 
> lights, turn sigs mounted below. nostrals like a javelin only forward 
> and and
> a brand new spoiler blending in to fender flares. pictures 
> seem to be easyly posted on this sight so i will be posting soon just 
> want to get te rest of the carbon fiber layed in the pan and primer 
> on the front end plug. I will be selling a few front ends off the 
> mold, Mine will be epoxy glass with some carbon/kevlar 
> panels.Priceing is still to be determined(time will tell). The first 
> Female molds to be made Will be pulled of the front plug and adapted 
> to make rear fender flairs in epoxy/glass that can be bonded to the 
> rear fenders. More later. Bruce J.