Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:55 am
What an absolutely beautiful color! Im happy for you
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Mothra SR20DE Swap in Florida
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Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:15 am
Beautiful Color! Look forward to seeing it as a complete car.
Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 3:46 pm
I cannot believe how bad the body was before you started. Makes my body work I need to do on my 67 look easy. Beautiful color and nice tasteful mods. That is going to be a gorgeous ride when you are at it completion.
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Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:30 pm
Congrats on crossing the finish line on you resto. I know there is more to do, but this is a great milestone.
I thought when I looked at your very first post ( though there was quite a bit of work to even get that far) that the car could disintegrate on the rotisserie-Yikes! So to bring the car back from the dead is quite impressive. You should have that pic on your windshield for every car show you go to!
Yes you underestimated on time needed to fix, but if you had known would you have proceeded?
In any case you join a very elite club- ground up resto that you substantially participated in. Awesome!
It makes whining about anything I have to fix nearly impossible though
LOL
And thanks for documenting so well. That is both inspiring and terrifying for owners
Linda
I thought when I looked at your very first post ( though there was quite a bit of work to even get that far) that the car could disintegrate on the rotisserie-Yikes! So to bring the car back from the dead is quite impressive. You should have that pic on your windshield for every car show you go to!
Yes you underestimated on time needed to fix, but if you had known would you have proceeded?
In any case you join a very elite club- ground up resto that you substantially participated in. Awesome!
It makes whining about anything I have to fix nearly impossible though
LOLAnd thanks for documenting so well. That is both inspiring and terrifying for owners
Linda
Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 7:03 am
Thanks Linda but I can do better than a pic on the windshield... The guys at the shop made a removable tv screen for me. Not sure how I like it but for free it's great! For car shows its awesome but not something I want everyday driving. Cracks me up every time I see it! They put a lot of work into this attachment. It really is a fabulous work of wood and fiberglass! It will play from my center console dvd player. I'm in the process of making a movie to play on it when on display, The Making of Mothra!Linda wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:30 pm Congrats on crossing the finish line on you resto. I know there is more to do, but this is a great milestone.
I thought when I looked at your very first post ( though there was quite a bit of work to even get that far) that the car could disintegrate on the rotisserie-Yikes! So to bring the car back from the dead is quite impressive. You should have that pic on your windshield for every car show you go to!
Yes you underestimated on time needed to fix, but if you had known would you have proceeded?
In any case you join a very elite club- ground up resto that you substantially participated in. Awesome!
It makes whining about anything I have to fix nearly impossible though
And thanks for documenting so well. That is both inspiring and terrifying for owners
Linda
Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 1:06 pm
Just saw the video on Facebook!! It’s frackin beautiful!!
Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:55 pm
One more day of work on Mothra, tomorrow the hard top gets primer and maybe paint to match the wheels. Very emotional day seeing the major body parts together. By the way, after sanding for the last week, I have no finger prints anymore
Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:16 pm
It really does look fantastic.
Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 12:56 pm
I can hardly wait to see how it looks with all the contrasting parts on her!
Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:47 am
Ready for paint!
Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 8:36 pm
Spent the first day in the garage removing the broken twisted off screws in the headlight frame on the body. I really hope this is not a sign. I have known about these for a long time and never took care of them. the good news is only one left. If I didn't need to worry about the new paint this would be done. ugha
Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:35 am
Picking up my top and roll bar today! I'll be street legal once I get my harness mounted to the roll bar so pretty excited. I also hired a real mechanic/electrician to go thru my electrical mess, expensive but well worth every penny. I still have plenty to do but yesterday was a very good day for Mothra!
Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 8:09 am
I am now driving this amazing car! I haven't posted anything for awhile but Mothra is amazing! Thank you to all of the people on this site that got me through the bumps in the road! 311.org is the best!
Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 8:15 am
I will add more photos and details later but for now I need to go for a drive 
Re: SR20DE Swap in Florida
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 8:35 am
I haven't seen you driving around Jacksonville yet. What gives?