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Today we finished making the drivers side front frame rail. Cut two crush sleeves and welded them in. Last two pictures are with the front frame rails tacked in place.
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Picture one is some of the tig welding on front frame. The last two pictures show the rear inside corner tacked in and some plasma cutting on the rear corvette section
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cool so far! frame is interesting, but I can't wait for the body mods!
maybe this is what I should do with my 1990 corvette!:lol: |
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65sub, outstanding project and really love the frame work! Very creative...and a lotta skill there too. I am all in to tag along.
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Friday's work was just welding and grinding on the front of the frame. Here's three pictures of the finished welding |
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Fantastic looking work on the frame. Looking forward to following your build.
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Awesome work.
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First two pictures we put the front suspension back together Next, after some careful measuring we removed the rest of the corvette frame and left the rear suspension on the table. The last shot is the first two pieces of the rear frame section |
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Man o man this is one awsome build you got going on here! Gonna be following this! Just out of curiosity why you using a Corvette for suspension?
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Yesterdays progress was just welding some 2X4 frame curves. Today I decided my daily driver needed some work so we changed the head lights to LED then we used "GMC Sub4X4" idea for LED taillights http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=623681. Makes quite a difference. |
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Nice! Where did you get the headlights?
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Frame and burb are looking good! :chevy:
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The headlights came from the local truck and tractor parts supplier. I haven't decided if I like the look of them yet. They stick out about 1/2 inch. |
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Here's Friday's work. One rear frame rail welded and ground and one just tacked together.
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Yesterday's snow storm kinda slowed things down today but we did get one rear frame rail mocked into position.
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We got a bunch done in last couple of days. First we welded on the other rear frame rail. Second we made some boxing plates for the rear corners. Next we put in two angle braces for the rear frame rails.
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Then today we got some 1/4 x 3 flat bar drilled thee mounting holes. We bent the ends in the metal bender. The last picture is the bracket tacked in place
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Friday we finished the welding and then used the cherry picker to lift the rear suspension into place |
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Looks good
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We made a little progress the last couple of days. First we made some brackets for the batwing crossmember and got them welded on. We aren't finished with them yet. Then we cut out one of the shockwave brackets.
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Very nice brackets. Did you use a plasma cutter?
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We made a spacer for between the lower shock mount and the shockwave bracket. The we made upper and lower brackets for the shockwave |
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Beautiful work, I will be following this one.
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Here's my picture for today. Hot rodding in the Great White North |
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I just found your build thread. Very interesting for sure.
My in-laws owned some property in Dresden about 25 years ago and they planned to build out there. All I remember is that Dresden seemed like the middle of nowhere (no disrespect intended). Are both your Burbs Canadian in origin? Greg. |
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Awesome build so far!!
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Greetings from Cambridge, I am in awe as much as I am perplexed at what you are doing. Really looking forward to seeing this one progress!
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Another job of someone knocking it out of the park, some talent being displayed here.
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We had to make a small notch for the driveshaft. Next we got the upper and lower shockwave mounts for the rear tacked in place. Then we got started making bump stop brackets. |
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Nice work! You move fast!
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i need a set of replacement burban frame horns welded on, you should cross and help me out??? i'll have some timmies(tim hortons) wait'n for ya...
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Today we got a bit of welding done. Then finished the bumpstop brackets and tacked them in place. Also started the rear frame turn down |
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Well Friday went well and we finished the rear frame turn downs. Today however did not go as well. First the air compressor blew a head gasket then my mig welder screwed up. The wire keeps getting jammed inside the nozzle. We did manage to tack the reenforcing plates over the joints
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Nice! I had a rough shop day Saturday with the air compressor going down and the heat went out too.
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We got the compressor rebuilt but the mig welder is still down. So today we decided to flip the frame over to weld the bottom. Used the engine hoist to remove the front and rear suspension. Then picked the frame up and flipped it over |
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