67 c10 project

[badmatt]

what wheels are those?

by the way looks farking awesome.

[abadsvt]

Originally Posted by badmatt

what wheels are those?

by the way looks farking awesome.

They wheels are Foose Nitrious. They stopped making them with grey centers so i bought a set of chrome ones and then had the centers powdercoated with a custom charcole grey we mixed together.

Thanks for the complements!

[abadsvt]

FINALLY PROGRESS!!!!!! I got my gas tank bent, welded and installed. Well almost I still have to weld on the top piece but i have to wait for parts to finish it completely. I went a little different on the install. Instead of just bending some alluminum and making an "L" bracket i decided to take 1 3/8 solid round steel, alluminum and make my mounting pieces from that. The steel piece is welded to the frame and then the alluminum piece on the end is welded to the tank. It has been tapped and helicoil's were installed to give a little extra strength but I didn't drill all the way through. So it is still sealed from the inside of the tank. I put nylon washers inbetween because after everything is powdercoated I didn't want to chip anything getting it installed and since i machined some spacers it makes it really easy to install. Let me know what you think. I wanted to be different but still have it clean looking.

Anyways heres the pics

[abadsvt]

A few more pics

[abadsvt]

Here is some pics of my tranny mount that i made.

[abadsvt]

These last few pics for now are just other misc parts i got in. I am hoping to start building the headers today.

[badmatt]

Looks awesome Josh!

[byndbad914]

Originally Posted by abadsvt

looks good from a fab perspective! I would only raise concern that you will fatigue fail at minimum if not stress fail the thin aluminum wall around the two rear-most bolts. The front bolts essentially act as an axial pivot point, which means all the weight of the fuel and external loading (like hitting a bump in the road inducing G loads on the fuel and tank) will have to be reacted through the two rear bolts. That loading *might* cause the aluminum to want to crack/break in the heat affected zone around that bung (I say *might* because you might be fine - I didn't do any math but just visually that is not the best idea)

FWIW - you can always simply try it and periodically keep an eye on the bungs and make sure you don't see cracking or leaking around them. But you will be surprised what kind of loads you can induce into a full fuel tank and I (honestly) have seen more than a few failed mounting schemes, but I have also been around a lot of racing which induces G-loading on a regular basis v. a cruiser like you are building. Typically you will see people build and weld in a very solid frame to drop it onto and then metal strap it into place.

[abadsvt]

Hey Tim! Thanks for giving me your opinion. I really do appreciate it! I thought about what you just described but didn't think it would be an issue. I think i might take another look at it just to be sure cause i can always add another mounting point. Just trying to keep it simple and clean.

Thanks everyone else for the complements!

[srh3trinity]

Nice build, this is my favorite body style Chevy truck. Nice X-15 in the background.