Builds Project Toy-Audi

[BiffS]

That is some awsome bending on your front fenders.

Thanks,

wait til they're done! The front halo is intended to tie into the top bend just to the side of the head light. that'll prevent the rounded corners by the fender corner. the tube inner will also tie in at that point giving me some meat for the sheet metal.

 

[BiffS]

More download bung!

Well after a long week with the new daughter not sleeping much, i've finally got some time out in the shop. Latest photos as of tonight. I figure that manual bending with a JD2 is working out for me. Burn off some of the extra weight on me to add it back on the truck. Should work out to be about even!

inner and outer of the fender combined now and halo upper bent and placed for fitment. I think that i want it slightly wider than it is now.

and a quick and nasty doodle with Paint to give the idea of what's the final out come.

 

[88chevota]

Very cool!! I like it! Way to think outside the box!!

 

[BiffS]

Well it's been a long time since i've updated this thread, but i've been burning the candle on both ends and down the middle too with other things.

Quick update, looks like i'll be able to get in the shop today. . .

I went down the path of making 90 degree bell cranks for the rears to keep the shocks from coming up thru the floor. went so far as making the bells, made frame attachments, got the DOM for the links QA1 rod ends. etc. was ready to hard weld it all in then . . . Got an email back from Fox that i sent months ago, and resent the week before: the 2.5 Airshox MUST be run as vertically as possible.

Soooo. . . Scrapped all the bell crank stuff, said good bye to 2 weeks of hard fab work and punched holes in the tub. The good part is that they'll only need to be 6" into the tub, and some 3" dia . tail light rubber surrounds will seal the gap. Unlike those of you in the southern states, we get a lot of rain, and I for one don't like getting the wet stripe up my back when driving the highway.

currently, i've made a front halo (not depicted in these photos) and arranged the mounting points through the tub. Cage will be tied in to the frame through the body, and also through the firewall to the front shock hoops, and finally triangulated through to the engine mounts and front link mounts. All this is designed to limit frame stresses, as mine appears to be wearing a little worse that i had hoped.

The interior cage is intended to work with both hard and soft tops so it's been bent around that. TO further complete the bastardization, i'm putting in a Heep sound bar over the front seats.

These photos show a bit how the front tube fenders look before being skinned.

 

[BiffS]

working on the front halo now. it's going to get 3 points of triangulation, and also passed through the firewall at the A-pillar hoop to tie in the front frame.

 

[NW-sickboy]

Soooo. . . Scrapped all the bell crank stuff, said good bye to 2 weeks of hard fab work and punched holes in the tub. The good part is that they'll only need to be 6" into the tub, and some 3" dia . tail light rubber surrounds will seal the gap. Unlike those of you in the southern states, we get a lot of rain, and I for one don't like getting the wet stripe up my back when driving the highway.

I used neoprene to go around my 7100's that mounted in the cab of my 80 series. Worked great. I tried using rubber from a mud flap I got an air tight seal with neoprene.

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