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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:28 pm
by TanManS14
Sick.. Where did you get ideas for making the frame, and all the structural work? Been around lots of custom muscle cars and such or what? Lookin really good man.

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:39 pm
by TinyT
thanks bro. Im a huge fan of outlaw drag racing, and I spend a lot of time on yellowbullet.com looking over setups. I know a lot of race car builders and have just been around it over the years. I actually spent a day with a guy named Mike Rees a few weeks back. He is a few years older than me and built an outlaw 10.5 camaro, and Troy Coughlins pro mod. Super cool guy, and I picked his brain all day for fabrication advice.

Other than that, it might sound stupid, but I just have a feel for what adding bars and gussets are going to do and how its going to affect the chassis. We will see how it performs :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V3QhCm1740

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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:24 pm
by TanManS14
That car is dirty. I was looking at the amount of room i have, really quite limited, and was imagining a setup like yours (minus the firewall back lol). It allows you to setup your coolers anyway you want, which i really like. Cause it'd be nice to have short charge piping and room to stick my hands in front of the motor. Im going to hold off and just get everything running/get more experience welding first, but i definitely find it interesting. For some reason with cars i think years ahead, with school, minutes. lol. I know what you mean about envisioning chassis strength though. That's really cool you have the opportunity to be around **** like that.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 12:06 am
by veilside180sx
Seeing that crappy HF Ram makes me cringe...hated that thing. It's fine if you are only doing a couple of bends, but way too much wasted time to do something real with it. The Pro-Tools dies aren't bad though.

You could've just purchased a Tube Tek for about the same price as what you have into the Got Trikes as well.

If you are going to bend relatively frequently, spend the money on a Baileigh. I love my RDB-125, but really want a 250.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:39 am
by TinyT
TanManS14 wrote:That car is dirty. I was looking at the amount of room i have, really quite limited, and was imagining a setup like yours (minus the firewall back lol). It allows you to setup your coolers anyway you want, which i really like. Cause it'd be nice to have short charge piping and room to stick my hands in front of the motor. Im going to hold off and just get everything running/get more experience welding first, but i definitely find it interesting. For some reason with cars i think years ahead, with school, minutes. lol. I know what you mean about envisioning chassis strength though. That's really cool you have the opportunity to be around **** like that.
yep! I cant wait to start on my new manifolds and start plumbing everything!


and veilside, my car is real, the tubular subframes I make for e30/s54 swaps are real, and the e30,evo8,galant vr4 and s13 I have on the books to cage are all real, and It bends just fine :wink:
Next thing on the agenda is a home. When I upgrade benders it will be to a mittler bros.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 9:22 pm
by veilside180sx
TinyT wrote:
and veilside, my car is real, the tubular subframes I make for e30/s54 swaps are real, and the e30,evo8,galant vr4 and s13 I have on the books to cage are all real, and It bends just fine :wink:
Next thing on the agenda is a home. When I upgrade benders it will be to a mittler bros.
C'mon, am I really supposed to be impressed because you will do a few other chassis?

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:39 am
by TinyT
Lol. I don't even know who you are and haven't seen anything you do. I'm not really interested in your advice based off your opinions. My homemade bender makes nice bends and work fine for what I need to do. I'm not a fan of baleigh and just because you over payed for a bender doesn't mean my work cant be as good or better than whatever it is you do.

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:11 am
by Nissanman09
Looking good. Can't wait to see finished product. Can't wait to have the money to build my 240 after nursing school. I got too many ideas but haven't decided which ones to use haha

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:41 am
by Jordan Gladman
So is this a drag car or are you planning to put it through the twisties?

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 12:05 pm
by TinyT
havent we been over this haha. drag car. it better not turn at all I dont feel like moving around at 160mph :P

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:09 pm
by Jus14
Looking great! wish i had the welders, cutters and benders maybe eventually lol...and very nice looking welds btw

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:06 am
by supakat
TinyT wrote:just because you over payed for a bender doesn't mean my work cant be as good or better than whatever it is you do.
This is very true. I hate when people put a price on quality. Granted it is true sometimes and other times it gets busted. I love when it gets busted because you've spent less than the other person and got the same results but saved 50%.

Keep up the good work on both the car and ingenuity of tools.

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:25 am
by k12ispl
man, those are some clean welds, i gotta get my hands on a welder so i can learn

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:14 am
by Jordan Gladman
TinyT wrote:havent we been over this haha. drag car. it better not turn at all I dont feel like moving around at 160mph :P
Sorry, with all that talk about suspension and making everything super strong and the wheel pic posted above, I got "Mark Washington" confused.

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:37 pm
by supakat
^^^^^ :lol:

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:27 pm
by Mark Washington
WTF?^^

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:01 pm
by TinyT
Dirty wheels needed some life brought back to them.

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Ya, that will do.

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Oh, and I got the daily driver sittin right.

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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:00 pm
by supakat
the daily is sitting nice. Keep up the good work.

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 9:58 am
by beercandrifter
the color looks really good on those wheels man. Did a great job with them

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 6:34 am
by TinyT
thanks doods!

finishing the wheels up today. chucked the barrels up in the lathe and spun them at 1000rpm. cut them down with 80, then 220, then red scotch brite pad and cleared.

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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:48 am
by airman
Baller status. That kicks ass

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:07 am
by koukidriver
Nice

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 11:15 am
by k12ispl
very nice sir

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:42 am
by TinyT
Thanks dudes! Im starting a checklist and getting certain aspects %100 percent done.

heres a few more

sandblasted, primed, and painted. didnt scratch a one putting them on.

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she filled out nicely
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 8:38 pm
by niceguy
Nice job on the wheels...what method did you use to keep from tearing the paint off the bolts? I know some use tape and other stuff but either way, it's still tedious at times....

I'm really tempted to snag that small Eastwood powdercoating kit myself...

Keep up the nice DIY craftsmanship!


Jeremy

Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 8:51 pm
by TinyT
thanks yo. I didnt have to use a 12pt on the bolts putting them together. they have 3 little dots on the flange side and it holds it on the wheel. I cranked on the nuts and the stud didnt spin. Iv had them apart before and put them together like this and they didnt loosen at all.

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 8:58 pm
by wesamiss
Im really liking the tubular front and your work. subbed, very nice build man

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 11:36 pm
by TinyT
Thanks man. Should really come together this summer. Im really looking forward to building a chassis table and doing a full chassis build.

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 11:18 am
by smbonn2005
Hey Tiny, could you post up some better pictures of how you have your fuel cell in there? I know I saw you building a frame for it to sit on but really didnt see any good pics of it, and I will have to do close to the same for my setup.

Thanks man

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 5:54 pm
by cleantune
I'm loving those wheels! Huge difference from what they looked like before. Nice work man