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Cars looking good just make sure you get back, we want more pics! Keep your head down and your power dry!

Originally Posted by brickman

Cars looking good just make sure you get back, we want more pics! Keep your head down and your power dry!

Thanks! I run a shop that repairs and exchanges weapons, so i have about 300+ functional guns in my posession at all times, and some bullets... I don't ever leave base except to go home either, so i am pretty safe. As for pictures, dad is doing a few things here and there on the car while i am gone, and supposed to be sending pictures, so i may have some soon. When i work on it i take pictures of everything i do, when i get back home i will probably start a website somewhere to document the whole thing, i have like 400 pictures so far, too many to post here!

If you have any requests of what you want to see that is done so far i can post those though. I have body work, stripping it to the frame, boxing the frame, narrowing the frame, engine mount fabrication, rear end housing narrowing, rear suspension mounting, cross memeber and x-member fabrication, and probably a few others. let me know and I will post them!

Heck post 'em all, I want to see 'em.

Yea post them bad boys we want to see them.

Originally Posted by RobfromTexas

Yea post them bad boys we want to see them.

check the link, added more pics. http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44828

How to turn a late model GM tilt column into an early style.

So I was bored today & figured I would try & do something on the bus that wouldn't cost me anything but time.
Sorry I didn't take many pics but I'm sure you'll get the idea.

Being a cheap SOB, Large Marge has been built on such a tight shoe string budget that it even amazes me & I wouldn't believe unless I was there & I was .
95% of everything used on the truck was salvaged from other cars/trucks I have gotten over the years along w/some free stuff from friends. So today I decided to modify some of that FREE stuff I have used on the bus.

I already had mounted the column in Large Marge which is a 1994 Buick Park Ave FWD steering column that uses a cable to shift the transmission. The column was free so I used it BUT I hate that crap that hangs off the side of it inside that little square box.
So off it comes..



In this picture I have stripped the column of the stock collar along w/the ignition tumblers, turn/bright lite switch & bright lite switch rod.
The only thing I saved was the tension spring, lock plate & lock ring.


Basically I did what it shows to take it apart is shown on THIS webpage down to THIS picture.

Since I didn't want to have to buy another column or collar, remember I'm a cheap SOB, I decided to take apart a Caddy tilt/telescoping column I have had for 6-7yrs from a parts car for the collar(you have to use a tilt/telescoping column collar). Save the screws for the replacement collar you are using along w/the ignition tumblers, canceling cam/horn circuit, turn signal/hazzard switch & screws.
Here's the collar marked to be cut(removing 3/4") to the same height of the stock 94 Buick column.


After it lost 3/4" of height and before it is cleaned up w/the stock collar. .
Yessss they are about the same size, it's just a crappy picture.


Here it is reassembled using the modified Cadillac collar along w/the ignition tumblers, turn signal/hazzard switch & screws from it.


Hell even the gap looks good.


I might remove the ignition tumblers down the road but for right now I'm done.
So that's what I did on this boring semi-rainy day while trying to kill some time, it was FREE and i got rid of that *%@#?: little square box on the side of the column that I hate..joe

Looks a whole bunch better Joe!! Very good idea!

Originally Posted by pro70z28

Thanks Dave, Kurt. It's at 1455 as it sits, but there's a lot O' missing parts yet. I'm roughly guessing somewhere in the low 3g's, but that's just a guess. At one time I piled all the available parts in and on top of the car, figured in the 68 lbs. for the fiberglass front end and myself and came up will 2200 lbs.
That was bare iron block & heads, and
still no engine internals, radiator, drive shaft, tin work, all fluids or pro charger and a list of other misc items. I don't see any way possible to keep it under 3,000. Just have to crank up the boost to compensate I guess.

Man that Camaro is awesome. You do some nice work

Thanks Pro.

I don't know if I posted this anywhere. When you get old you forget stuff.
I've been building a corner rounder for the sign shop mostly because I'm tired of cutting them by hand. this is what I came up with.....

I used a porta power ram and bought the die. it took about 6-7 pumps to cut a corner with a porta power foot pump. Then I had to turn the release valve. I had to come with something faster. . First I thought of using a clutch master cylinder. But, when I looked at the capacity it looked like that wasn't gonna' work. Then I found a master cylinder (not sure what it fits. Ol' Chevy truck maybe?. I teed both lines together to get the flow I needed & built a frame & linkage out of some of the scrap in that 5 gal. bucket that I just knew I'd use some day. All that's left is to build a shroud for the pump assembly so I don't damage it throwin' stuff under the bench.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpUO2KGQdGQ

Made a catch can for the chips, so I don't get in trouble when they stick to my shoes and I bring them in the house.






It's not fast, fast but it works and it's hands free.

Very cool/ Nice video. Looks to work very well. Gotta love it when you can use stuff that's just lying around!

Originally Posted by pro70z28

Thanks Pro.

I don't know if I posted this anywhere. When you get old you forget stuff.
I've been building a corner rounder for the sign shop mostly because I'm tired of cutting them by hand. this is what I came up with.....

I used a porta power ram and bought the die. it took about 6-7 pumps to cut a corner with a porta power foot pump. Then I had to turn the release valve. I had to come with something faster. . First I thought of using a clutch master cylinder. But, when I looked at the capacity it looked like that wasn't gonna' work. Then I found a master cylinder (not sure what it fits. Ol' Chevy truck maybe?. I teed both lines together to get the flow I needed & built a frame & linkage out of some of the scrap in that 5 gal. bucket that I just knew I'd use some day. All that's left is to build a shroud for the pump assembly so I don't damage it throwin' stuff under the bench.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpUO2KGQdGQ

Made a catch can for the chips, so I don't get in trouble when they stick to my shoes and I bring them in the house.






It's not fast, fast but it works and it's hands free.

I cant' see the video... what do you mean by "corner rounder"?

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Originally Posted by toofast_28

I cant' see the video... what do you mean by "corner rounder"?

Toofast, I'll be using it to round the corners on aluminum signs.

Originally Posted by stovens

Very cool/ Nice video. Looks to work very well. Gotta love it when you can use stuff that's just lying around!

Thanks Steve. I'm lookin' forward to NOT having to cut the corners by hand anymore.

Kewl deal Pro!! No more using the cutouts from a hole saw to mark out the radius!!!!