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Wonderful work!!! Thanks for sharing!

John has them, and thinks he might already have them scanned. I spoke to him yesterday and he said he'd look

Great progress!! I too am changing the size and shape of the back window and doors. Thanks for sharing!!

Aww, cool, thanks for the insight.. I've been seriously considering the Automirage..

Amazing pics Jeff!!! Thanks so much for sharing them! I have thought about building one of the BMW based kits.. Were those this kit? http://mirageautomotive.co.uk/

Thanks! The nose on yours looks more like an Alpha1 that someone cut the hood down on though. I'm going on the shape of the carious openings in the nose and the shape of the area around the parking lights, primarily. Looks like a great start!! Did you join the Facebook group too?

Can't wait to see your progress pics!

It's looking amazing!!!!! Thanks for sharing! Is it okay if I share these with the GTO replica fans on our Facebook group ?

Aww.. i missed that story.. and have a few of his books. Thanks for the heads up.

Welcome, Rockford! I have seen a few completed cars in Canada in the last few weeks.. I'll do some digging and see if I can find again too

YES!! Wonderful job!!! How did you modify the stock window frames?

Nope, and neither can most V8s people put in this chassis. 6400 rpm stock, well blueprinted maybe 7000, which is more than most overhead valve, non race prepped, single cam engines as it has overhead cams. I do want a Hartley type V8 for my black fiero .. that goes to 14k redline.. but the price still hurts my brain.

The 12 weighs less than a cast iron Small Block Chevy V8.. I think mine was about 325lbs.. an 12 cylinder has a distinct sound and smoothness.. The original GTOs had an all aluminum (2.5 liter) SOHC V12.. the BMW is 5-6 liter, SOHC and external dimensions and weight are about the same as the Ferrari engine Different strokes for different folks (pun intended)

Also, did you get ignition system figured out? I followed the discussion on one of the BMW forums and saw Fred with the V12 Vette was showing his setup with 12 individual coils. I run 6 dual plug coils and waste spark (fire coils on both the compression and exhaust stroke), which means any ignition computer that can fire 6 coils can manage it. And I batch fire injectors To fire 12 + injectors individually i would need to either get an EFI technologies ECU (almost $5k) or treat the engine as 2 six cylinders and run a computer for the left bank, and another for the right bank.. even with the EFI Tech ECU, you still have to use waste spark.. Short of a custom configured MoTeC M880, with 12 ignition outputs (for around $3k), waste spark is necessary unless you want to treat the engine like 2 six cylinders.

Welcome!! Isn't this the car that was listed with several Alphas on "Bring a trailer" in the Pacific northwest a couple months ago? Glad to see you're digging in on the car. Also I love the Montreal! I have a couple Urracos, which share the same distributor cap Your car is looking great! Please post more!

I drilled holes in the sheetmetal behind the front shock towers.. then reinforced it and added some 5" fans to help extract heat.. I feel like every little bit we can do helps

I second Tomohawk, those are great looking headlight rings! I made mine in a similar way and shaped mine out of aluminum. To look right, i also chose flat head screws like you chose.

I welded moly tubing into the chassis inside the rocker and behind the front fenders. Technically, if I have a flat on the side of the road, i could use the original jack, but I also welded air jacks into the car so I can jack mine with an air hose.

Every original GTO I have seen in person had the interior all exposed metal and painted either silver or black.. with simple blue or black seats. Of course there is the one with roll up windows and full interior, but I haven't seen it in person yet. I have carpet, sound deadener, and A/c because I don't like to arrive at a car show looking like i just ran a marathon.. lol.. I do want more period seats though.

Not many changes here on my stuff to show. The White GTO is still on the table - we did give up on using the 350Z front suspension and switched to C4 Corvette, but still a long way to go .. I've started making body parts for it though.. Before spring I want more appropriate seats in the red GTO.. The coilovers really made the stance look a lot better.. I'll try to share some detail shots this week. I made my Jack hole plugs from a chunk of aluminum with a file.. took a while, but i think the result was worth it

Great looking car, Lee.. It doesn't really seem to me to be from the old Alpha molds either - so much of the nose is different... The trunk doesn't even seem to be Tom's trunk kit.. though the rear might be his rear .. I see bits of several different cars.. perhaps it's something early from Tom (ScorpionZ) I'm honestly a little stumped.. I'm not really used to being stumped by any of the GTO replicas lol Both of ours started life as Alpha1 cars.. and were modified far beyond that.

TomoHawk wrote:This photo is of the Sir Stirling Moss car: Nice! I had never seen the interior of this one!! Thanks for sharing!! It's awesome to see this thread getting traffic again

sorry to hear he's having to sell This is the first i had heard of his car.. please send warm thoughts.

This is sound advice.. do with it what you will, but there is so much more work in successful execution of these things.

I promise, i didn't feel slighted at all, I think you're awesome, and your build inspired me long ago Thanks for your kind words! The person who got upset with me was the guy who made and sold the Scorpionz parts. I didn't have issues with him, I just felt the trunk kit could use some improvements, or, more correctly, I felt there were a few things someone using the trunk kit could do to get a better final result, and that metal was probably a better route for anyone with the skill to make it. I probably spent 2 weeks on my rings getting to the point I was happy with them.. i do sometimes get a little anal about some details.