The Willomet Charger - Lateral-g Forums

**waynieZ** · #1 07-13-2018, 04:29 PM

Awesome job!

**1970RT** · #2 07-14-2018, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by waynieZ

Awesome job!

Thanks! Learning a lot as I go.

David

**1970RT** · #3 07-15-2018, 07:27 AM

I'm not afraid to change a design when it isn't working. There was a part of the interior and inner frame where they overlapped and created a 1/4" thick segment of rail. While I acknowledge my offroad fabrication past, this isn't a stunt car and doesn't need 1/4" rails. I segmented the two plates and replanned my weld steps, and added about 1.5 lbs of lightness to this little bit of of the project.

Rev1 inner frame plates tacked and cleco'd. I'm building the top and lower plates today and this week.

David

**WSSix** · #4 07-16-2018, 04:39 PM

Looks good, David. Keep up the quality work!

**1970RT** · #5 07-16-2018, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by WSSix

Looks good, David. Keep up the quality work!

Thanks! Fine fitting the rails and top plates is a slow process, but that’s the next milestone.

David

**1970RT** · #6 07-17-2018, 06:39 AM

Fine fitting the top plates, which consumes a crapload of time to get the open corner welds set just right.

On the plus side, I'm finally getting a feel for welding these original 14ga rails. It's been challenging finding the right setting without bringing up the contaminants on the inside of the rail where there's still some old corrosion and (now) Eastwood primer. I broke the process into two, and have used it successfully several times now.

First pass with .045 wire.

Cover pass with 1/16

More to come. It should only get up to 105 today.

David