►►►Tales from IronFreak and his shop shenanigans◄◄◄

[IronFreak]

hahaha, m42 probably has more balls then that 4-banger.

[Nick_S]

S50 swap the truck.

[unloadedak]

He's a GM boy. Ain't no converting this one.

[IronFreak]

There will be a conversion.....but it'll be another GM motor...

[kingston]

When does the truck get a cage?

[IronFreak]

When does the truck get a cage?

I have a few cars in front of the truck first hahaha :D

[IronFreak]

Teaser......



More to come next weekend..........

[IronFreak]

Jungle gym in the car!

Well I got to play in the garage all day Friday. Was able to get a large part of the cage wrapped up so I'm pretty happy. Hoping to have it finished next Saturday.

A big hand to Chuck and Adam for helping me out, wouldn't have gotten that far without them!



I move from a single stall garage to this.........and I still find myself complaining I don't have enough room....

I'll just post up a bunch of pictures of the progress.




These are final fitment of the main cage area before we dropped it through the floor.



it was not easy to weld inside this thing........I'm not exactly a small guy. notice the temp door bars, I'll do them last as I'll need to modify the tunnel for my transmission.



These areas were the worst. I thought I could get the cage low enough by just dropping the front.........which technically I did, next cage all 4 points are going through the floor.



I had to climb through the pop out window to get back there.......I might post the video, pretty amusing watching a 255lbs. guy shove himself in there.......





Thats all the pictures I have for now. I got all the outside areas welded and we got the cage pulled back up through the floor and in place. Next will be to get the interior welds done and box the front mounts up. Toss in a few rear laterals and X bars and folks, I think we have a cage! Just in time to push it out of the shop and back Unloadedak's ride in for his cage.

Stay tuned, more pictures this weekend.

[obrian]

Cage is lookin nice! Wate till you try and fit behind the harness bar for paint, that's lots of fun.

[jaywood]

What bender/tubing knotcher are you using? Looks great man!

[IronFreak]

What bender/tubing knotcher are you using? Looks great man!

I built the bender myself from plans I found on the interwebs.......right now I have a cheap HF notcher I got in a parts trade. I want to get a nicer one from tricktools but this will do for the time being.

picture of the bender

[jaywood]

picture of the bender

Wow, very nice. If you don't mind sharing those plans I'd love to see them! Bender looks great!

[FunfGan]

Looking very nice!

[ngampleh]

that was so awesome, man

[unloadedak]

too busy eating food all weekend to finish the rest of the cage.