Just a quick update this week. I had hoped to get the chassis all cleaned up and painted, and the suspension installed this week, in preparation for getting the car painted next weekend. However, as I got going on that work I decided to make a minor change to the front fender mounting bracketry, so that ate up some time during the weekend. As I got going on getting the chassis cleaned up on Saturday morning I realized that I had forgotten some detail work that needed to be done, such as reinforcing the sheet metal around the hood hinge mounts and putting a metal patch on the firewall to closely fit the new Wilwood master cylinders. Plus there was still some finish welding to do around the large patch that I'd put in the firewall, some TIG welding to finish up on the front frame tubes, adding a reinforcement to the upper strut mounting plate, etc. I also had to remove the engine and transmission of access to all this stuff, which was no big deal, but took extra time.
It takes no time to write this down, but it took me most of the weekend to get it accomplished. At 6:00 PM tonight I was all ready to start scraping off the undercoating and starting to paint, but found that I was out of the DX-330 wax and grease removed that I needed to take off the undercoating with! So, after all that work this weekend I still didn't even get to put some black paint on the engine compartment.
Based on how long it took me to get all this stuff done this weekend, I think that it will probably be next weekend before the suspension is in the car and it is mobile enough to get pushed into the booth. Right now it looks doubtful that I'll paint the car on Father's day, probably more like the weekend after.
I'm still really concerned about how far behind schedule I am on the car, but I'm trying not to worry about it too much until I find out from the Hot Rod guys whether or not I can even run the car in the class I want this year. Power Tour is over now, so hopefully I will get an answer from them this week. I'll post another update next week, hopefully with some pictures of the car resting on the suspension and ready to go into the paint booth.