Glock and HuggerCST's official "Project 68" build thread

[bad6772]

Originally Posted by glock35ipsc

Hmmm, yeah, I think I like the new look better that what I had going on before!

i think it looks awsome, i liked it before but i like it alot better now. great job.. im defanitly doing somthing like this to the 72 .i love the smooth dash great job

[glock35ipsc]

Originally Posted by bad6772

i think it looks awsome, i liked it before but i like it alot better now. great job.. im defanitly doing somthing like this to the 72 .i love the smooth dash great job

Thanks man!!!!

Frizz - That sounds cool..... until I'm driving at night around a corner and it starts to rain. My luck would be I go to clap for the wipers, and the headlights shut off!!

[ChevyDude]

Bob's been busy!!! Looking good though Bob....a very much old school clean look!

[glock35ipsc]

Thanks Alex! Still scratching my head on the glove box door, I think I can come up with something totally off the wall yet....

Didn't get any work done to the truck, but spend one and a half MUCH needed days cleaning up the shop, getting a bunch of parts that don't need to be in the shop out to the shed. Now I can get the chassis out of the shop and roll it into the other shop. Then I will have a ton of room to do the final prep work so I can lay on some primer!

BTW, all those parts I mentioned?? Look in the for sale forum, I have a bunch of stuff there to get rid of!

[glock35ipsc]

Woo-hoo! Just won this on eBay, $15!!!!



And I have one of these to put on it somehow:



Or maybe this one, the ends are shaped more like the door:

[Palf70Step]

I think the Corvair door will look real good with your setup! I personally like the trim with the bowtie better as a replacement for the Monza.

[glock35ipsc]

Thanks Bill! I really like the one with the bowtie too, in fact I already have one. But I'm keeping the other one in mind since the angle on the ends fit the angle on the doors better. I will just have to see what the one I have looks like when the door gets here.

[glock35ipsc]

Whew, I got a lot done tonight!!!








, well OK, not really. I got two holes drilled! When I clean out the shop this weekend, I found the box that has my Rockford Fosgate tweeters, mids, and crossovers in it. I had been planning on installing the tweeters in the dash, but since I found them, and I was just hanging out in the shop messing with the TV, I thought I would go ahead and mark & drill the holes for them. Made a template to fit the top of the dash, the marked both sides, then drilled two 1-1/2" holes. They will sit flush on the dash. The top of the dash will be covered with tweed between the glass and the dash pad, so I think they will look good sitting up there.

And I threw in two gratuitous shots of the dash with the pad sitting on there.

[blaznhot_23]

hey glock nice work. Oh by the way are you planning to put you mids close to your tweeters??? The reason why i say is that usually tweeters and mids are supposed to be fairly close within each otherwise you will have a system that sounds like its all high or barely any highs if your mids are closer. We did something similar to what you're doing and when we were done we turned up the system and because the tweets were closer to us than the mids (we mounted those in a custom fiberglass enclosure down by your feet) the sound was definitely out of balance. We heard too much high frequencies rather than a even sound.

[glock35ipsc]

I got these as a set. Two mids and 4 tweeters. In my old truck (2003 Chevy) it had the OEM mids & tweets in the door, and tweets on the A pillars. I replaced the OEM ones with this Fosgate set. I am going to set this up very similar to what the 2003 was. Except I didn't want the upper tweets on the pillar, so I put them in the dash. The other tweets and mids will be in the doors, but as high up as I can get them, and angled slightly up and back to resemble, as closely as possible, the OEM placement of the 2003 Chev door speakers.

They come with the tweets as a part of the speaker, but also have several different "cups" that allow you to install them in something, or surface mounted at different angles. I separated the tweets from the speakers and mounted them by themselves when I had them in the 2003.

[blaznhot_23]

I had a set up similar to that in my 04 tahoe but i made the factory door panel custom by heavily modifying it. I had a mid driver and tweeter set up molded into the panels with fiberglass then painted to match the truck and then custom fiberglass kick panels with a mid range and tweeter set up. it sounded like the stock bose system i had in there prior but much much more refined. highs and mids were clearly distinguished plus i ditched the stock sub in the console for a bigger one plus what i added in the rear.

[glock35ipsc]

Cool! UPS came today with the Corvair glove box door. It is in real nice shape! So, of course, the first thing I did was to take it apart!

I actually consists of 4 parts: the outer chrome ring, the aluminum front piece just underneath the trim ring, and steel piece behind that, then the stamped steel piece that makes up the back side. I think the only thing I will use will be the trim ring (top piece in 2nd pic). I believe I will use the rear stamped piece as a pattern, and cut one piece of 16 gauge to match that will act as the front and back. There is actually a groove that runs along the backside of the trim ring that will allow me to screw on the hinge to the new piece I cut out. Make sense? LOL......

After debating on how to finish the piece I will cut and use, I think it would look cool if it was body color, with the chrome trim ring around it, and one of the two OEM glove box trim pieces I posted above stuck on it. I will use the trucks OEM push button latch, as I have a brand new one.

I think I will like this better than my slimmed down OEM door! I guess I have some new wall art!

[glock35ipsc]

Oh, I'm also debating on whether to use the door shape as shown, or turn it upside-down (longer edge at the top, instead of at the bottom). Keep in mind, there is no longer anything on the dash resembles the original shape of the gauge bezel or the glove box door other than the very ends of the dash.

[ColoradoK5]

I think if you used it up-side down it would look better jmho. and go with the body color that atomic orange will look nice against each other!

[glock35ipsc]

Yeah, I'm thinking upside down too. And definitely body color in the middle!

[glock35ipsc]

OK, got it torn apart and cut a new piece for the center. Here are a few different shots of it. First is the door upside down (from it OEM position) with the 67-68 glove box emblem on it. Second is the door without the emblem, and third is the door right side up as it would be in the Corvair.

Myself, I like it upside down without the emblem (#2), and the flat piece painted body color. I could either ditch the emblem all together, or put is on the dash directly under the door, or above it.......

[ChevyDude]

Originally Posted by glock35ipsc

Myself, I like it upside down without the emblem (#2), and the flat piece painted body color. I could either ditch the emblem all together, or put is on the dash directly under the door, or above it.......

I'm with you...this will look great!

[72armyswbtruck]

I like the first one, just flipped with the decal

[glock35ipsc]

This might actually work! I was a little bummed last night after cutting and fitting the new center piece, but not able to find a good way to attach it. Originally, there were little studs sticking up that were mashed down to "trap" the other plates. Of course, those had to be ground off to the the original plates off.

I ground the little studs off and drilled holes in the new plate, but I couldn't find any countersunk screws small enough in my shop that would work. Finally, when I was ready to come in, I remembered I needed to pull the cover off my shop calculator to see what battery it needed. When I got my little bitty screwdriver set out of my toolbox, underneath it was a bag of ..... little tiny screws!

They worked perfectly too! Now, I need to decide whether to use this one, or cut the same exact shape out of billet aluminum. The reason I bought this one in the first place was to use the shape as a template for cutting an aluminum one. But this one is kinda growing on me. I think I might go ahead and cut an aluminum one and see which one I like better. I can say this though, the aluminum one will be MUCH easier to attach the hinge to.

[ChevyDude]

I like that Bob!!! I think will match up real nice to gauges you've chosen!!!

Is she gonna step out of that flat yellow coat and slip into something more comfortable like along the lines of an Atomic overcoat....soon???

Alex

[glock35ipsc]

Well, this weekend ensured that it will happen sooner! I finally got the bottom piece of the dash cut out and tacked in place. Since I cut the entire center out, I had a gap along the bottom side of the dash. I decided that instead of just cutting a piece to fill in the gap, I would weld a piece all the way across. This also helped to fix the problem off the bottom piece being so beat up that it waved back at you!

Also got both front fenders completely sanded inside and out, the spot welds on the ends and one shipping ding in the tailgate fixed, and started sanding on the drivers door. Need to pull the drivers door and finish sanding it, finish sanding the hood, and the inside of the bed. Then I can break out the primer!

As far as the cab goes, I just need to finishing placing some more tacks welds on the dash, seam seal the rest, and it's ready to prime also. Oh, and most important, cut out glove box!!!!

[ChevyDude]

Very Nice!!! Gonna look great in that stuff called "Paint"!!!

[glock35ipsc]

Oh yes, I completely agree!

[glock35ipsc]

I got the "new" hood in the shop today. It's off of my 68 K10 parts truck, and other than one little kink on the front under the last "E", it is in perfect shape!

Hint, hint....... I have a very nice 68 K10 LWB for sale, the bed is about 98%. The front clip, minus hood is also beautiful. The cab had some work done on it already when I bought it, but needs a little touch up. I also have a 72 rolling chassis that goes with it. Front disc brakes and a Rockwell transfer case! I'll be posting up some WIW pics tomorrow to get an idea of what it's worth.

[glock35ipsc]

The UPS truck delivered a 5/16" x 12" x 18" piece of 6061 aluminum plate today, that gives me enough to screw up once! As I said earlier, I made a template from the Corvair door, but narrowed it by 2". I got the basic shape cut out a little bit ago, and got the corners smoothed out on the belt sander. Now I need to put it in the mill and mill the top and bottom perfectly flat, then blend the corners into the flats again. Then I need to cut the hole for the latch button. I'll be using an OEM button.

Man, cutting and sanding aluminum makes a mess! My son laughed at me when he saw me cutting it..... welders hat, goggles, respirator mask, ear muffs, and a long sleeve jacket. But I can safely say I did not inhale any aluminum dust, and there is none in my eyes ears hair, or my arm pits!

I will post up some pics later tonight, it's dinner time!