Broken Wing Project. The 'Bird

Guide coats with other color primer helps alot.




The rest of the week has been kept in the house. I can't handle the heat too good. The other day I thought it was just me untill I seen this on my back deck.

RebStew wrote:Black it is then....

very funny George .. i don think soo

Hey stew done a little photoshop what you think..

f#$kin bad a$$...

HAha.... Cool car. I'm not sure it will go green. I have no place to paint a car right now anyways.

hotrodaaron77 wrote:Hey stew done a little photoshop what you think..

thts awesome !!!

RebStew wrote:HAha.... Cool car. I'm not sure it will go green. I have no place to paint a car right now anyways.

paint it at ur mommy's house! nd u said it was my car so i could pick the color! what happened to tht George ?

Buy the paint and I'll paint it whatever color you want me to paint it.

get me a job then ill buy it so you can paint it whatever color i want (;

howd it run friday night?

It was running good after it warmed up. It had been sitting for weeks.

RebStew wrote:Pic of the wheels I bought for the Bird. No work yet. Just collecting parts. 17X8 for the front and 18X10's for the back

The picture is the front rims I ordered a while back. I bit the bullet and bought the back ones a few minutes ago. Having dropped over $800.00 on rims is not uncommon now a days but for this guy it is not something I would normally do. The tires will kill me. I'm looking at over $1700.00 in rims and rubber by the time I'm done. I'm not sure if building these cars are worth that kind of money.

Wheel Diameter 18 in.
Wheel Width (in) 9.500 in.
Wheel Material Aluminum
Primary Wheel Color Chrome
Wheel Finish Chrome
Manufacturers Wheel Series Summit Racing Legend 5 Series
Backspacing (in) 5.750 in.
Offset +12.00mm
Wheel Construction 1-piece

I think the wheels make the car or at least brightens it up a bit. I've always liked the Crager type of wheel. Good choice!

nice

That will look great!

i got my 275/40s and 315/35s for my t/a from tirerack.com for about $425

That's not too bad. I'll have to check with them.

It took a long time on back order but I got my back rims the other day. I was starting to wonder if they was going to send 'em

Looks good!!! Can't wait to see it on the bird.

I have two tires 235 55 18 there goodyear good tread. 75 bucks to u

Sorry 235 45 18

hotrodaaron77 wrote:Sorry 235 45 18

Not wide enough and a little too short for what I want.
I'm looking at a set of 255/45's right now. 27" tall and a 10" footprint. Just hard to spend the money right now.

How far u plan on lowering it. Mine has 245 45 18 on the back when I took it down three inches the lip was sitting on the tire I didn't want to roll my lip that's why I got the two inch. I think it sits pretty good now. I know it sure handles better round turns

I did a ton of reading on some of the Pro Touring forums and a lot of measuring on the offset of the rim to get it to fit. With a little hammer work on the inner fenderwell where the seat belt bracket bulges it out I could squeeze a 12" overall width tire under the back. That's with the car sitting low. My shocks will have to be relocated but that doesn't bother me. I have been wanting to do that for years. The mounting point on the top in the back is a factory screw up. I had to rework the passenger side years ago and when I had the 4 speed and slicks on it I messed it up again. So the shocks will be put inboard like I always wanted too. I'm not going as wide as I could on the tires but I want to be able to shove some wide stuff under it later on so I may even end up doing a mini tub.

Bit the bullet.