2012 Ridler Winner Build up at Torq'd Design Lab

[Al Moreno]

What agreat way to break into the scene by building a Ridler winner! Matt Congrats on all the accolades! I'm blown away with the amount of talent at such a young ages, your Dad must be proud!

By the way, we really enjoy build pictures around here. Sometimes just as much if not more than just seeing the end result. So keep them coming.

[E.rodz]

nice car and my hats off to you guys for putting that many hrs. into any project is admiral, the car is very inspirational! Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work!

[HWY Nova]

How are you associated with Greening Auto Company?

Thanks for sharing the pics.


--Eric

[Torq'd Design Lab]

Thank you all so much! This was actually my second complete build, and my brothers first complete build. My first build was a '55 Ford F100 that was a Goodguys Truck of the Year Finalist in 2008. He was 19 and I was 23 when we started to build the Thunderbird and he actually designed every single aspect of the car and did renderings of every component as well as the entire car. I am trying to upload a few build-up pics of the car every day during this week and next. We have more projects in the shop and I will be taking and sharing those build-up pictures in different threads as the cars and trucks progress as well.

The car was built from the chassis up in our shop and went to the Greenings as a full rolling chassis car with the majority of the metal modifications on the exterior completed, the full underside of the car skinned smooth, the majority of the engine compartment completed, the exhaust, dash and also other metal modifications completed. We worked with Greening Auto Company and enlisted them to do the bodywork, paint, and machining. We are currently expanding to be able to complete all of these tasks in our own shop now. It was defiantly a great team effort by all!

[Vince@Meanstreets]

great work. looking forward to more pictures.

[Torq'd Design Lab]

More exhaust fab pics -







This is before we decided that the build was more suited for coil-overs





One of the intercooler boxes for routing the air directly into the intercoolers


Starting the engine compartment construction


sheetmetal airbox with built in compartment for the air filter

[sds machining]

Nice job!!!.. whats next on the list for you guys? or is it a secret?

[WSSix]

Holy crap! I had no idea you guys were so relatively new to the scene. We need back ground info on you and your brother. How did you guys get into building cars at this level? How in the world did you find someone willing to trust you with this level of a build? Was competing for Riddler the initial goal? Yeah, I know I'm prying and if you don't want to answer, that's cool. I just think it could be inspirational for people to know your background.

Keep up the good work and good luck with the business too.

[kennyd]

Originally Posted by Torq'd Design Lab

Thank you all so much! This was actually my second complete build, and my brothers first complete build. My first build was a '55 Ford F100 that was a Goodguys Truck of the Year Finalist in 2008. He was 19 and I was 23 when we started to build the Thunderbird and he actually designed every single aspect of the car and did renderings of every component as well as the entire car. I am trying to upload a few build-up pics of the car every day during this week and next. We have more projects in the shop and I will be taking and sharing those build-up pictures in different threads as the cars and trucks progress as well.

The car was built from the chassis up in our shop and went to the Greenings as a full rolling chassis car with the majority of the metal modifications on the exterior completed, the full underside of the car skinned smooth, the majority of the engine compartment completed, the exhaust, dash and also other metal modifications completed. We worked with Greening Auto Company and enlisted them to do the bodywork, paint, and machining. We are currently expanding to be able to complete all of these tasks in our own shop now. It was defiantly a great team effort by all!

i thought it was started and fabbed at hills hotrods ?

[Royalworks]

Who else on here were building Riddler cars when they were 19-23?.....Yeah. I think you guys might be the only ones I have ever heard of. Not just working on them but designing and then finishing them yourself is one heck of an undertaking. Awesome. Much respect.