Twin_Turbo

Holidays are good for something, finally had time to do some major work on my car...it had been sitting for way too long with me onoly doing little things and waiting for the weather to clear up (and thus " wasting" my time here :) )

I still had to fix the birdcage so I got cracking. I trimmed a replacement section from a donor car to fit mine. It was an earlier car (pre 75) and there were actually some very slight differences in the birdcage. The profile of the lower runner is a tad different but nothing some welding can't fix.

Here's the before:


section cut out:


and after new section is welded in and painted with POR (man, my hands are stained AGAIN, will I ever learn to use gloves [img]images/icon_smile_sad.gif[/img] )







Then I decided it was time to start welding in the gussets I had fabricated too so.....





close up:

stingraymaniac

nice! :thumbs:

74 vert

That looks professional :thumbs:

Jughead

Wow, great work. :yesnod:

Twin_Turbo

and some more progress. Reinstalled the firewall using sika tack adhesive:





Also did some welding of holes in the frame that are not needed and installed the corner bracing for the frame horns.





here's one small hole already welded up, smoothed and painted (por, but it's temporary untill I sandblast it again and have it powdercoated)

verskel

Outstanding ! :cheers: .....keep those pics coming ! :D

Twin_Turbo

can't even my own the pics, all I see is [img]"[/img&#93

NHvette

:thumbs:

It's great when you make enough progress to snap a few pics.
Get the fever !!!

Huh - theye were there when I posted.... now they are just empty tags. :confused:

.. .and now they are back again.
:seeya


[Modified by NHvette, 11:24 AM 4/12/2004]


[Modified by NHvette, 11:24 AM 4/12/2004]

turtlevette

did you take down the whole site with your pictures? :jester


that looks real solid. :smash:


[Modified by turtlevette, 11:29 AM 4/12/2004]

Twin_Turbo

the best is yet to come, I have plans for a full cage and the boxed front sections will be topped off with a thick plate that will support the front of the cage, then a support behind the a arm moutns triangulated into the birdcage and running into a cage inside the car. I may even chop off the spring pockets and notch the frame there so I can run coil overs that bolt to the engine suframe so I can use longer coil overs.....

74-Roadster

Nice!!!!!!!!!! :cool:

I'll be waiting to see your next step!!! You know I'm going steal most of your ideas! :lol:

yellow 72

Nice work indeed... :cheers:

78 Vette

Nice work :cheers:

SmokedTires

I'm bumping this cus I can't see the pics now & would like to find it again later ;)

**EDIT** I could see them after I bumped this topic :confused:

TT your work looks great !!! IMHO the welder has to be about the best tool out there (man when will I get one :cry ). Looks like you made some real progress :yesnod:

:cheers:


[Modified by SmokedTires, 7:05 PM 4/12/2004]

Eddie 70

TT, you do good work. Looks really nice. Almost looks like you should be ready to put the front end on sometime soon.

MN-Brent

Looks great. :cheers:

Cant wait to see more progress shots.

Brent...

Twin_Turbo

It looks deceiving but the whole thing is going apart again, I have to pull the body. It was mounted to properly jig the new section of birdcage, now that it's all welded up the boduy comes off again, some more welding will take place..the frame will be blasted and most likely powdercoated.

foundvettelifeisgood

Nice work. :cheers:

theandies

:thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:

HDIronman

looking really sharp....!!!! :cheers: