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Looking awesome so far!

It's not that bad! I honestly think it's the headlights and front turn signals that make it look bad. If that front section was closer to stock, it would look pretty good. The fenders are nicely flared, etc.

Damn! That green one is CLEAN!

My way around that problem was to use the MSA fiberglass front air dam, with a "simulated" bumper. Never got pulled over by the cops for it...

Well, I really liked the Primadonna Z... And the BlueOvalZ is another favorite:

When I had my z cars, I drove them as my DD every day for about 6 years. If your AC works, and your heat works, they are not bad daily drivers. I would take yearly trips to/from school of about 1000 miles. I had several fairly decent accidents, and came through them ok. I ended up finding the clutch effort pretty annoying when I moved to LA and dealing with traffic. But in a semi-rural environment, a Z is a great DD. I will chime in about the exhaust fumes. Me and a bunch of my friends all had Zs, and we all had problems with the fumes. Some more than others, depending on the tune of the car, how well their tail-lights were sealed, etc. But after some testing, and observations, we also came to the conclusion that there was a low-pressure area at the back of the car. A bubble of swirling turbulence, that kept the exhaust stuck to the back of the car. So there isn't a ton you can do about it, except seal everything the best you can, and maybe try that experiment of angling your tailpipe out to the side of the car somehow...

Holy crap! You have to be kidding me! It's an awesome car, but crazy price...

I have one on my Dodge Magnum, so I can give some insight. The shaker intake is actually pretty easy to adapt to fit several types of engines. If you have a v8 conversion on your Z, then you just have to cut holes for your carbs and you are ready to go. If you have a stock engine, it would still work if you are handy with fiberglass. Check out this pic : The small box on the front side is where the stock air cleaner resides. So the tube coming from the back of the shaker simply supplies the stock airbox with cold, fresh air... Then it just goes into the stock intake. So something like that could be fabbed up for a z, if you were good at fabrication....

Yeah, I am one of the crossover people also. I had a bunch of Z's, and also had a 928. So I am very interested in both projects! A bunch of people from the 928 forum are following this thread with interest...

Yeah, they weren't too harsh on it. Seems like most of them think it looks really nice. Only one guy who was probably unaware of how power-to-weight ratio works...

http://lxforums.com/board/showthread.php?t=188071

I generally got really good at doing pop-rivets. With pop-rivets you get a solid mechanical connection between the fiberglass part and the steel body. As opposed to bonding glue, which could become detached over time, and your part could come loose. The challenge is blending the pop-rivets after installation. I found that if you get a drill bit as large as the top of the rivet, and just lightly grind around the smaller pilot hole, you will create a counter-sink hole that the rivet will sink into. Or use a dremel with a round grinding tip. Of course this depends upon the part being thick enough to do this. Once the rivet is in there and expanded, then fill the hole with body filler, and grind it down smooth. If you use enough rivets, they will help pull the fiberglass part in line with the steel body, and hopefully you won't have to do as much filling of gaps, or blending of the edges...

That looks awesome! I cross-posted it to one of the Charger forums...

Hmmmm... tempting. I think if I build one again, it will be as an all-out race car. Not for the street.