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03-30-2020, 11:01 AM | #1 |
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Did you want to increase the strength at the shock mounts or change the geometry? Whatever the case, the final result looked good and clean. Where did you get the brackets?
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03-30-2020, 11:18 AM | #3 |
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The stock shocks mounted outside the frame rails and with the Second Gen Camaro rear end there was not enough room to run them in stock location as the they would hit the inside of the wheels, so I made my own brackets.
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03-30-2020, 01:43 PM | #4 |
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I have that same mig, got it from a buddy at Airgas. Seems to work well for me too.
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03-30-2020, 01:48 PM | #5 |
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Awesome I got the demo floor model from Matheson for about 50% off with helmet, gloves, and a tank of gas, it's nice and heavy isn't it with proper metal guts not plastic shiet. Can you please tell me what your settings are for welding 1/8th thick square tubing for example, I just can't get it dialed in to give me that "concave" bead looking weld... UPDATE: one month later, figured it out, I just had to increase my wire speed by one notch from a 2 to a 3 setting! but at the time I kept twisting the wrong knob (ie the volts) like an idiot.
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On 1/8" I'm running D at about 3, with .035 wire on thicker steel and on the sheet metal I'm on C at ~2.5 with .023 wire.
I keep fiddling with the settings trying to get a better feel for it, but I keep going back to these two.
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04-03-2020, 09:17 PM | #9 |
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a while back I got that rollpan in the organic paint booth and gave it a coat of high end cheap primer, lol
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04-03-2020, 09:22 PM | #10 |
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it's held on with screws for now (pronouned: "ever") ha ha and I like it it's probably good for another 20 hp, what do you all think
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04-06-2020, 02:51 PM | #12 |
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nothing to write home about, just liberated the 45 lbs horn from the "core support" in order to have more access to mounting yet another radiator and fabricating the lower radiator core support crossmember
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04-06-2020, 05:14 PM | #13 |
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I just removed one of those horns too. Couldn't get it to do anything and I needed the room anyway.
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Yeah, I feel a little guilty taking it to scrap. Feels like I'm cheating them.
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not the best pics sorry about that, but with the grille out of the way it is time to think on the bottom radiator support crossmember thinga jobbie, and I'm seriously considering going back to a pull electric fan setup instead of this push idea
now yes I do shaddy work, but I don't take credit where it ain't do, and this is all prior owners from like 7 owners ago frame rail cut job Last edited by Gregski; 04-10-2020 at 11:47 AM. |
04-06-2020, 10:39 PM | #17 |
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so here's another look at the passenger side frame rail and how far it sticks out past the front inner fender facia
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and here's another look at the driver side, I use the 1/2 extension to show you there's a perpendicular set of holes in this second gen Camaro subframe that you can use as a reference for making a decision as where to cut
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literally this little bent passender side front fender support rod is solely responsible for what happened next....
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04-06-2020, 10:50 PM | #20 |
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I tell you what I can literally sit there in my broken down lawn chair with a semi cold flat beer in my hand and stare at this next pic for hours, I am so fascinated with all the mechanical engineering - how about you?
So yeah I think we are woppin' 4" off of those frame rails to get some proper clearance Last edited by Gregski; 05-03-2020 at 08:29 AM. |
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it appears someone brushed up against my passenger front fender ever so slightly
honestly, the dent's didn't bother me as much as the proper alignment of that bottom tie rod I showed you earlier Last edited by Gregski; 05-03-2020 at 08:30 AM. |
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and here's how it looked on the inside
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tools of the trade...
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04-06-2020, 10:58 PM | #24 |
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and... good enuff for Gobermint work!
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... and it's belly all semi streightened, I still need to tack weld a few cracks, but you get the idea of the quality of my work, and I use both terms loosely
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