Transcona, the Dirty Old Cougar

[Kmelander]

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[egoman]

Originally Posted by Kmelander

Nice work and tuned in, but I want to know where that thing is right now. Dammit I’m not a patient man and something about knowing this car is further along than what you are showing is just eating at me!

Anyone from that area see this thing on the streets? Probably looks something like this:




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It has been a roller but its not quite that far along. Although that car and the Whistler one are motivation for sure.

[egoman]

The internet is a beautiful thing. I can find almost anything.
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[egoman]

While there is a lot to see here there isn’t much to explain. BUT I can get long winded anyways LOL.
You should be able to see how I am using the stock spindles cut down as a bracket and spacer to allow them to be used on the floater.
I love the look of the Corvette calipers and I will make no effort to hide that on my Mercury.
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[egoman]

I manage to score a piece of 2024 t351 billet for a damn good price. 1-1/2 x6 and 12 feet long for 50 dollars, Oh and I GOT 2! This stuff drills like steel though, it’s tough! Thank you Air Canada for deleting old stock.
If those cuts look crooked, it’s not your eyes. A dull blade in the band saw resulted in that. We are cutting the spindles down and making the rocker for the watts linkage. I just printed out my drawing and taped it to the block. Cut and sand, cut and sand.
The larger squares that I cut out will be explained later. Some may figure this out, and well ……… some may not? I mean they have lines on them how hard could it be?
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[egoman]

There are some more pics here.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1615264389

[egoman]

I told you a while ago that I was going to use my methods of using hole saws for creating holders and jigs. This stuff is for welding the axle tubes to the housing. There were about ten thousand measurements taken at this point and I hoped that was enough to get it close to right. The welds you see on the jig were placed there to get the jig to pull to straight. 1 super-hot weld and some water and the jig pulls back to straight. The 3 inch DOM is straight so let’s align the jig to that right?
While you don’t see it in these pics I actually screwed this up the first time. Being steel it’s easy to fix though! That drawing didn’t allow for enough room for the reclaimed center section. I also built the whole rear end as a long piece on the DOM first so I could get the outside of sidewall to outside of sidewall correctly positioned. Not a good place to guess and the reason that a few posts ago I had the 69-1/2 measurement on the tape measure posted.
Please notice that the brake brackets are not mounted yet.
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[egoman]

I seem to maybe add too many pictures but I just don't want to leave anything out. I promised a lot of pictures and I hope that everyone has a story behind it. There was a ton of agony related to cutting the rear end tubes so the width would be right on! It turned out within a few fractions of an inch. Tire sidewalls are a very loose measurement in the first place, LOL.
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[Kmelander]

That bench top vise is definitely getting a workout! Impressive. I like the controlled distortion method to get to where you need to be with alignment too!


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[egoman]

Originally Posted by Kmelander

That bench top vise is definitely getting a workout! Impressive. I like the controlled distortion method to get to where you need to be with alignment too!


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Hey I am a pipefitter its what I do LOL!