1Bad37: C5 meets '37 Chevy...

[DER E30]

Haha ok I'll be ready!

On a side note, I'm building a set of projector headlights for it that are euro smily inspired. Morimoto mini d2s projectors and the current headlights minus lots of material on the back pics maybe this weekend!

[DER E30]

So I did a thing.

This also happened.:rofl
Much shiny:rofl

[stanhayward]

Love it! I remember seeing another user, don't remember his name, but he used a smiley as the single headlight on an older motorbike that also looked killer.

[DER E30]

Yeah, I ended up ditching the idea of smily plates after I made a set, this just looked more badass without them. I love them, looks badass all black.

[DER E30]

And now I will blast with many unedited/blurry/crap on the lens and generally BS iPhone pics! Couldn't find the camera for the new ones and the "in progress" pics I almost always forget the camera and pull out the phone as its ALWAYS in my pocket pumping tunes into my earbuds...
Here's the sanding station! I spent too many hours sitting on that stupid yellow bucket!

Putting the mainshaft into the case on my official GM workstation!




This part is a pain to get right! THis is the actual shift gate/link where shifts happen. THe 5/6 and R forks are on their own linkage that is a pain to make interface with the 1/2/3/4's shift fork. You might pick up that I did the brass fork pads and Viper steel 3/4 fork...

At this point I forgot all about pics and was wrenching. If you ever rebuild one of these, to put the pressed on 5/6 gear back on the mainshaft, heat it up in your oven at 500 degrees and it will fall right on. If you ever take one of these apart you'll know which gear I mean, its a HUGE PITA to take off!!!
Trans back in and no leaks! I hate the smell of ATF in the morning

The seating arrangement in this aircraft, the plain black seats are the ones I've been using. My dad and I reupholstered them several years ago, they're a stock style replacement. I'm gonna have to replace them though as they hurt my tailbone after about an hour of driving...:waah: I hurt pretty bad after driving to the Goodguys show last year, and that's ~1.5-2 hrs away...:waah: I'm leaning toward doing them in a chocolate brown color rather like a king ranch ford truck... Probably stitched somewhat like the E30 seat leaning on the wall next to the truck seat. And no, that seat won't work, trust me, I tried to make it work... Its too wide and stuff...

This is the trans as it sits currently, the diff cover is freshly polished, I could polish it for months but this is close enough I think...

What the shop situation looks like now...
THe diff as it sits about 10 mins ago NOT looking forward to polishing that. Thoughts on painting the center part gold and polishing both of the side covers??

[semaj4712]

This is a killer project, right up my alley

Love it! I remember seeing another user, don't remember his name, but he used a smiley as the single headlight on an older motorbike that also looked killer.

That would be ctnewman on his CB Motorcycle

[DER E30]

This is a killer project, right up my alley

Thanks mang!

THoughts on these choices?

1. Stewart Warner "wings"?

2. Then there's this... I'm starting to like this a lot...

1 is more classic and stuff. A pain BC I can't fit them all in the spot for them in the dash, so several end up somewhere else...:(

2 is more modern and looks awesome. A clean package and install, they all fit behind the steering wheel where they should... I think I'm leaning this way now.

I've been sort of on the fence for a while now on what to do for gauges. The time is nigh for a decision. I WANT TO BE DONE SOON!

[iansane]

Definitely 2. If those have all the information you need then a whole cluster makes packaging super easy.

[DER E30]

I kinda forgot about taking pics, so this is the beginning. You didn't miss much, I spent probably an hour thinking about making this cut and welds

I cut out the entire stock gauge mounting area as one piece. That seemed the most logical and straightforward solution.

What am I cutting the dash for? This Dakota Digital VHX, the cluster wil glow orange/red with white needles at night.





View from the driver's seat. The protective plastic is still on the gauges, that's why they look weird.
Then I put some body filler on...

[DER E30]

This is so badass.... Im going to be picking your brain about the frame.

Got some pics of the frame for you Simon!

Didn't get the camera out in the shop till after I'd pulled the nose and spilled the entire contents of the rad on the ground minus 1 gallon... THe petcock valve dumps on the frame so it goes everywhere and is a flipping mess, need to fix that...
IMG_7822m by Der E30, on Flickr

IMG_7825m by Der E30, on Flickr

Suspension shot! Love the heim ends on the steering. Makes it super direct!
IMG_7828m by Der E30, on Flickr
Snaking the steering around the manifold was a pain...
IMG_7835m by Der E30, on Flickr
Pulling the cab with handy dandy hoist.
IMG_7839m by Der E30, on Flickr
IMG_7842m by Der E30, on Flickr
No cab now!IMG_7843m by Der E30, on Flickr
Dat LSIMG_7844 by Der E30, on Flickr
IMG_7846m by Der E30, on Flickr
IMG_7849m by Der E30, on Flickr
IMG_7850m by Der E30, on FlickrIMG_7845m by Der E30, on Flickr

[stanhayward]

Best thread update ever, I'm completely blown away. You have some mad frame fabrication skills man!

IMG_7822m by Der E30, on Flickr

Oh, and this photo made my pants move ;D

[DER E30]

Best thread update ever, I'm completely blown away. You have some mad frame fabrication skills man!

Thanks!

So I bought a thing and cut a big hole to fit it... But first, this is what I started with.

New toy that doesn't fit that well under the dash with that big bump in the firewall. I'll move it down to fix this small problem, this will also look better with the engine there also...


Mark a line with chalk-welder's pen thing

Made some noise!

Idea of where I'm going with this!


Didn't have a piece of steel big enough to patch the hole, so this is the end for today...

Until another day! Or tonight...

[DER E30]

So school's out yesterday, time to get back to work!
I'm gonna delete all of the weird lines in the frame from the welds that are from when the tube is made, like on this rail.


Pulled the trans again as it was in the way.

No, I'm not done with the filler anywhere here, but aI started pulling the fuel tank so I could get to the bars under the back of the torque tube.

Dragged the pallet jack out from behind the shop and put the cab on a pallet and moved it out of the way for something you might guess...


Didn't drop anything expensive! The reason its so dark is that I was just turning off the lights, as it was like 1:20 am.


Planning on respraying the frame this week hopefully, going for a slightly darker red.

[DER E30]

Little update! I made these gussets because I felt like it needed them, probably pointless but whatever.

#cambergang

No, it doesn't really go that far, note the lugnuts on the ground...
Took off the back wheels

This happened.


SOme pics of the frame.




Gonna be cleaning all this stuff up, cause its nasty.

[DER E30]

I washed the rear arms and suspernsion, as well as took apart the coils for cleaning, then reassembled them without one of the collars... So the coils are ~10mm shorter and the truck should theoretically tuck wheel in the back just a little.

The frame under the bed is getting closer to primer. No, that's before I started sanding most of that.

Little brace here.