Looks great.

Nice looking frame kit from HPI. I emailed them months ago for price and info and they never emailed me back.
Do you have any plans to narrow up the rear, with a kit like ABC Performance?

JUST WANT TO CLEAR THIS UP. THE HPI. CUSTOMS FRAME KIT IS HIGHLY MODIFIED THIS IS NOT THE WAY IT COMES..

Just want to make sure no one orders one and thinks it will look like this! I bought the kit to give me a head start knowing I would have to modify it to make it work for me. still lots more to come on this!
this is what the kit started out looking like.

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Wow I actually feel like we moved forward and getting the Belair out of storage early and being able to drive it to the auto show was a side track for sure, hoping to get focused and keep rolling so I stayed out all night to figure out the exhaust system. I think it payed off and this is what direction we are going now.
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making a little progress with the exhaust and starting to remember how to tig weld thin stainless again. still along way to go to feel comfortable in all postions but making progress.still working on the frame mods and attempting to learn Cad.design on solidworks to make more parts and it is like learning a diffrent langauge to me. still trying to learn something new every day. Somedays it just seams to be what NOT to do!lol.
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Looks real nice!
I know ProE (that's all I do all day) but don't know how to weld.

Eric as always nice work. When I saw the exhaust hanger on the frame I was wondering if you were going to put a drive shaft loop in there.

i have the opposite problem i can weld good and am super slow and confused at this soild works thing!
still not done with the design and final details yet but getting it worked out one piece at a time.so hopefully in the next couple of weeks it will take shape.

making some progress!!!! I think I have strayed away from my original goal of getting this done in 6 months has gone by the wayside and I just am going to focus on just building something kick ass instead of just nice. At least that is my new plan anyways!
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Lookin good there Eric.

Thanks Marcus I hope your car is starting to come together as well!

Making some progress lately it has been a 3 steps forward and only 1 step back so the majiority of progress has been forward. still a long ways to go. learning solid works has been a whole new experience for me I just hope I can get more efficient at it!

tranny crossmember almost done!
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now on to the turbo piping and the rest of the exhaust!

making slow progress but still progress none the less. hoping to get the rest of the exhaust system done in the next week and take off the plywood off and start working on the rest of the frame .

It is the hardest thing to attempt to get things looking symmetrical as possible when everything is everything is Not even close to being symmetrical. it only took 3 times on each side to finally be content with it. still have alot of welding left to go.
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looks like everything up to the motor is all welded up but not done welding the turbo pipes yet.
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Frame is looking good Eric. Are the braces for the frame enclosed? Looks like you put triangular plates in between the bracing. Nice touch......:thumbsup:

Great looking work as usual, Eric. Did you decide on a color for this car yet?

Nice work

yep. I added the triangle tubes and then decided after looking at the bottom of the c5 vette that I parted out for Chevelle money I likes the way the bottom of the car was flat to smooth the air on the bottom of the car so I thought why not. lots more to come on this.
long way from color but kicking some ideas to be finalized.I don't think I will make up my mind until the day I buy the paint.

Thanks Marty I hope you are getting some seat time with your car!

sorry progress has really been slow. still trying to figure out this 3 d cad. thing . and it has been just been kicking my ass.so it looks like it is time to get back on the chevelle!!

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Progress is Progress

I'm with Marty!

Marty true true i just get so dissapointed in myself when I feel like things should go faster. hoping to really get rolling in the next couple of months.

Thanks Wyane for the poke but your right it still is progress so I should be happy with were it is. hope to really get rolling soon so check back for more fun.

Here is my favorite picture so far me and my son decided to make the car into the coolest bar stool racer ever.LOL.


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Talk about getting you ass kicked! between car problems,snowmobile problems,furnace problems,3d cad.learning problems,and crazy busy work schedules there has no time to get back to the Chevelle so finally its time !
I ended up trying to tuck the turbos in far enough to not be able use the stock with radiator so i ordered a northern radiator with the inlets and outlets on the same side and also a drain bung and a steam bung in the radiator already. now is time to make a shroud and do things a little different!http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...psxy2qb7jj.jpg
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Nice!

I like it Eric. I've found it's always tough to get things done this time of the year. And I know you guys have a heat wave going out there. Stay at it.

just getting started with the designs in my head lots more coming up on the shroud!

you too! looks like your making progress on yours as well!

ok so my plan got completely blown out of the water.! lets build a quick cool 70 chevelle and Not do so many crazy mods to it!:mock: :buttkick: .
I guess my brain is not wired right and I just want everything on my cars to be over the top and I am not going to stop tell i get the car the way i want it! I am just going to try to come up with ideas to make this thing awesome! thanks a lot ,Ring Bros,Trapanier,Foose for all of your inspiration! if you guys wold not have made things so awesome we would not have even known that we want that kind of stuff too!

some late night weekend slow progress.
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picked up a bender about a year ago and I thing it is time to get this thing together and put it to use!
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also adding a Swag off road gear air over hyd.kit to it hope to get this done in the next week! I just painted everything and now to make a base for it!

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well this took longer than expected! but i think it is about time to use this thing!

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nice work. I love how the welds look like rivets.....or are those rivets?

Keep the updates enjoy coming I enjoy this thread!

That pic of you and your son on the bar stools is awesome...

Don

Thanks for the interest just starting to get on a roll so i should be able to update more often

not sure how this was intended? weather its from my shaky out of practice welding or??:poke: lol.lots more rivets to come!

anyone looking for a perfect rear frame section going to cut this off and toss it. if you know someone that could use it they can have it.

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starting to get back on track hoping to really get on a roll in the next few weeks. started the rear frame section mods.I hope this turns out as cool as it looks in my head!
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this going to school a couple nights a week working full time and trying to build a car,um or two at the same time is getting old but i feel that I am making progress just slow progress.started on the rear parts and pieces and I just am on the fence about going to a 3 link and a watts link or moving up the stock mounts on the upper bars and maintaining the fabricated mounts on the rear??
any learned info on these changes would really be helpful.
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Eric, I'm using my stock location uppers and lowers out back, although they are adjustable. I'd have loved to go with the watts setup, but refused to allow scope creep to invade the project. I made a gameplan, and stuck to the plan. Although I'm likely going to add a panhard bar later due to tire clearance, as I can't have my rear end moving around. Wish I could help you more.
Oh, is that a receiver hitch?

Stupid scope creep!!! and yep that is a receiver hitch should really help pulling the camper.

Eric,
So what is the reasoning to replace the rear section? Why not just box it?

one word I am and idiot! oh snap is that is more than one word isn't it? LOL. i just love quality fabrication and I am inspired by so many awesome builders and I just want to make something cool and fuctional as well.! i also want to be able to pull a trailer with the car so we can take it on some family camping trips too! and when i get a vision in my head i have to go through and make it happen however stupid they are!:bang: