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

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From: "magicalbus2004" <magicalbus2004@xxxx>
Date: 2004/05/12 Wed AM 03:00:22 EDT
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] First post from Bruce J :building the Gremlin

Welcome aboard feel free to post pics of your Gremlin or send them to me at badass73gremlin@xxxx and i'll gladly post them for you
Bart Mangrum
73 Gremlin 360/T10
Moderator'BadAssGremlins'



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.