Pics from SEMA thrash this pastweek

I built a dash for a 2nd gen Firebird going to SEMA to be displayed in the PYPES exhaust booth. The car has a lot of sponsors so the dash was built using products from those companies.

The dash was custom made using Anvil carbon fiber. The panel features Autometer Cobalt gauges, a Vintage Air controller, NOS arming switch, Pypes electronic exhaust cutout switch, American Autowire headlight switch, LED turn signals, a delay wiper switch, Billet headlight / wiper switch knobs, and then topping everything off is a set of polished Twist Machine bezels. The Twist bezels and Anvil carbon fiber make it very difficult to photograph.

I arrived to install the dash up in GA on Monday evening and realized how much work needed to be done so they could load the car in a trailer and head to Vegas for the show. They needed help bad, so I stayed till Friday and worked on the car 13-15 hours a day. Even with my help they still had to work on the car today in the parking lot outside the show in Los Vegas just to make it look like a complete car! The following pics are from Tuesday morning till friday afternoon when we loaded it up. Pic of the dash at the end.

The hood pins from hoodpins.net were the first part donated and the last part installed before the car was loaded. Ty installs the final screw before the trip.

Random engine compartment pic

On the road in 5 minutes!

Very nice work! Glad to see they kept a traditional Pontiac engine in it.

The block is an iron Pontiac 400 block now up to 440 CI. Everything else is aftermarket. Interesting to note that although this looks like a megabuck build the owner has less invested in it than a minivan costs and he intends to continue driving it to work after the rest of it is finished and it appears on Powerblock.

Sweet car to do a SEMA-style build on. Looks killer.

Good to hear that it was done on a "normal" budget.

gamby wrote: Sweet car to do a SEMA-style build on. Looks killer. Good to hear that it was done on a "normal" budget.

Well it was only a normal budget from the car owners point of view. The shop owner put a lot into the car (time and out of pocket money) and a lot of the parts used were from sponsors who gave the parts at a serious discount or free.