Thread: My 15 week rat rod build or bust.....

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Originally Posted by Last-Call

I am glad you are having a good time watching the build.

Im loving watching this build!!!! Thanks for taking the time to take so many pics and post everything up. You cant see and or get qaccesss to builds so detailed like this anywhere! the car magazines should take a lesson from you on this! They dont even come close to the job you have done!

Question: I know its cheating but would it have been cheaper to just purchase black wall BP's and then put on some Port O walls?

Yeah it would have been less money, I have set of port o walls and I do not like them. The wheel and tire on a car will make or break it. Plus the ports are only 2 inch.

On with the pics!

Me and Donny kicked ass all day today. The body is back togather and all the stich welding is done. The foor is as far as we can go right now. We took the body back off for final welding of everything, making brake lines and pipes, and fitting under car mufflers. We have a neat little trick for the tail pipes you will have to wait and see. Here comes 19 pics for ya!!

Donny was working on the final welding on the frame. You see, we are not going to have a air tank for the rear bags, so we thought it would be cool to use the frame....Yeah I said the frame, we figured out that the 2x4 box tube is the same as a 5 gal air tank. So we are going to weld the fittings on the rail and let it sit for 24 hours and see if we have any pressure drop. But we will not, Donny is the king of welding. He started bending the radious rods for the front end. They are going to look killer.

PICS!!!

Man oh man, I hope everyone got their emails back. Did you guys see that HAMB thead with the teacher? Poor guy got ripped down over liking my car?

Well to hell with all of them! So on to the stuff from today. We pulled apart the rear end to see what the brakes looked like. Yep...all junk. So we bought all new parts, a few bucks. But it will stop and safty has no price limit on this car. Donny fabed up the rad rods in like 2 hours...this guy is champ. Oh yeah, dig the welding job on the frame rails....

That is some very nice fabrication and welding work on the car!!! Looks like you have the right man doing the work with you!!!!

Looks like a fun little car. Using the frame for onboard air is a trick I learned 4 wheeling. I used a air pump out of a 99 Jeep Grand Cherokee that I hard wired in with a simple on/off switch and pumped to a boxed frame. It had an inboard gauge that I used to keep an eye on the amount of air pressure when needed. It was great for airing up tires after a day of 4 wheeling.

Yeah the frame tank is a old 4x4 trick. We were thinking of using an air tank, but why when we have that nice big frame. There are no plans for a compresor, we will just fill up the frame and call it good. After all the bags are for the ride, and they were cheap. It's made to sit level with air in the bags. When they are flat the car will sit too low in the rear.

Zach