V8 HHR Build
#901
The second photo with the green rectangles shows the areas I used from the "donor" grill. These were simply cut with a band saw and squared up with 20" disc sander. The piece that filled the upper hole in the grille has a forward facing angle so I cut a vertical slot in the back side, used a heat gun to curve it and cemented it in place.
Minor imperfections were filled with bondo, filed flat and painted to match. The last photo shows the finished grill. Like I said in the beginning, this little mod has been waaaaay more work than anyone would imagine.
Last edited by lasater; 10-08-2016 at 10:56 PM.
#903
Another Tiny Update
Just finished the shifter electrical. The park/neutral safety switches and the back up light switches took forever to get adjusted correctly. The p/n safety switch ties into the Ron Francis iStart ignition. Another system wired into the B&M Pro Ratchet shifter is the line lock push button on the shifter handle. The shifter has a black aluminum box like cover that hides the mechanism. The challenge is that you can't get the cover on over the shifter lever if the line lock button is installed and you can't put the line lock button on without the aluminum box cover.........that is a problem for tomorrow. As for me, I'm tired.
Here is a photo of the wired shifter.
Here is a photo of the wired shifter.
#906
Finished The Shifter.....Finally
After an entire weekend of adjusting, re-adjusting, tracing wires and re-routing wires, the shifter is done. It doesn't look like much but here it is.
#907
More mindless details
It's time to completely finish the rockers so I can cut the holes for the exhaust tips. As always final fitting is slow and painful. Here's where I am now.