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Posted: **Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:53 pm**

Amazing build mate. This car alone makes me want to go to the nats....

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:32 pm**

Awesome

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:58 pm**

Boy this is one of the most interesting builds along with Mal,s yellow fb he did.Very inspiring and giving me heaps of ideas.Keep it up.

cheers
Tony

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:59 pm**

Thanks for the words of encouragement!!

Made the mount for the PowerGlide. Made 2 mounts that are attached to doublers, the doublers will be fully welded to the original subframe then some additional MIG welds on the subframe to floorpan (just for good measure

). These pics show the first prefit, doublers are not tacked yet, have to remove all the deadner and then tack them in place, once the motor etc is removed they will be welded on with the car rotated on the rotisserie (bugger welding overhead, getting too old for that

).

pic below: Mounting brackets that are welded to the doublers on the subframe rails:

Tacked to Doublers:

Subframe mounts in for prefit and measure length of Transmission cross member:

Finished crossmember:

Final prefit before cleaning and tacking in place.

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:04 pm**

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:49 pm**

Great fab work!

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:52 pm**

BEWDIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mate your screaming along.

Regards

Greg

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:15 pm**

pure sex.

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:56 pm**

great work i can only guess your craft is metel work boiler maker maybe ?

cant wait to see this girl in the flesh

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:18 am**

Dude you are a GOD....!!!

You work is amazing....i love how you just get in there and get the job done to such a high standard!

also having a shed in a shed means you got plenty of room to move!

cheers
NoMAD

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:30 pm**

.... you guys are far tooooo kind!! thanks for the posts!!

ekdave1962, close mate, I'm a fitter machinist by trade (a while ago

)

bigalhusband wrote: The peice that you put above the rear end that has clearance for the diff, the photos dont show the shock mounts only small holes shouldnt there be some strengthening there as there is lots of preasure from the vertical movement from the shocks .My floor tore around the original mounts when I had similar coil over shocks I had to weld 1/8th plate there to stop flexing

Here ya go bigalhusband, coilover shock mounts are made, I have changed them from vertical to angled in at the top .... reason is to allow the two exhaust pipes to exit over the diff and between the wheel and the coilover. Not enough room to run pipes on the inside of the coils and it also causes a problem with the Alloy drop tank

. The drop tank has been notched each corner to allow the exhaust to run through with good clearance, I will post a pic on the next tank prefit

.

Shock top mount, material is 50x50x4mm RHS:

Plated over, mainly to water proof but does also add strength:

Inside view, the "silver section" is the inside face of the 50x50 RHS, the darker (redish/brown) sections are the "plated" areas that were done mainly to seal the boot from the weather:

This pic shows why the cut out was the shape it was, coilover fits in reasonably equal each side, this is hard to tell from the outside (boot).

Final resting place for the shocks, have to do Panard now, was going to use Watts Link but it is too tight .... I think, haven't given up on the Watts completely ..................... yet

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:57 pm**

Whats the story, do you mob have 36 hour days up there or something ?
The rate this thing is coming together, you will have a second one done for the nationals !!!!

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:59 pm**

must be something in the water...

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:47 pm**

Its always raining you have to have a indoor hobby

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:56 pm**

Your a '' FREAK '' Garry

great work mate

Jay

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