made it to the shop last night, made a beginning of a trunk floor, nothing to ride home about lol. also decided to see how my rear bumper is going to fit. so I measured a few things, cut the "step" part of the escalade rear bumper off the top, cut off the mounting points and all off the original frame, then welded those to the escalade bumper. went to test fit the buick bumper and the tow hitch was in the way on the bottom not letting me bolt it up just yet. trimmed the bottom of the bumper to clear the tow hitch and was able to get the bumper in place, haven't bolted it up for good yet, just checking everything. I may need to relocate the tow plug which I have an idea for. so far so good. I painted all my body mounts, and I decided I'm just going to patch the interior floor once I get it back to the house. I also welded up the flanges for the remainder of the exhaust that would be a pain to get to once the body was on so now I finish the rest of that at home too (or go turbo, not sure yet lol). I may end up redoing the whole exhaust later because I want to use the exhaust cut outs in the rear bumper after seeing where they ended up it looks doable. so my next thing really is hopefully saturday my friend is bringing me some oem wheels/tires from a Silverado to bolt up so he can have his 22's back, then I may have to trim for clearance on those, then I can load it up and take it home and keep going.
