How to build a SEMA car in 20 days: Batlground Diary

Ok, so we get the call that KONIG wants us to pimp one of our cars out and put it in their booth for SEMA.

Well we felt it would be cool to show you what we are going through to get the car done, especially since most of you wont be going. So this is a piece of SEMA coming to you so to speak.

Updates will be done weekly, we have till the 24th to get her done!

UPDATES ARE ALSO ON THE WEBSITE :
http://www.batlground.com/gall...m=181

2 weeks ago the car looked like this and drove:


TODAY 10-5-07:

Sanding primer sucks




Holes welded up, Enjay bay smoothed and tubbed



Inside stripped





Doors


Shop Dog eating his lunch

 

Ready for Paint





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Engine bay and interior got done last night/today. Battleship GREY i think is the color. Today we install the LEXAN windows are awaiting the body kit before it goes back for exterior paint.

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The NEW KONIG WHEELS


Dan has been doing the wiring harness for the last few days, i dont even know where to start.

Hes been cutting a bunch of wires out, almost 200, so the car will only run on what is absolutely neccesary and make the wire tuck that much easier. TO give you an idea of what a project it is:






Today we are fitting the body kit:



BIG THANKS TO PETER AKA INITIAL_EG FOR COMING BY AN LENDING A HAND!

Ill have more pics by the end of the day

TOdays progress

GOt most of the body kit done, the front end conversion was a PIA.




The Dash got dropped off Courtesy of B@D @PPLE thanks JUSTIN!



AN this is my body guard eating the biggest steak sandwhich ever


TODAYS PROGRESS

Polished the Intercooler and random Aluminum pieces

 

Wrapped the Fire Wall



Test fitted and installed the Suede Wrapped Dash




Body Kit Primed and Ready for Install



Paint booth waiting on the car


And last but not least, our Lead Tech, Sub-Zero

 

LAST NIGHTs PROGRESS

Taping of the car for Paint








Removing the exhaust ,last part before paint

 

10-18-07 ARRIVES AT PAINT

 

ooohhh nice. I like the team effort on the masking job

 

Subscribing to see what this beast ends up looking like!

 

Cool write up, thanks for posting and look forward to additional updates!

 

Awesome build "subscribed" :ddirty:

 

I saw them working on this car yesterday. Talk about a project. They should have a reality show around this build. I saw the car sitting all masked off in the morning, by the time I left last night the entire car had been primed and they were installing the engine. Sweet...

 

Subtitle this thread

"How to: Work horse to show horse"
"How to: Performance shop to Body shop"

 

Nice project! :tasty:

 

nice job..too bad the sema cars pushed back my diff install til the 5th..haha

 

LOL sorry about that

 

dont worry about..it gave me motivation to fix my 97 grand am..haha

 

Will you guys be at the Konig booth at Sema? Or somewhere else.. I'll have to check it out in person!!

 

We will be all over, but prob hanging out around the Konig booth most of the time

10-19-07

Got the car back from Primer and installed the motor late last night after cleaning it.





Switching over all the lines to AN and we should have the car cranked, wet sanded and the body parts put back in in time to have it sprayed Monday

 

http://batlground.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=181

 

This car will decimate all with the right tools and about 15 grand in parts overnighted from japan

haha

very nice

 

Props to Superstar Customs for the valve cover

 

Ohh man, nice....Bucky really stepped it up

 

nice way to stick to the theme....YES

 

WOW. The Valve-Cover is freaking AWESOME!

Siegel

 

looks good, nice and clean! when are you going to fire it up?

 

Great write up and she looks sweet!!! 36 hours left!!!

 

That is fantastic airbrushing on that valve cover.

 

I think we are going to try to fire it up tonight...depending on how paint goes today.

 

Are you guys painting it?

 

No, our next door neighbor is, Jeff's Automotive Restorations 770-437-1313. He's kind of a redneck, but does amazing work.

~Tracy

 

That statement is worth quoting! LMAO!

 

It's true. He has a 3 legged dog, a 15 foot snake, a 6 toed dog, a pig, 6 other cats who were born from a blind cat, a snapper turtle and a cockatiel over there. He also has a deer head in the freezer.

 

Jeff is awesome though and a super nice guy to boot.

 

Lol!!:rofl::rofl: OMG!

 

it should be getting sprayed as i post...left at 10...fingers crossed

 

so the question is, are you going to do the OTHER drift car with the same theme?

 

nope it will be a different color with a different theme (but that's tracy's to disclose)

 

Mine will be different. Right now, we have decided on blue with big flake for the color. depending on sponsorship contracts, I may change it to something I like better....like PINK! I have some little japanese characters picked out for it as a theme. I want it to have the bullets and stuff (symbolizing Batlground), it will just have more girly details added to it.

We realized that people who see us on TV don't always notice that there are 2 cars and not one. We are getting 1/2 the exposure for our 2 car team because people only "see" one. It has a big impact in person when you see 2 of them. Everyone is always impressed with them as twins at the events....just for print and TV it sucks. Plus, I want to show my own personality with my car. I got in big trouble for the "unauthorized" (according to Dan's exact words ) shocker sticker on my wing. We fought for a long time over that one. This time he said i can do whatever I want as long as it makes my sponsors happy I wish I could put unicorns on it, but a guy already has one on his car.....*stomps feet*

 

haha, unicorns kick ass

 

I used to collect glass ones when I was younger. Now I just have a tattoo instead. My favorite movie is The Last Unicorn.

 

Nice post Mike

 

10-22-07 FIRST COAT OF PAINT at 1am











This kinda sums up how we all feel at the moment. Poor Dan watching paint dry

 

nice, need to slap some numbers on the side and a flag on the roof
http://www.cglfc.com/santi_general_lee.jpg

--
Brian

 

i imagine it'll look different in person.

 

thats just the first coat, i left when they were starting the second coat, and then you have to do clear so its much darker now.

 

mmmmmmm tasty....now for vinyl!!!

i'm sure dan is thrilled with the way it turned out despite the worries.

 

can't wait to see it in person. are you going to put a big wing on it?

 

Orange. Sweet...
throwin some metal flake on that thing to give it some bling?

 

10-23-2007
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