Looking good kid. Heard jeremy and some of my friends went down to see the progress, don't know where I was cause I def would have come down. Your lucky you got a garage, as we speak now my trucks got no front end and Im working out side and I need to get it done asap cause s10's don't like snow lol


Alex

 

just wanted to drop in and say "keep up the good work"! everything looks fantastic, I'll be checking in to see your progress

 

thanks man, yea its quite the project
ofcourse, but Ill keep on truckin' cant wait to drive this thing, you guys will **** when you see the bodywork going into the front end alone.
yep I was there, not as long back then haha
Yea they did, and I heard all about the driveway haha, Jeremy think both of us are soft! haha

thanks man, I love your thread too, I just actually posted a question, check it out Im curious thanks man for the kind words!

 

worked on it some tonight, didn't take many pictures I was all alone in the shop all night so I just stayed working got a good amount done, pictures dont really show it though. More tomorrow.


cut some pipe for the bed mount holes before boxing it in


Welded in the circle filler plates from the back before the boxing goes on.

Nice heavy duty 3/16" cross member to keep this frame nice and stiff



Boxed up with 1/8" plate like the rest of the frame. On this part of the frame I had to bend a L-piece since the top part of the frame is not as wide as the bottom, if I thought ahead when i did my notch I could've cut and made it uniform, o well.

What I plan to do here is trim the frame back except the bed mount and a small angle to give the bed mount a little support even though the bed isn't going to strain it anyway.

Final cross member gone!


Did a little grinding before I called it a night, but my back was killing me so I lifted that son-of-a-bitch on a sawhorse


Still need to throw some filler welds in for it to be perfect-o!


$15plus shipping, 3.5" behind the axle brackets



Tomorrow I hope to complete the underside, flip it back over and start setting up where the fuel cell will mount and how Im going to run 3" exhaust over the axle and to the back.

 

Awesome!!!

 

wow looks great, i've been keeping tabs on the progress since the start and i must say i'm impressed!

 

thanks guys!

 

so this is going to take a while to type...
truck may be on a little hold im a righty and i broke both ring/middle finger 6 stitches, no more finger nails, cut the bone all on a table saw. doing a side job, on the last board it grabbed and took my fingers with it, i wasnt rushing and i was paying attention...just an accident. ive been usin tools since i was 11, hopefully this is the first and last accident this is goin to suck, they said a couple months <<<<lefty

 

forgot to upload these, from night before hand injury

 

Damn that sucks, sorry to hear about your fingers..... Great work BTW!!!!






BTW IMO you really don't need to use 3/16 for that rear crossmember, 1/8 box would do just fine, not to mention you need a really heavy duty welder (stick, A mig maybe if prepped properly) to even get good pentration on 3/16..... I used all 1/8 on the chasis of my mustang.... Everyone on pro-touring.net said 1/8 was plenty...