Shandangles Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 evidently the thing to do once you put up a build thread is put up a yarn thread..... YARN AWAY!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyGal Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 What colour are you going to paint it piner? A shade of brown or cream I hope! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandangles Posted December 8, 2011 Author Share Posted December 8, 2011 either super bright yellow or chocolate brown i think, prob same dark grey as jacksons s14 the inside Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingsfree Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Almost got another car gone, so will be heaps of room for activities! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandangles Posted December 12, 2011 Author Share Posted December 12, 2011 sicko will be round after taiffic dies tonight!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaN Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Dude, seam welding is usually done with one inch beads then a 1.5 inch gap, then a one inch bead. Most of that you've got there looks like tack welds which dont really offer the strength that you'd get from seam welds. Tack welds will just sheer off under load and crack in half, that can never happen with a 1 inch bead. I've seam welded a number of cars, we always do them like that. Also, When seam welding them we usually brace the strut towers with cage tube to the lower chassis rail (by cutting a 1.5 inch be of tube, welding that up right to the rail and notching the one from the strut tower forward to that), and back to the firewall, using a 150mm square 3mm mild steel plate as a base for that tube and anywhere else a tube gets attached to the car. We weld right the way around it the tube, and the plates. When you weld the plates to the car, strike your arc up on the plate, and move it to the surrounding shell then weld slightly out of the v, this way you melt the plate nicely at it's edge, but dont melt hole though the cars f/wall. - arm length gloves are pretty cheap mate (lol I have so many burn marks now, some of them take months to heal properly) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingsfree Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 The strut towers are getting tied into the cage, so that will stiffen it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandangles Posted December 15, 2011 Author Share Posted December 15, 2011 meh, its a 82 corolla, it had about 6 spot welds and urethane holding it together before hand so anything is begonna an improvement. The welder was set to like 11 million so its all got good penetration, and as dan said the cage will be tied into the front struts, shell be right......hopefully =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaN Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 all good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nothingsfree Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Isnt that the drivers side bro? haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest d1 mule Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Isnt that the drivers side bro? haha yes, indeed it is.10 points to you Mr Yeoman lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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