pain in the rrrs stuff laying around

[EK JAY]

This one looks like a keeper mick ?

[Mick]

said it a million times i really hope so, atleast this time if i get asked how much i'm gunna make it really worthwhile getting rid of it
every other time i thought i have given people prices i thought would scare them off but backfired

[STANLEY]

put a/c in it then you will have half a chance of keeping it.

[vmx-mxr]

Are you sure with all the major engineering superstructure removed the whole floor isn't going to collapse ?
Good thing you took pics or no one would have believed it !!!
Looks like another good car heading our way

[wot179]

Done.






Floor stiffener, engine and gearbox mounts and some brake lines to go, and Mick can do his thing with it.

[Mick]

love yor work

[wot179]

Some progress pics of how I did the tunnel stiffener.

Chopped up an old bit of galvanised (yuck) RHS that I had laying about.

Pics tell the tale.







Had to trim one edge to allow for the taper of the tunnel.

I guessed it, but it worked out fine anyway...lol



Jacked it in..



Tacked in and fully welded.


Got some gaps to fill because the original floor stiffener was cut back too short some time in the past,and a bit of trimming, but its getting there.

[Mick Jagger]

Great work
Man I've been sick a few times welding galv pipe
Shaking sweating n shit
Once I thought I was dying
Lol
I hope auto floor moulded carpet fits these humps

[wot179]

Yeah...welding gal is hell.

Its the closest Ive felt to being dead, too, after a day of inhaling that sweet tasting white smoke.

Sweating and shaking....I even got to hallucinate and babble!

Way worse than the drunkest I ever got.

Luckily I sanded it all off the welding surfaces first on this job.

[Devilrod]

I hope auto floor moulded carpet fits these humps

It does, the only thing I did was use a heat gun on the back of the carpet to take out the lump where the factory bracing runs on the inside. Heat it then flatten till the shape matches that section of tunnel.



You can just make out where the moulded bit for the bracing was.

Wot for mine we did a heap of cuts in some box tube till it was the right shape, then weld and grind. If I was to redo it I'd be following your lead! So much less work with the grinder.....

[Mick]

wanted to run plain HT/HG chromies on this car rang a place about some today $1600 if they supply centres and $1450 if i supply where the hell do they pluck these prices from can buy in US$ (not HT pattern HQ or multi) and + freight around $100-$120 a rim no wonder people put ugly big diameter or billet wheels on there cars

[wot179]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/261574999156 ... 1423.l2649

[Mick]

they're in my watch list but based on things i've seen before if i can find the right place in the states i could probly get them over cheaper myself i've looked at summit but there is other places that just do wheels, plus they are 15"and i don't really want to go that big and if they are multi i have to run hub caps something i also don't want
thanks though

[wot179]

I'll find you a set at Toowoomba swap.

[Mick Jagger]

Chrome plating has always been expensive
I think the finish of the steel is what you get in
The chrome
To get the proper finish on rims I think they used
To split each one
It's a dying trade
The chrome is better these days
On a silver pandora thing