My name is Earl, and I have a Stainless Steel bolt fetish =)

[jc43089]

Roll dem fender like a pro!

[Earl]

Saturday turned out being more of a planning day than a working day.

On Wednesday I dropped my valve cover and intake manifold for my buddy to machine the lines off. He finished that up on Thursday. I was going to pick them up Saturday but ended up going home before he got to his shop.

I attempted to tackle the rear fenders. The only thing I happened to accomplish was that I destroyed one of my lug nuts=/ I'm having a local guy do my rear arches now. He is said to be a wizard so lets see how they turn out=) He is coming out this Sunday to do them.

Since I was fed up on trying to do the rear arches, I figured I would put my head on the motor......figured wrong here. I forgot to order the gasket that goes between the head and the timing case. Now I have to order that and wait for it to arrive.

I was all sorts of flustered at this point but couldn't leave the shop because the buyer for my Volkswagen beater was coming to pick it up. I ended up cleaning my part of the shop up, as well as the spot next to me while I waited. The guy who rents the spot next to me took his car home to work on right before I got to the shop. It gave me the perfect opportunity to clean his side up and get all the leaves out from fall=P

Once the Volkswagen was gone I was happy to have $600 to put back into the compact=) I'll spend some of it ordering that gasket and lug nut today.

The only other thing that I accomplished was setting up this Saturday to get my bay welded. If everything goes according to plan, this weekend will be full of progress. We will see. Things don't seem to happen as they're planned lately.

I'll leave you with some pictures I took after cleaning the shop=)

(It's aired up in the back since the fenders are unrolled)

(carpet needs a good vacuum)

[B C]

Earl said:

Cool Corrado, bro.

[Earl]

Snap said:

Cool Corrado, bro. 

It's actually a Malibu Maxx. Get it right!

[B C]

then why have a sideways 4popper in front of the car and a VW logo over the door. 

If it was indeed a Chevy your garage would look like this 

[Earl]

Now my thread is ruined......

[B C]

you'd better re-evaluate your life next time you want to accuse yourself of driving a malibu maxx. 

Finishing your car and driving it to a meet is the only means for redemption.

[Earl]

Snap said:

you'd better re-evaluate your life next time you want to accuse yourself of driving a malibu maxx. 

Finishing your car and driving it to a meet is the only means for redemption. 

I should get a malibu maxx emblem or corrado emblem and put a magnet on the back for when I roll into shows=)

[Earl]

I did a little cleaning and painting yesterday=)

My alternator was filthy and in need of a coat of paint. After applying a whole lot of brake cleaner and wire brushing I got this:

I then applied the wrinkle black:

That was after around a half hour of curing. It fully wrinkles after a 2 hour span of time. We will see how it turned out on Saturday.

I also gave my alternator and crank pully a nice coat of paint. The tensioner pully spacer also got some love.

The gasket I need for the head should be here today so hopefully that will go on Saturday while the bay is being welded up=)

I can see the end but there is still a ways to go.

[Earl]

Took my first roller today too

[Earl]

Saturday was great.

My friend Kyle came over and dropped the valve cover and intake manifold off.

He also installed my head for me.

I then installed the exhaust manifold after my friend John polished the nuts.

I then painted the valve cover and intake manifold and only saw them cure for an hour. (Forgot to take any pictures of the intake manifold)

I then packed up for the night and left after midnight.

Both the bay welding and fender work are pushed off until next weekend because the welder has to work and the fender man lent his roller out and it was forgotten by his friend.

Progress is still coming steady. More to come Wednesday.

[Jeff]

Looking great earl!

[alexw]

Nice work pal!

[Earl]

Thanks guys;)

[johnprusinski]

way to go earl. its coming together great.

[Earl]

johnprusinski said:

way to go earl. its coming together great.

Thank you princess=) It's only from your motivation

Got a few things done yesterday.

The upper intake manifold and valve cover turned out great=) I love how simple they look shaved with the wrinkle black.

I got curious as to how the hardware would look.

I think I'll be leaving the washers raw instead of polishing them. I am so happy with how the motor is coming together.

The bay also started getting welded up. My friend Jeremiah ran out of gas shortly after starting so he only got a few holes tacked shut. He will hopefully be back Saturday to continue=)

I also just noticed that these pictures seem to look worse and worse. A new phone is needed and I will be picking one up shortly. A good camera is a must=D

[Jeff]

looking great earl hurry and get "r" done

[Earl]

Jeff said:

looking great earl hurry and get "r" done

No rush=) I would rather get it done right the first time

On a side note, welder couldn't make it Saturday and Lil Joe still hasn't gotten his roller back to do my fenders. Nothing got done this weekend at all

[Earl]

Been a while since the last update.

Zero progress on the welding and rear fender work. Trying to get all that sorted out.

I am hopefully placing my order with Downstar this week for the hardware kit for my engine. I've just been sorting out what bolts will be able to use their beauty washers. Unfortunately there are three m7 bolts that they can't source because m7 is hard to come by=( I will try and figure that out.

Yesterday I reorganized and cleaned my shop spot up. I also took pictures of things with my new phone because the camera is much better=)

Enough talking, on to pics.

Here is how far the bay got the other day before running out of gas.

Hopefully this next week I quit dragging my ass and get this back in gear.

[Jdesign]

This is looking awesome man, just went through your whole build. Keep up the hard work!