Steve Chovan’s 70 BGT

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Well guys I may as well kick this off.   The car is home, warming up in its new stall.  I'm very excited to start this.   I've loved these things for a long time and getting the opportunity is awesome.  It seems to be quite solid.  We'll see when it's opened up, right.   Outside rockers, sill membrane, and 3 doglegs are what appear to be bad.  When we loaded it the cross members sure seemed to be really solid.  I do have a question about the inside rear fender.   Can that surface rust be cleaned out in there?  I think I can replace the lower outer wheel wells with homemade repair panels.   I really hate to cut out that rear fender to clean up the inner section.

Cut out the floors and  rockers, inner membranes also decided to make my own partial castle rails.   Ordered new sheet metal from the UK. Should be able to start putting in new metal this weekend.

3/1/21. Castle rail is in, I got a hair brain idea to try and stiffen the main frame channels.  May never know if it worked but it was open so why not.   My first rust patch is done and started templating fro floors.  

6/27/21.   The floors are in and I have been working on the passenger side. Sills, rear dogleg, front kick panel, and front repair panel for the wing.  
When I started on the sills they were about 3/8" too wide and 5/8" too long.  Cut those down and they fit great.   The rear dogleg fit pretty well.   I also did a rust repair behind the trumpet support and the support itself is new.  That was a fun job shaping new metal for the inner fender well.   Some compound curves there.

The front repair panel is short, man where does it end with crap panels?    Anyway it's .0685 off, really?  So I cut a strip of 18ga and welded that in.   I have to sand it down and put the wing back on to finish the weld on the patch.      












The half castle rail I made. 16ga

Templating for new floors.  One sheet of 18ga I'm pretty sure I can get all 3 floor panels cut out.  


My first patch panel.  I thought it came out nice.

The sill too wide.  Sliced off the welding flange to cut the whole panel down.  Hind sight I should have flattened out the flange and rebent it then trim the excess.   Next one.  

Sill and dogleg ended up coming out nice.   I tweeted the door seam so it flowed a little nicer.  This car had great door gaps so I'm really trying to keep that going.  


New pans with new bead roller.   That was fun.  Bent the flanges and did the beading.  

Rust cut out behind trumpet


New patch that went in.  Only 15hrs of work here using sand bag and dollies to form
The bump out.  Also ran a welding flange on the bead roller

The new support.  I put seam seal on it right away.  Idk why I don't like to back track.    

Working on the front repair.  Ended up short on the door seam so filled in a thin strip.  The whee
well came out great as did the fitting after I flattened out the bottom edge on the sill and re-bent  that too.  

New rear boot floor.   It had to be totally redone.  I wasn't really looking forward to it but turned out pretty easy.   I raised it up a couple inches to fit a larger tank underneath.  I think I can get 20-21 gal in.  That will be aluminum.  

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I know it's been a few years. The car is almost done. I was wondering if this would work to put the build page for Alice on here that I started on  FaceBook rather than photo dumping on here. Alice's entire build page
Just click on Photos for the uploaded photos. 

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All the windows are in except the drivers side. The front wing vent capping needs to be re-chromed so I can't finish it until that's done.

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A peek of what this is going to look like.

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some more interior

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The engine on this ended up being a 95 Ford 5.0 and stroked it to 331 with Brodix heads, Vintage Air frontrunner serpentine kit.
It has AC with a relocated heater box behind the center console.
The rear end is Moser 9" axles with big end bearings in an 8.8 case. 
Using QA1 coil-overs in the rear and 25% uprated armstongs in the front. 
New 3/4" front sway bar, nothing in the back until I drive it. I built my own exhaust from the headers back using Porter mufflers. I haven't figured out how to put a sound bite on here yet.
The rear axle took up so much room I ended up making my own fuel tank, 12gal is what I got in it.