So anyway. I want to start assembling the pedals, because the brake pedal is a question mark until the system is built and has fluid in it as at full stroke the pedal hits the floor so I might need to add to the front of the arm and take away from the back. Also the gas pedal doesn’t exist, i am getting one from one of the dead cadillacs in dead sled’s yard. Once the pedals are sorted i need to complete the column, which is complete to the firewall but unknown from firewall to steering wheel. Therefore, before bolting all this stuff in place, i had to paint the floor and inside firewall, which is what i did today. My lower back is jacked up again, not week in bed like last time but i’m still on light duty.
I do welds
Main hoop in
Sweet!
In a sign that I need to clean out my work van more often I found the $2010 Challenge issue in the center console today. Have to share this.
Since you brought it back up, i’m laid up again with back issues. Going to try and get something small done today to keep myself moving. Moving helps it, but i’m at a point where everything is heavy lifting or requires sitting on the concrete floor.
Got a whole $5.98 worth of new bolts to take questionable old reused bolts out of the suspension equation and got the shocks mounted after trimming the corners off the u bolt plates, and my back says no more plus it’s about 100 in the garage
Keep eating the elephant! Looks great!
Ancient picture. what would you do about that little guy right there? I don’t really want to paint the linkages because they’re all coated in whatever makes gold steel, but I had to make the drag link from 2 tubes so it’s got a weld and some dead coating. Definitely hitting it with the belt sander to smooth it out, but what to do about that effected area? Mask off and paint it, or suck it up and paint the whole deal? I would rather they stand out in gold against the green axle
In reply to Patrick :
Maybe just tape off a few inches at the weld and then paint it a harmonious contrasting color?
I agree with tvr but I say stripe the entire undercarriage. Racing stripes on the bottom of a car is something I've never seen before.
In reply to Patrick :
Mount a skull with watch battery powered red LED eyeballs over the seam.
Green stripe. Tie it together with the axle.
Opportunity missed.
Step one: don’t show the internet that you welded it already.
Step two: wrap it in tape with a note attached “remember to weld before challenge”
step 3: during tech just act surprised and add more tape.
barefootskater said:Opportunity missed.
Step one: don’t show the internet that you welded it already.
Step two: wrap it in tape with a note attached “remember to weld before challenge”
step 3: during tech just act surprised and add more tape.
Ok that’s funny. Green probably makes the most sense, i’ll see if there is any left. The front axle green was from garbage night garage chemical box score. I just got a ton more but most of it is gloss black trash dollar store cans, and a couple cans of beige rustoleum which would be perfect if i had a camry.
AngryCorvair said:In reply to Patrick :
Mount a skull with watch battery powered red LED eyeballs over the seam.
Isn’t this teetering on the intentionally E36 M3ty rat rod stuff Knurled eluded to earlier?
Patrick said:AngryCorvair said:In reply to Patrick :
Mount a skull with watch battery powered red LED eyeballs over the seam.
Isn’t this teetering on the intentionally E36 M3ty rat rod stuff Knurled eluded to earlier?
Minor confession: I didn’t see that post. If so, then disregard. Besides, barefoot nailed it.
In reply to AngryCorvair :
Carry on, enjoy your authentic dining experiences where you are currently located
In reply to Patrick :
Big bowl of noodle soup With beef and spring onion, plus 5 of these delicious hand-made meat dumplings, was 21 RMB. At the current exchange rate, that’s about $3.40, and I was full!
In reply to AngryCorvair :
You'll be hungry again in 20 minutes ....
barefootskater said:Opportunity missed.
Step one: don’t show the internet that you welded it already.
Step two: wrap it in tape with a note attached “remember to weld before challenge”
step 3: during tech just act surprised and add more tape.
Hilarious!
As someone who also has a jacked up back, I wish I had half the motivation. Car is coming along awesome.
Damn, I’m gonna get my ass handed to me this year.
Patrick said:
Was....is there a supercharger addressed elsewhere here to ultimately reside where that shiny carb now sits?
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