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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Got a new plasma cutter on the weekend. So today we started by cutting the 90* frame bends into two 45* bends. Then we made a temporary gig to tack the sub assemblies
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
We did a bunch of tig welding and grinding on the sub assemblies yesterday. Today we clamped the front corners in place then tack welded them
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
I'm really liking the frame your doing!!
nice work.. Mark...
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Enjoy the ride Rusty Thanks Reaper. Building the frame is kind of fun. Here's Fridays progress. We Tig welded most of the perimeter frame, until we ran out of argon. then we tacked some sub assemblies
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Killer work
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Thanks rusty
Thanks reaper Frame work is fun Thanks for following hotrod Thanks Free Candy I am watching your cool panel build as well Today we started modifying the front crossmember. First we made a 1/4 X 2 plate with two nuts welded to one side. Welded it to the mounting point for the frame. Then we started cutting the 2X4 frame section
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Very COOL project! Nice work.
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Great build you have going on. Its probably to early to tell but how do you like the versa cut 60? I have been looking at it for awhile. It had very good reviews.
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
looking really good...
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Thanks reaper
Started working on the front frame rail for the drivers side. In the first picture notice the angle between the horizontal and vertical where the frame rail sits. In the second picture we cut a 3/8 strip out of the bottom of the frame rail and two cuts on the side. Then used clamps to bend side. The third picture is the side tacked
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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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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
i see why you called it twisted, with all those "twists" and turns and the frame rails. like i said if you need a shop hand/whipping boy im your guy!!! what thickness on the frame rails are you using!!!
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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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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
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! ![]()
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
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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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Fantastic looking work on the frame. Looking forward to following your build.
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
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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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
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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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Frame and burb are looking good!
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Thanks Guys
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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