Thanks Steve. How did the Photobucket pics work out for you. Anything in there you could use?

Got a few new parts in the last couple days. I got my brackets from Roger at Ironworks. http://www.ironworksspeedandkustom.com/

This is for the Mast ECU. Once I get my Highway 22 wiring harness, I'm going to send it to Roger and he will make a bracket for that and then I'll weld them together and put them both in the glove box area.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000834.jpg

I was originally going to go with a Lokar foot emergency brake, but as soon as I saw Roger's hand brake bracket, I knew I was going with a hand brake. Here's the bracket

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000835.jpg

I also got a Lokar hand brake and tried it in the bracket. Gonna like this set up.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000840.jpg

Lots of room for the cables to hook up. The front is closed in.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000842.jpg

I also got a set of coil relocation brackets. These things are sweet. I was going to try and make a set myself, but I can guarantee they wouldn't have come even close to these. I'm going to put these on the subframe just in front of the headers.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000836.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000838.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000839.jpg

I also got started on officially making my car a no-smoking area.

Out with the old

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000844.jpg

In with the new

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000846.jpg

Welded in. Still need to finish cleaning it up. I'm really happy with the way my welds have been turning out. Thanks again for the great tips Greg.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000848.jpg

I plan on heading out to the shop again tomorrow so will post pics if I get anything done.

Very nice Mike. Keep us posted.

Thanks :cheers:


So not much of an update today as I was feeling lazy. I got the ash tray area welds cleaned up. When I was welding in the new metal, I noticed that the dash went in on a bit of an angle. I tried to push it out, but you can still see a bit of a dent. It also doesn't help when the primer on the rest of the dash is thicker. A little more with a hammer and dolly should help. Also, once it gets to a temperature to where I don't have to use 220 construction heaters, I'll put some filler on there and smooth it out. Here's how it looks so far. I think I like it better without the ash tray.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000851.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000850.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000852.jpg

Not a huge update, but an update none the less. A couple weeks ago I went and got some new tools. The brand is Magnum. It's a Chinese brand, but they still weren't cheap. The owner of the tool store gave me a really good deal so I thought why not. They are all very heavy so I know the steel is good. For as often as I will actually use them, they should do me fine.

36" pan and brake

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000868.jpg

Heavy duty shrinker and stretcher with foot pedal

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000861.jpg

The nice thing about the heavy duty one is how deep the throat is. The regular barely had any room to play at all

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000862.jpg

Bead roller with 15" throat. It came with 3 sets of beads and 3 sets of flanges. I'll likely end up getting a set of the shear ends for it. I just need to grab a 2" piece of steel tube next time I'm in town and I'm going to make a stand for it.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000859.jpg

Today I started making the console. I thought I would document it, whether or not it turns out okay. I decided to try making it out of metal. I'm using 1/4" round bar for the skeleton and then I will wrap it with sheet metal. I'm going to build it in 3 stages: first the arm rest area, then the front part of it and then I will connect the two. If you've never done work with round bar, it's slow going.

I made the two side like this

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000864.jpg

And then added round bar between the two. My plan is to have the back of the hand brake hidden and only the handle showing. Here's how the arm rest looks so far. I also plan on adding a hinged pad on top.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000866.jpg

You are off to a good start Mike!.. I did not bolt the console to the dash because I will leave that to the upholstery shop.. Got a meeting on Saturday with him & will ask the question.. & let you know



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Nice tools.:thumbsup: Stainless tool box is way cool.I wish I had a really big box.like the non smoker idea.:lol: Scott

Thanks Chris. That would be great. I haven't completely decided yet how I'm going to do it at the dash, but considered blending it into the dash.

Thanks Scott. Yeah I like the stainless box. It wasn't too badly priced either. I got it at Costco. I had a Craftsman one on order, but as soon as I saw the one at Costco..the Craftsman one got canceled.

Mike --

Might consider getting some X braces in there... people like to use arm rests to lean on etc.

Thanks Greg. I still have a ways to go on it. That's just the main shape for now. I ran out of round bar. Grabbed a bunch more last night. Thanks for the tip though, it's easy to overlook things.

Finally got back into the shop to get a bit more done. I've been working a ton of overtime lately. Bad thing with that...no shop time. Good thing though.....more parts. After next week I'll have gotten an extra 43 hours of double bubble :D Hope to make a parts run in a couple more months.

Picked up a few more tools since the last update.

Got a ring roller. Works great with 1/4" round bar.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000875.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000874.jpg

I also picked up a universal metal bender, more for bending round bar. It was on sale for $40 so I thought why not. http://www.princessauto.com/workshop...l-metal-bender

I started on the front part of the console. I ran a piece of string across the car to give me a straight line as a guide.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000877.jpg

I'm glad I remembered that I had a Vintage Air unit to put in still. I started measuring to run the console almost to the firewall and then I remembered the a/c.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000879.jpg

After about 5 straight hours in the shop, I ended up with this

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000881.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000885.jpg

Once I get the center section in place, I plan on running the front of the console on more of an angle. It won't be sitting straight up like it is now.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000889.jpg

And I reinforced the arm rest. These things look they should be at Paul Jr. Designs with all the round bar :devil:

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000883.jpg

This one almost looks like a chassis

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000882.jpg

Here's with it in place

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000887.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000890.jpg

And finally the two in place. I plan on using round bar to connect the two parts and then wrap it all with sheet metal. Not sure if I will just paint it or wrap it in leather.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000891.jpg

What do you guys think of it so far??