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Then the bigger jobs started..... Tim did such an awesome job with the rear valance and bumper that I couldnt leave the front bumper dead stock. The idea was to tuck it in nice and tight and complement the rear bumper....turned out awesome. I'm not 100% sure yet, but my plan is to plate the bumper...maybe a brushed look....so the metal finnish had to be dead on....tons of work
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...I/IMG_2348.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...I/IMG_2347.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...I/IMG_2383.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...I/IMG_2384.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...I/IMG_2382.jpg And just for the record....if anyone wants to copy me...go right ahead :thumbsup: |
Those bumpers, at the ends are such a weird shape in stock form, what a great improvement.....looks perfect....Schmooove!
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I'd also like to take the chance to thank Cris..
He's super busy with some really cool projects....much bigger projects with bigger budgets than mine, but he's taken time to help me out with my project and with the budget I have to work with. He's doing the best he can to give me the absolute best "bang for the buck" with the budget $$ I have to use for these modifications. I wish I had more $$ to have him do everything on the car I'd love to do..... And before Weld jumps in here with some smart ass comment about how "cheap" I am.... STFU rich boy :D ....... love ya bro.....:thumbsup: |
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Ned, This is exactly what I have looking into, any other pictures? |
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I wasn't going to say a word you cheap f! :lol: Looks great! Think of what you could do with a truckload of money! :woot: |
Any time you want to send me a truckload of $$ I'm sure I can arrange to be home to sign for it :)
Mike... thats all the pix I have right now...maybe some more later this week. I do have a bunch from some 1st gen projects.... that area is different between the cars, so I couldnt do the exact same thing..plus some of them did the supports when the quarters were off too... you can email me direct and I can send you the pix... [email protected] |
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Love the car and you too! And you know it. :cheers: |
Bumper looks fantastic Ned!
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Thats going to be a bitchin ride :thumbsup: One of my favorite body styles of all times.
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bumper looks awesome man. just what it needed:thumbsup:
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glad to to see your still at it
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Its looking sweet!:thumbsup:
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brushed bumpers sound awesome!
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Ned, spectacular. Cuda's are the coolest fixed up and you've got it at the right shop.:thumbsup:
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Great updates. Keep up the great work. The front end is looking awesome so far.
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Nice progress! :thumbsup:
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Heading to JCG tomorrow AM to pick up the car...wish me luck :thumbsup:
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Don't forget pictures Ned! Can't wait to see it. So how far did Cris take it??
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Car is back....made a quick hot lap...drove down 6.5 hours...went over the car, bull****ted, got some details finnished up and drove 6.5 hours back :)
Cris took my "to do list" as far as my budget would allow....wish my budget was bigger but it isnt...the work turned out great....just wish I had more $$ allotted to get more done There were also a few issues I need to correct, that prevented Cris from doing some things on my "to do list". Not his fault.... The big one was the finalizing the pinion angle. I set my engine down at 3 degrees (based on all the info and recommendations out there) and did my exhaust, notched the frame, built a trans crossmenber etc etc. I was going to have Cris finalize the rear end pinion and weld on the brackets etc. Well my rear diff apparently is a decent amount higher than my trans output, so with the engine down 3 degress the working angle is too steep...so I either need to drop my rear diff, or up my engine angle to around 1.5 degress down......so it looks like I'll need to re-do the frame notch, trans tunnel, crossmember etc etc.....which is fine.....but I cant afford to pay someone to do all of that...and I can do it myself...so finalizing the pinion had to wait for now. Still got a ton to do...... I'll post some pix soon.... |
were waiting :lol:
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Hi Ned, I set my driveline angle 1 deg down and set my pinion angle at 1 nose up. This gives me a level drive shaft and keeps the exhast from pointing towards the ground. https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php4?t=30781
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Any updates on this?
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Wow its been a long time since I did any updates..... The car is plugging away as I get time.
First on order was to get the rear suspension all figured out....When Tim altered the rear Air Ride stuff to get the car to sit lower it made it look bad ass, but completely destroyed all the geometry...... the UCA and LCA were like 10 degrees going up to the rear at ride height, and the pinion gain was ridiculous. I had planned on changing the rear end/LCA bracket anyway since I hate the big bulky u-bolt set-up, so this was the time.... This is how the LCA was sitting at ride height...not going to work.... http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...I/IMG_7577.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...I/IMG_7579.jpg So the best way I could figure was to take the front mount and put it on top of the crossbar....which in order to do I had to cut out some of the floor... http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...I/IMG_7588.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...I/IMG_7585.jpg Which got me a lot closer to where I needed to be..... I then made new axle brackets to raise the mount point on the axle tube, so I had 1-2 degrees down in the front..... I didn't take pix of that.... |
This is the "before" stock Air Ride set-up before we altered anything..
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...I/IMG_1044.jpg I had Paul Horton at www.welderseries.com make me some new LCA brackets that no only got rid of the u-bolts, but allowed me to drop the axle LCA mount point so that it was about 1 degree down in the back ( the pix is with the car at full extended height, so that's not the angle at ride height...)....plus add some holes for adjustments. I had Leonard over at Dominator Street Rods weld on the brackets for me http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps65200524.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps8d3846fa.jpg All this was after messing with the pinion/working angles for weeks and weeks. Once I got that where I wanted, I had the axle brackets welded on for good. Then I ordered up a driveshaft from www.driveshaftshop.com. I had them build one with the front CV joint...that way I have more flexibility with the front working angle...I just need to work with the rear working angle http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps22c3104c.jpg Its rated to over 800 HP, so I'm not worried about it breaking anytime soon... |
Now that the rear suspension was finalized I could finally build the trans tunnel. I mocked together a temporary driveshaft while I was messing with the pinion...that way I could also see how much height I needed to add with the car fully dumped etc.
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...psaea8e5ca.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps8d68e4aa.jpg The whole trans tunnel was made by hand....I don't have a slip roller etc, so it was bent over my MIG gas tank, my knee and anything else I could find....not dead on symmetrical, but it will do.. http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps7ee5ed07.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps6ef90ca0.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps3a1b587c.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps4428b524.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...psc3ec0e3c.jpg |
Hi Ned
Glad to see your still working on it. ? Did you shorten the upper arm at all |
While at JCG Cris cut and rotated the Ride Tech gas filler, so then I just had to modify the trunk lock bracket and the hole in the trunk floor to get it all dialed in and fit so I can take it in/out. I tightened up the gasket gap alittle more after this pix...it air tight now
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps144bc700.jpg I also wanted to have some firewall to frame support but didn't want some big bulky bars in the engine bay, so I had Cris make some that run in the fenderwells...in the e body there is a ton of space in there......the ones he mocked up for me to finnish didn't really work so I made some new ones from scratch. They just barely clear with the car fully dumped :) I also made some bracket and gussets to the fenderwell and firewall. They also give me some nice spots to attach my AC lines, wires, air intake bracket etc etc http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...I/IMG_7584.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...I/IMG_7583.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...I/IMG_7582.jpg |
Fuel lines and mount for the regulator was next. I wanted to run the reg in back and have a short return line. There is not a ton of room back there, so I elected to mount it to the tank itself. I used the Pegasus Racing PTFE lines and fittings....damn that stuff is expensive !!
I am alittle concerned about how close the tank is to the diff.....I had to take the big Moser cover off and use a standard stamped cover. Everything clears but if I ever get rear ended, the diff is going to hit the tank pretty quick. The pix make it look closer than it ..there's a good 1.5 inch between the closest piece and the diff throughout the range of motion. I made a heat shield between the reg and exhaust too. http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...pseb41badd.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps083fc9d7.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...psb80f889e.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...psbd2c3610.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps51e7e96b.jpg |
I had to make some room for the diff pumpkin in the trunk so I made it high enough I could run some lines etc up in the pocket. It worked out perfect to mount up my Finch vent system in the trunk and run my diff vent and fuel tank vent up there. Plenty of clearance even with the car dumped.
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps6ec23c35.jpg I wasn't 100% satisfied with the exhaust Rob and I built....the tailpipe angle to the lower valance was not quite right and the tips didn't line up square..so I re-did the tailpipes to get the angle right and get allitle more clearance to the air bags..and added another v-band clamp to make the pieces smaller http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...psb797c577.jpg After seeing some of the issue with the frame cracking when the G-link etc was welded to the frame instead of bolted in, I got freaked out since I fully welded in my AirBar. So I made some plates to mount to the outside of the frame, and drilled 2 holes through the plate and the bracket on the inside of the frame. I'm going to run 2 through frame bolts to help spread the load on the frame and act as a safety factor just in case the frame cracks or tears.. probably paranoid, but I can sleep better knowing its beefed up alittle more http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps6e297369.jpg last of the rust repair....I cut these pieces out when I had the car blasted and never got around to filling them back in.. until now... http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps8f4127f9.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps2cf05638.jpg |
The car has been in bare metal for quite awhile now.... when I had it blasted I did epoxy it but with all the metal work 80% of the original epoxy is gone. So now that I'm finally winding down on the big metal work, I need to get it back in epoxy. So I prepped and shot the doors, front fenders and trunk lid.
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...pse9102f04.jpg So that's where it stands right now for the most part. Right now I put the car back on the rotisserie and am going over all the welds and doing final grinding/dressing etc. I'm going to have Dominator weld on my brackets for the rear UCA front mounts (any high stress areas, I'm having the pros weld on...don't trust my own enough)....then I'm going to take it back to the blaster and have them "touch it up" by blasting all the underside, floor and any spots really difficult to get to (seams, welds etc) and then get it back into epoxy. Then mock it all up again, and start my hard lines for brakes, fuel, brakes etc |
hey Marty
The rear UCA ?...no its the same length....maybe a turn or two different. I tried to run it in the middle of its threads to give me as much adjustment longer/shorter as possible. Other than that, its the same length as it comes form Ride Tech |
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Looks good, Ned!
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Does look good Ned, nice progress and thanks for the update.
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Nice to see your still at it progress is golden keep chipping away a little at a time just keep your eye on the prize. you are going to run into alot of hurdles when you take on a build of this nature and you are doing a great job overcoming them. great job on the build keep up the great work!
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if you want the tip to always stay in the same location, you want to hard mount the tip centered in the valance and have the expansion joint before it, so that the tip will always stay in place as the exhaust moves around. |
Yes,more mopars.:thankyou:
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Yeah Bob I know the expansion part of the joint really isn't going to come into play with the current mount......it just gives a little more ability to adjust the tip and then clamp it down.... Not that worried about expansion that far back anyway... I have a bigger one mounted further up stream....
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nice work ned. All this time i thought it was still at Chris's place.
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Looks good man :)
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