progress - sort of

Here's the latest.

I got 3 whole tubes in. The next cuts are another set of compound angle. Those take forever.

Below is the 3 new tubes in Red:

Weekend progress

Well the latest progress pic doesn't show much more than the last one. We had house guests all weekend and I really only had a bit of time to work on the car. I spent a good chunk of that time getting more steel.

Note. Make sure if you decide to have your steel cut into car compatible chunks that you get them cut to the longest piece you will be needing (top tube). Last week I bought all my round tube and instead of thinking, I had them cut them into 5 foot pieces. One of the pieces needed to be ~70 inches so I was looking at trying to join 2 small pieces into one long one or just ponying up 7 bucks for the length I needed.

Oh well, If i expected to get it right every time I'd be doing an easier project.



So all I got done are the:
rear bulkhead assembly plates and the supports (x1,x2,w1,w2)


I left all the bends for later. I may be borrowing a bender from my Dad this weekend. If so it will make that a lot easier. Otherwise I'll build my own.
Next weekend I'll be out of town, so Evenings is all I've got this week.

Progress

As always, the blue is done.... More to be done this weekend.

inspiration

inspiration
and
this

Was informed to warn users that the above links go to Youtube.

headlights

Looking at the following
lights...

car name

So I am now thinking about what the car will be named when it is finished. Luckily I have a lot of time to mull this over. However I am going to open it up to suggestions. What about it? Bob, Dean, Todd?

Here's my first thought
Nigel
or Billingsworth
or Some title from either Molly Hatchet or Black Sabbath

Weekend update

I got more of the frame constructed, but I forgot to pull the pictures off the camera. I'll add them tonight. Got the cross tubes tacked in and started to assemble the section tha sits behind the seats.

in this picture the stuff I got done is red:



In this version, the blue is done and the red is what I did this weekend.

Slow week.

Business travel and guests have made this an unproductive week. I hope to get caught up on the weekend. Lots of welding and grinding to get done.

3d frame shots

OK here are the newest progress pics...



Another angle (note the worlds worst bench grinder in the background):

Weekend Update

Over the weekend I managed to get the frame into the 3rd dimension. Let me sat this. getting the Jigs set up is a lot of work. As is getting the longish bits to fit where they belong.

supplier

I found a guy 20 minutes away who sells Locost body parts and fasteners. I'm going to try and check it out sometime.
Kinetic vehicles in Creswell, OR

Mumsford rear link

front suspension ideas

Saw a cool design for the front suspension.




Also this one seems interesting to me. But those A-arms are really far back.



Other than that I have done little but file down my welds from this weekend. I pl,an on working on this on Friday and Saturday this week so I should have some good progress to show by Monday.

More suspension parts

I got these cheap on Ebay. they are the right length for either front or rear. If I can find 1 more 99 r6 shock I should be set for the first suspension build.

Welding begins

I started to weld the bottom rails yesterday. It went pretty well once I got it dialed in. I used a piece of ground wire and hooked it to the welder ground and the other piece in the weld to make sure that the weld would go smoothly.


Seemed to work great, however some of the welds are pretty messy. I'll have a bit of cleanup with the grinder to do.

All jiggy

OK. Bottom rails are all ready to weld. I'll hit that this weekend. Tomorrow I have to go to Seattle for business. I'll use some scraps to make sure the welder settings are right for the tubes.



Also I won an auction for an R6 shock. I think I'll use these for the fronts. Now I have to find a second one.

Layout and jigging

Yesterday I exchangd the 5/8 for 3/4. Schnitzer steel was cool about it. I spent last night laying out the bottom rtails and jigging them together ar the appropriate angles. It was slow, timeconsuming work but peaceful and somewhat relaxing. I guess I understand the people who build ships in a bottle a little better now.

Also, my buddy Dean has offered up his engine hoist and stand for me to use. That's going to be a big help.

Tonight I should do some more layout and maybe I can start tack welding this weekend.

Oops wrong plans

2 things happened last night of interest.

1. I realized I was using the +4 plans instead of the +442. The upshot of this was that I had some more cutting to do for the bottom rails.

2. I finally put a tape measure to my 3/4 stock and realized that it was 5/8 stock. Now I need to go back to the steel store and make a return. That should be fun. Luckily it isn't very much to return.

Loaded car

Here is the wagon all loaded up. Not very heavy at all.

120 feet of 1x1 and 40 feet of 3/4 x 3/4...

Here is the bottom rails laid out. I need to clean all the ends up before tacking together. It is pretty cool to see some progress.