Some Pics From Tonight

[baxter650]

finished painting the frame, dissasembled, sandblasted and painted front spring packs.

 

[cody c]

that looks sweet! what type of paint did you paint the front springs with?

 

[baxter650]

Every thing is painted with "Chassis Saver" paint, satin black.

 

[baxter650]

Got my 30 spline super set the other day, some very nice stuff. Also started to make a turbo manifold, after about four hrs this is what i have so far.

 

[rover67]

nice flange, look forward to seeing the progress!

 

[Nemesis Gnat]

daaaaang

 

[Kristoffer]

I would keep the Holset HX35 turbo. We mainly use Holset HX30 and Holset HX35 on out builds, and they work REALLY great for offroad

 

[lowtideride]

Looks freaking awesome man. Save your money on the polys for right now, I am starting to doubt they are any stronger than stockers. Not really worth the money.

 

[baxter650]

I am thinking the same thing, if i do go with the Poly's i am looking at the full floater axles. I don't know if they taper at the spline end like the semi's, i'm betting if the shaft is the same size over it's full length it will be much stronger. I know it has to carry the full load of the truck so the semi floater has to be that way but the full floater doesn't.

 

[mminter1973]

Are you going to run drive flanges or hubs? I saw parts to both in your pic above.

 

[baxter650]

The flanges are actually for the rear of my mini truck (9" third /Toyota hubs & disk brakes/ strange axles) but i was thinking about making a full floater rear using the same flanges and a custom length set of Long's 30 spline axles but he doesn't do custom lenghts.

 

[baxter650]

Been bead blasting engine parts to prep for coating and managed to pick up a few more parts to complete the front diff. I have decided to pull the engine down and give it the once over before it goes in the frame

 

[baxter650]

Oh and these things too.
Oil pan has to have an oil return line from the turbo welded in then it goes for coating.

 

[cruiserpants]

Damn nice work !

 

[baxter650]

Progress has been slow but i did get the front diff together, one or two things need to be tweeked but it went together rather well.

 

[pudge]

nothing new?? come on, we're nearing the end of August....sheesh

 

[baxter650]

Two weeks in England and a few more back east = no money for truck. So if you are giving money away i,m accepting.

 

[Randy88FJ62]

I love when I see clean frames and springs. Nice attention to detail. Wish I had a shop like that to work in. I need to get a different job...

 

[baxter650]

Haven't done much at all in the past months, kind of lost motivation, so i mounted up a few of my tires and put em on. Wanted to get an idea what this thing is going to look like so i put on the rad support and one of the fenders.

 

[D'Animal]

It going to be a shame to hide all the work that went into the engine, frame and running gears with the body.