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My build took a detour.... I've been enjoying my car as I worked on it until it was hit while parked on the street. Finding a 73 grill for a Cuda is next to impossible. Anyways, yes I know solidworks. I work on 2009 but that should be fine for most shops. PM me and we'll figure something out.
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Two 16' I beams serving as base for my jig, got to get them cleaned up and drilled with many holes for adjustability. Almost 6" flange 8"web and 1/4 thick.
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SBDave let me finalize my jig plan and maybe I can shoot you a drawing to transfer to cad to cut my steel plates out.
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Hey guys thought Id post up so progress. I sourced a 2008 Tremec TR6060 rear transaxle from a vette. Media blasted the case and cleaned it up. I am planning on trying to rebuild it myself one of these days and upgrade it to stronger internals.
Lastly here are a couple of pics of my father's R3 stroker motor for his Tube chassis Duster. He is getting very close to having everything completed and off to paint. Enjoy! http://i51.tinypic.com/2d2f0qw.jpg http://i53.tinypic.com/2wmjn03.jpg http://i52.tinypic.com/29za0kw.jpg |
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Haha believe me Im working as fast as I can!
I also just ordered 5 gallons of evaporust for my i beams and a gallon of eastwood epoxy primer and catalyst! |
there ya go
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Im just keeping the updates Rolling!
1 Gallon of Eastwood Epoxy Primer Black 1 Gallon of Eastwood Catalyst 5 Gallons of Evaporust for my I beams and plates! http://i54.tinypic.com/2wduihf.jpg Lastly I got a hold of some really trick pieces! Dodge R5 CNC billet aluminum piston oil sprayers that have 3 jet sprayers able to adjust the amount of oil! These are really neat, they have a CNC hole through the center of the piece and the bolts have hole passages for the oil to flow. http://i54.tinypic.com/m8zeoy.jpg http://i55.tinypic.com/52gs44.jpg |
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Those are crazy!
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The pictures dont do them justice, its pretty amazing the amount of work into one tiny piece! Now I just have to figure out how to make them work haha
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Well after a very long but productive day, Ive made some good progress and my chassis jig is one step closer to being done. The 1/2 steel had been sitting in the truck for almost 3 months and after driving to pick it up it has finally moved. As you can imagine it is ridiculously heavy, so luckily a friend of the family was able to help out with his crane truck! Unloading was a breeze, I then measured my sections, clamped a channel guide and used a steelmax saw. Even though its only recommended to 5/16 it did a great job and left a very accurate and clean cut. Im pretty worn out after maneuvering the plate all over the place. Ive still got alot more cutting to do and then hopefully going to rent a mag drill and spend a weekend drilling holes. I still have to sandblast or evaporust treat all the metal, epoxy primer everything, put on casters, buy bolts, make chassis fixtures etc. etc. Hope you like today's pics! Thanks for the support guys! My ride is going to be badass!
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Its fun coming home and seeing another goody that has arrived at your door. Today a C6 z06 rear differential showed up that I purchased off ebay 2 days ago. Considering this is a $3000-4000 new differential. Everything looks good to go, however there is a hole in the case due to whatever accident it was involved in an caused the differential cooler to puncture the case. I will form and roll a new piece of aluminum, weld, and finish like new. Needless to say I have developed numerous "mini projects" within my entire project. I plan to completely rebuild it with cryo, micro polished parts, shafts, etc. and finally powder coat it the same black finish as my control arms along with the tr6060.
When I started this I knew I had expensive taste, that only the best would do and I knew that the only way I would have my dream car and have it built to the level of quality that i want was to take parts that I would never be able to afford brand new, that had some sort of flaw and put some work into them to make them nice again. That's part of the fun of it for me, learning to do things myself. The last thing I want to do is be on someone Else's schedule. Stay tuned!!!!!!! http://i43.tinypic.com/23w4jk6.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/23hva8k.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/14jq5aw.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/2h4md6p.jpg |
Well first off I wish I could have had the time or chance to go to SEMA but one day I will and hopefully it will be to display my car. Anyways just wanted to post some progress. On my days off from school and work I try and make at least one cut in the plate which is alot of work in itself, I have about 3 more 6' cuts, then evaporust treatment, grind smooth as possible, scribe, center punch, and drill all my holes. Then it will be getting everything as level as possible and supporting the cross plate underneath. Lot of work to go. Check out my new 6 stage Dailey Pump and Moroso R5 pan, absolutely amazing! I cant wait to get the jig together, prime everything and mount all my components. Hope everyones project is going well. Updates soon!
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This is definitely a cool build! Very ambitious. I like what you're doing with the plate. I thought about doing that for my build but it didn't make sense for the cost and effort considering I'm doing this extensive of a build just once. Great to see this though, keep up the good work.
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Thanks Will, I have to catch up to your project! I know the jig is alot of "unecessary work" but I know when its done it will be awesome and If I want to make an adjustment I can just slide a fixture to the next set of holes very easily. In the future I eventually want to build other projects so I plan on having the jig a long time, so putting in the work now is well worth it.
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Hi Gant!
That oilpan is just sweet, 4 pickups, 2 each side? Very smart structure to have support rail from side to side in the midlle. It's going under maincaps? Maeby I have to copy that to my own pan.. Thanks for sharing. |
The oil pan is really nice 4 pickups, a spot for a oil temp gauge I believe all stainless steel construction, pretty low pan for clearance. 6 stage dry sump pup. Your correct it sits underneath the main caps. Ive thought about duplicating the pan out of a lighter material such as aluminum, but the pan is almost too nice, so I may not
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Hey guys been a little while since I’ve posted anything up, I just finished another semester of school and finals. Anyways got some new toys and going to show you some of the work I have been doing. First off tried my first attempt at polishing the casting off of one of the heads. Spent about two days doing it and it is a whole lot of work and time. One things for sure you have to have the right tools for the job. They are much better in person but I’ve come to the conclusion that I am going to media blast them and probably powder coat them black.
I also picked up a 2 stage Johnson rear end pump that I took apart and I am rebuilding it now. I am going to mate it to the rear pinion cover of the zo6 differential and run it to two oil coolers etc. Anyways I am sourcing a new set of gears and two housings now because a lot of debris ruined the ones I have. Should be pretty cool when it’s done. I also picked up a rather large Patterson dry sump tank I plan on doing some modifications too including filters, heat bungs, etc. Took several hrs. to completely clean the entire tank and I have been working on refinishing the metal and removing some scratches from it. I have not tig welded in a while so going to pick that back up on my school break. You’ll also notice all the red plastic plugs I bought, ha-ha I went a little crazy with them and now I have every plug and size you can imagine, but it will be helpful to keep debris out of the engine in the future. In the last pics you’ll also notice I removed all of the intake gasket material and also been working on repolishign the intake and exhaust ports, still a long ways away from finished and have to still do the other head. Hope you enjoy! http://i40.tinypic.com/358au0i.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/2n1unux.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/2wrevqw.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/xmmk5y.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/309lhg0.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/14vl1de.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/f9p30j.jpg [/IMG]://i43.tinypic.com/b4faz4.jpg[/IMG] http://i44.tinypic.com/feif77.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/v4v05w.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/mls87o.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/11aeoet.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/wcbclx.jpg |
Very Nice!!! :)
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Looking great man!
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Thanks man! I dont know how to resize the photos anyways, so I hope people like them huge like that haha.
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Mini project #888000077 haha
Eventually going to have a billet rear pinion cover machined that accepts the johnson rear end pump, and make a new pinion drive plate that mechanically is driven as the car moves, so I can run some oil coolers for transmission and differential. The pinion cover I got had a crack in it anyways, so it will all work out. I wish I had the all the tools and machinery to rely on myself and keep things moving! http://i41.tinypic.com/16hqlok.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/34pj1on.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/betxdt.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/b7kg42.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/214dog5.jpg |
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Thanks R.A.D
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I always love the pix when there are engine parts all laid out in the house... On the dining room table (with white tablecloth too), on the carpet etc
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3' feet of dash 8an Billet Fuel rail! Collecting parts for my intake, still deciding what I want to do, might chop up a cast ported intake and make it into something cool or save my money and do some billet runners etc.
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yah I wanted to make sure I had enough, probably have extra, havent decided between two or four rails yet, hope I got an adequate size
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hahah:lol:
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Incredible build
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Thanks man, stay tuned!
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Man this is one "trick piece from RCR racing" The previous dry sump tank I bought, one of the sections had some dents, Im not experienced enough to keep workign them out yet so I bought this other section that has a billet double bypass oil filter system similiar to the oberg style completely built in. Check out the pics it is unbelievable.
Im going to cut the bottoms of each tank off and have a water jet flange cut out so I can weld them directly to the tanks and eliminate the clamp style system the patterson systems have and go to something more similiar to that of the peterson styles. http://i42.tinypic.com/b506cp.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/11c7h3s.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/5496c7.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/2gtuis8.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/21mrcw2.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/2ly3okx.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/r8yu4w.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/235tl4.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/zoj87t.jpg |
Did some work on my dry sump tank today. The Patterson style tank uses a clamp style system. I felt that this could be more like the Peterson style where two aluminum rings bolt to each other with a o ring groove machined in between them as a seal.
The tricky part was not deforming the tank in anyway, cutting the flange off and making the cuts and halves straight. I think I did a pretty good job. I used the current clamp and seal as a guide and basically grind-ed down to the line. Worked pretty well and the two halves are level. I might continue to reduce the bottom portion of the tank, but going to wait until determine how much oil my whole setup will need. The tank is huge. I ordered two 1" NPT x 4.5" long 120volt 500 watt oil tank heater probes for the bottom section of the tank and two 1" NPT aluminum weld bungs. I plan on purchasing the metal in the next couple days for a lot of my car machining projects. Ill then have to have the tank flanges cut, drilled for bolts, and welded. Stay tuned. http://i43.tinypic.com/2qiw6li.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/2gt3qr4.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/24cyz45.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/153xvmb.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/20zv42x.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/1tqadg.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/6gzyu9.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/wrl0si.jpg |
Hope all has been well! I have been pretty busy back at school, but just still collecting parts and moving forward. As you can see Ive hunted down alot of parts and accessories to get everything moving when the time comes.
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