66 Pro Street Build (Domeringer)

[ptc]

Gary, great build man! so much information too, thanks for all that you. Also glad to see your recommendation for Ron Fournier, read that book myself so many years ago and hes is a great talent to the fab industry.

Working on my roll cage right now too and very frustrated with the NHRA rule BS.... I decided to keep mine more street than strip by keeping my cab removable, but it will be roll cage safe. (whether or not the NHRA tech board believes so).

Anyway great job, keep it up!

[Gary V]

Originally Posted by azdude1964

update please SIR.

Not much to post... got a little side tracked with my brothers turbo fox body. Shortened and back braced his 9" rear... wish there was more time for fun stuff. Will go back to work on the truck Saturday and Sunday and post some updates Sunday night.

Originally Posted by ptc

Gary, great build man! so much information too, thanks for all that you. Also glad to see your recommendation for Ron Fournier, read that book myself so many years ago and hes is a great talent to the fab industry.

Working on my roll cage right now too and very frustrated with the NHRA rule BS.... I decided to keep mine more street than strip by keeping my cab removable, but it will be roll cage safe. (whether or not the NHRA tech board believes so).

Anyway great job, keep it up!

Thank you! Yea that NHRA rule stuff can be a pain in the butt. The faster you want to go the more so. I'm liking the Outlaw events run without the NHRA sanctioning more and more.

Hummm had a chance to read a post I put up early one morning... seems I got my tigs and migs mixed up... here's the corrected version.

Very good! I think you will enjoy the book. Ron Fornier has been around for a long time and does awesome work. A cold start can usually be attributed to technique, amperage and wire feed speed. Try turning your machine up and starting a little ahead of your stop position and coming back... you can weld hotter if your not traveling so far. It can be difficult to weld heavy structural steel with the low cost mig machines on the market today. They are more suited for bodywork than doing structural. The new small inverter mig machines have a low duty cycle (The number of minutes you can weld in 10 minutes expressed as a percentage, eg. 20% duty cycle = 2 minutes in 10 where the machine is holding the current you originally set) We have a 300 amp Lincoln mig running .041 wire at work... there is no cold start.

Not a big fan of mig welding unless I have a big machine at my disposal. Having been an arc welder for many years... in my worn out flash burned eyes the penetration you get with arc is far superior to mig. It does take some crazy skills to weld all positions... which is why mig is so popular.

All of the framework on the truck aside from the 4130 tube is 1/8 wall.

[Gary V]

Small update... finished the main hoop cross bracing. Hope to get the seats set in place this coming weekend.