Recent content by frijolee

Good eye. 30x45'

Getting settled into the new place... A bit more space to work on the projects these days. Scored a lift from a local mechanic who was closing... Still a ways to go until I'm back to wrenching but there's at least light at the end of the tunnel. Just thought I'd stop by to say...

Pretty much. It's been a rental home for this past year and missed having our own place badly.

Decided I was driving myself crazy over the brakes so I should switch gears and try to knock out another project scattered all over the garage: headers. I came back from a Ronin header session with quite a bit of scrap from setting up the madrel bender. I was hoping I had enough to make...

Actually no, I'm familiar with the 90 degree angle boosters (also a packaging challenge) but haven't seen these before. How do they work?

After looking at this for a while I decided I was far enough along that I should stay the course and get the booster mocked in all the way. It's really the only way I can know how much space I have and need. I think I'm going to be about an inch shy of where I want to be but maybe I can find...

In the fine print...

The CAD study was my pause point as the Cruiser moved 2,500 miles—plus an ocean—with cardboard taped to the firewall. Once we were settled in, I started picking away at the projects I could get too without fully unpacking the rig. It still had doors, hatch, and a bunch of boxes stored...

New topic, starting out with some out of date pics. As you probably don’t remember back in January 2018 I was debating hard over pedals and decided to buy some s2000 units that looked promising. I’d like to use a Subaru Brake booster because it’s a matched set to a larger MC that looks...

So what's the big deal says the voice in my head? You knew the law and you got ticketed... You knew what you were doing... Well yes and no. I knew the law, I just thought it was a formality and much like CA no one really cared. Given some of the vehicles I see around town this seemed like a...

Not shown: undercoating the bottom sides. Rust-Oleum engine enamel semi flat black on the uppers. (I finally standardized my touch up paint.) Results: Not bad if I do say so myself. All in I have something like 105 hours work into these. My advise: Rocking sans flares...

Random shout out to my old college roommate and awesome guitarist Jack Roan. Jack was the one who taught me how to wind extension cords over-hand/under-hand. Given how many times I had to roll my welding cart back and forth that was pretty handy. Just with the tack welding the skins on...

By the way, the metal circ saws just roughed out the shapes. Once they were in strips I could do the fine cutting on my bad saw and finally shave to fit (a bunch with sanders and files). I think I have 300+ test fits into this project. Between tube and skins, 75 test fits per corner is...

Each tube ended up having a 5th bend to hit the frame where I need to hit it. Half bevel groove on these showing the full thickness bevel (and damn near CJP on the splice inboard which is cool). I tacked these on the rig (one evening with minimal wind) then burned in the plates on the...

SuperBuick, not sure I follow that. What are you suggesting? I was victorious, but advice toward future efforts is appreciated. -------------------- I'm taking my kids to school every day so still driving the Jeep. Figure my ticket should give me a few weeks of immunity. Nope, I get...