Purple People Eater LP670 SV Build!!!

[autopro]

It's very inspirational to get your body mounted, it drives you to keep workng on it. 

[Purple LP670 SV]

Thanks for the offer, but after moving a mill by myself no matter how good of a trade I'd have to decline, simply to not have to move it again lol!

I had some caliper brackets made up at work but I'm almost positive I'll be altering them or the spindle in some way. I still need to get a phase converter for that mill so it will be a little while till I get to that!

In the mean time I'm sick of not seeing progress aesthetically, so I'm gonna try and get some of my body panels rough mounted so I can at least take them off and put them back with some repeatability! I've been upset with myself for using a Fiero and acquiring a Watson body as opposed to using the NAERC plans! So I printed them off and started comparing what I had to what they had, I decided the two best things I could take from the NAERC plans were the front bumper support and the side ladders. Here is the start of my rendition of a Fiero/NAERC hybrid thingy!  this is just the start of it, just tacked, no gussets, and whatever else, but I'm liking it so far and it's really starting to line up like it should!

[01Lambiero]

Congrats, Purple on the new mill.  I'll trade you even up for my Enco .  I installed the Held front suspension on my Diablo replica because of the need to be able to lower the body with the adjustable coil overs.  Hope that you do not have the same need.  Also, when you grind down the lugs on the spindle to mount your caliper adapter plate, the lugs need to be 90 degrees to the spindle centerline otherwise the caliper will be out of alignment with the rotor.  I am going to have to disassemble my front spindles and mill my lugs flat.  I didn't realize this until I assembled the brakes.   See the problem in the pic.  Jim

[Purple LP670 SV]

Was in Dallas a few weeks ago, was fortunate enough to sneak out of a meeting and  hang out with my good buddy Tex for a brief while! Can't say enough good things about that guy and his hospitality! Also got to experience something I never thought I'd get to see in person, my dream car, an LP670 in all it's glory! All I can say is WOW!!! And the guy on the floor was more then cool with me taking pics and drooling over it for close to an hour! I told him all about my build and he was more than intrigued, asking me questions the whole time! Enjoy, I know I did!!! 

[Robert]

No car progress, but got a new toy to hopefully help remedy that! 

Sweet! I need one of those!

[Purple LP670 SV]

No car progress, but got a new toy to hopefully help remedy that! 

[Purple LP670 SV]

Thanks Auto! I may but it's pretty straight forward and I am definitely no pro at it! I suppose if I did I could get a few chuckles out of those who know better then I do!!!  Just got back from the "Yard 'O Junk" and got me some calipers so I can get my brackets made for them! I'm using Grand Prix fronts for the front and Grand Am fronts on the rear! Seemed the best fit without having to buy the actual Corvette calipers!

[autopro]

Beautiful work my friend!  You need to do a little step by step on the powder coating process.

[Purple LP670 SV]

Got it all back together! Finally resting on all 4's! Starting to get excited! 

[Purple LP670 SV]

Seems silly that I would powder coat stainless but I didn't want these pieces to show, just wanted it to all look clean! This is the first time trying powder coating and even though they look okay I did have an issue! I was trying to do a silver vein with purple candy on top, it turned out mostly black with a purple shine to it! Still looks better then it did just not what I was after. Guessing l didn't let the vein cure enough before shooting the candy!

[Purple LP670 SV]

Thanks guys! Starting to regain some ambition, been wanting to see this on all 4 wheels for awhile so I'm back on the front suspension!

[Robert]

Made some flanges so it's 3 pieces from the header to the inlets! A real pain but it should give me some much needed back pressure I just hope it doesn't sound to week with all the angles!!! 

Very nice job!

[Robert]

Thanks Robert! Got one from China in less then 6 days! All cables, Candi module, And GM English card to boot!!! 300 bones brand new! fired right up and was able to go through all the pages! True test will be doing the Case learn on my car but I have no doubt it's fully capable! Great buy and am so excited to use it!!! 

Glad you like it!

[SchulzeA]

Good job brother! Looks professional because it is!

[Purple LP670 SV]

Made some flanges so it's 3 pieces from the header to the inlets! A real pain but it should give me some much needed back pressure I just hope it doesn't sound to week with all the angles!!!