The custom fabrication thread! (Post pics of stuff you have made)
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that looks sweet, I was thinking something just like that but wasnt sure. Were those weld on bungs or just a threaded fitting cleaned and welded on once threaded in? Also, is that a mount for dedicated coils? So clean!
One more question, how did you get all the steel pressed in there on the hotside, did you just drill it out or somehow pull it out?
One more question, how did you get all the steel pressed in there on the hotside, did you just drill it out or somehow pull it out?
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Been chipping away at the front end. Cut forward of the strut towers to transition to round tube, and laid the radiator forward more to give me the clearance to duct out the hood.
Had to reclock the inlet on the radiator to work with the water pump and weld some mounting tabs to it, but no real drama. The new front end is fiberglass, so that bar and two mounts hanging under the frame rails are part of the front end mounting kit from S&W. The whole front end can just slide into the receiver mounts, and then dzus around the fenders for easy removal.
I picked up a few clamshell mounts from A&A that I will eventually weld the splitter brackets to. I'm going to attempt to support the splitter far enough forward this time that I won't need the cable supports. Basically, there will be four brackets that clamp around the lower frame rail, and each bracket will have some round tube struts to support the splitter.
Old fenders are just dangling there so I can ballpark some dimensions while the nose is being made. I'm estimating about 100 lbs of weight off the stock front end with the new setup, maybe more. The core support area was surprisingly heavy, as was the plastic nose itself, headlights/motor assembly, etc. Will lose about 15 pounds or so from the hood as well.
Had to reclock the inlet on the radiator to work with the water pump and weld some mounting tabs to it, but no real drama. The new front end is fiberglass, so that bar and two mounts hanging under the frame rails are part of the front end mounting kit from S&W. The whole front end can just slide into the receiver mounts, and then dzus around the fenders for easy removal.
I picked up a few clamshell mounts from A&A that I will eventually weld the splitter brackets to. I'm going to attempt to support the splitter far enough forward this time that I won't need the cable supports. Basically, there will be four brackets that clamp around the lower frame rail, and each bracket will have some round tube struts to support the splitter.
Old fenders are just dangling there so I can ballpark some dimensions while the nose is being made. I'm estimating about 100 lbs of weight off the stock front end with the new setup, maybe more. The core support area was surprisingly heavy, as was the plastic nose itself, headlights/motor assembly, etc. Will lose about 15 pounds or so from the hood as well.
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I just noticed. In my pictures above, the welds show a perfect example of welding a 304 flange to 316 pipe. That's why the welds were getting gray, while down around the flange they had nicer color to them.