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[Torchie]

Good progress.[cl [cl
Torchie

 

[Sunnybeach]

Good work, keep it up!

 

[christcrusader13]

Wow.. this is turning out sweet!

 

[NickFish]

Frame and running gear

I cleared out enough room in the garage to get the car mocked up. Still waiting on some parts to make more progress. The kid finished stripping the body and learned how to use a torque wrench installing some valve covers. Got to love cheap labor.

 

[NickFish]

Paint stripper is nasty stuff

 

[NickFish]

Working on motors in Hawaiian shirts

 

[NickFish]

windshield works

got back on this thing after a few weeks off. got the windshield frame cut down and hinges back on the car. they had been cut off when I chopped the top. It took a little time but I wanted the window to open like it did before.

 

[NickFish]

air bag mounts and four link

keeped on the ball and got my air bag mounts made and on the car. I made a bridge for the four link set up to mount on the rear end, and got the rest of the mounts on the frame. to my surprise it goes up and down with out binding or getting out of wack. This was a my first attempted at a triangulated four link . Its been 95* in san diego the last few days so I've been getting up early and wrapping it up by noon. garage is a sweat box by then. Oh yeah as you can see in one of the picks I used the muffler clamps to hold the brackets on before tacking them. I saw that trick on RRR. wish I could remember who posted it because I'd like to thank them.

 

[NickFish]

engine is in

finally got some parts i was waiting on and was able to get back on this thing. got the motor and tunas in and the front end started to. still waiting on steering arms.

 

[NickFish]

fish plates

got these made to

 

[Torchie]

Great progress. Looks good.[cl [cl [P [P
Torchie

 

[NickFish]

thank you. i got stalled out for awhile waiting for my front axle and motor mounts. I'm going to get it out of the garage in the next few days and try to put the body on to see how it all ends up. i felt like it was a guessing game on the motor position with out the body so i just tacked up the mounts in case i have to move it

 

[earthman]

Good to see a post about this again. Thanks for the update.

 

[smallfoot]

Nice work there....[cl

 

[bruno]

finally got some parts i was waiting on and was able to get back on this thing. got the motor and tunas in and the front end started to. still waiting on steering arms.

I have looked closely at all of the photos and for the life of me I can't find the tunas

 

[NickFish]

tunas?

haha yeah bruno i didn't catch that one, it was supposed to be trans but that dang auto correct got me

 

[AZRodDave]

I have looked closely at all of the photos and for the life of me I can't find the tunas

Somethin' fishy going on there.

 

[IAM-LDS-2]

thank you. i got stalled out for awhile waiting for my front axle and motor mounts. I'm going to get it out of the garage in the next few days and try to put the body on to see how it all ends up. i felt like it was a guessing game on the motor position with out the body so i just tacked up the mounts in case i have to move it

During a build we like to roll them out of the garage often and give em what we call the 50ft look over . It 's hard to get the overall perspective looking at it up close in the garage .

 

[NickFish]

tires

got my tires mounted on the rims yesterday. spent more than i wanted to on the cheater slicks but i think its going to look good in the end. put them up against the body yesterday to get a idea of how there going to look

 

[soltz]

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So Nice