[drewcrane]

So she shows up with some sexy pics of her in front of her chally and then she pulls out an invite to a stripper party and she claims she is just a "belly dancer" yea right a belly dancer makes 38 k to plop down on a new chally?

She don't look like any kind of dancer to me Drew. Those are not dancers legs. They probably spend more time inverted than the right way up.

Oh i know Dave i even mentioned her funny sticks to Lisa, yea those have been up in the air to much or something.........................

[drewcrane]

Drew you might have some competition mate.

Daves cousin........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/sports_ ... 511711.stm

IM THINKING................................

[dave-r]

Look for shoe scuffs on the headliner of that car.

[Eddie]

So she shows up with some sexy pics of her in front of her chally and then she pulls out an invite to a stripper party and she claims she is just a "belly dancer" yea right a belly dancer makes 38 k to plop down on a new chally?

She don't look like any kind of dancer to me Drew. Those are not dancers legs. They probably spend more time inverted than the right way up.

[drewcrane]

Ok more time spent , this kind of is very time consuming,but worth it in the long run,i am glad i bought this handy sand blaster, it came in real handy dandy ,

I also treated the bare steel the night before with rust converter

[RedRaven]

Rockin stuff lad.....

[drewcrane]

Welding is done for this part,cant wait to get it home to clean and dress each weld for primer,

Some of the problems with welding this stuff is it is a catch 22, Iwant good metal,but after welding I dont want any metal exposed ,so we used weld thru primer, and por 15 on the metal parts

, the problem is this contaminates the welds,so this has to be removed prior to welding,

so now i have to get as much por 15 and metal etch primer on the areas that were welded,

so need less to say i have some work to do, i will for instance get eastwoods inner frame 360 degree sprayer

[patrick]

Everything is looking real good, Drew! Keep those pictures coming!

[botari123]

love the doublers on the connectors
may have to do that

[drewcrane]

love the doublers on the connectors
may have to do that

wow what you have there is super clean and nice,very nice I would leave it alone

This car had some frame rust and we were concerned so we did a little over kill

[drewcrane]

Welds ground down, and primed ready for the next step

[drewcrane]

Ok got the K frame on,but the one thing I need is some new bolts to bolt the lower ball joint to the spindle , I am converting this car from front drum to disk and the factory lock bolts are to old and I can only get one to tighten and rest wont go more than an inch with out stopping even with an impact wrench(see pic),so after looking on my chally, I noticed that it has bolts with cotter pins in stead of the oval shaped lock nuts so I will have to find those, since nobody makes new bolts and nuts

If anyone is doing this conversion in the future(Wayne) , this is why it would be easier to use the drum spindles since they have kits for both drum and disc spindles

[patrick]

Your doing a great job, Drew! Lisa is loving you!!!!

[dave-r]

Yes I remember those bolts.

I used to have a spare set but I seem to remember giving them to someone already. I will double check later.

[drewcrane]

Yes I remember those bolts.

I used to have a spare set but I seem to remember giving them to someone already. I will double check later.

Man those bolts are a pain to remove , it took one guy to hold the dam thing and i ran the impact, each bolt took like 10 minutes to remove and now they wont even go back on

[dave-r]

Two ring spanners and a bit of effort.

Put your back into it you poof!

[drewcrane]

Two ring spanners and a bit of effort.

Put your back into it you poof!

oh I know these were some old units that had been sitting in the dirt, I was able to move them ,but an impact wrench was so much faster at 10 mins. a bolt,by hand I dont think I would be done yet AND MY BACK

[Eddie]

Man Drew, that unitbody is looking sweet! I like the re-inforcements you've made and those alloy strut rods and tubular control arms. It's gonna handle like a GTR!! Cant wait to see it in the flesh in a couple months!

[RedRaven]

Damn guys at this rate there will be an E body for everybody on the next VP trip.......heck even Dave could git him an AMX for the journey.........lol

[drewcrane]

Damn guys at this rate there will be an E body for everybody on the next VP trip.......heck even Dave could git him an AMX for the journey.........lol

There ya go Dave, Jim has 3 AMX,S 2 4 SPEED 1 AUTO, get the car, drive it to the east coast, do a Cuban refugee boat with a bunch of tyres,and float er home

[RedRaven]

Dont tempt him Drew...he bloody would ya know......

[drewcrane]

Ok Back to it just an up date,got the car over to my buddie,Doug, I have his fake snake, and a dog dish(I actually drove an 84 vette) in my corral,

and Doug is out of work(he helped with the frame/body welding on the front) so he has alot of time on his hands and has offered his services at his home ,

so we swapped out cars and the rusty fish now resides in his corral,and this what he did in 2 days.......and there is way more to come

I figure I would give you all something to look at

[Eddie]

Looking good Drew! That unit body is gonna be strong! I too am using Copper SEMS weld thru primer and following up with Rust bullet/Por 15 type of paint.

[drewcrane]

Looking good Drew! That unit body is gonna be strong! I too am using Copper SEMS weld thru primer and following up with Rust bullet/Por 15 type of paint.

LOL I am on my way to the paint store to replenish those very items Ed

good stuff, very good stuff especially that por 15.......just dont get on places you dont want ,cause it wont come off,I even got some on my hands and it took a week to get it off

Yea these cars are built pretty strong,DOUG the guy that is doing alot of the work for me, has done body and frame repair for a living on numerous Nagasaki nut buckets and ,he said the way these cars are built they are much stronger than these imports,but we all know that they are very rigid cars and in a crash they are not as safe as new cars......oh well safe enough for us

[Eddie]

Looking good Drew! That unit body is gonna be strong! I too am using Copper SEMS weld thru primer and following up with Rust bullet/Por 15 type of paint.

LOL I am on my way to the paint store to replenish those very items Ed

good stuff, very good stuff especially that por 15.......just dont get on places you dont want ,cause it wont come off,I even got some on my hands and it took a week to get it off

Yea these cars are built pretty strong,DOUG the guy that is doing alot of the work for me, has done body and frame repair for a living on numerous Nagasaki nut buckets and ,he said the way these cars are built they are much stronger than these imports,but we all know that they are very rigid cars and in a crash they are not as safe as new cars......oh well safe enough for us

Nagasaki nut Bucket!! Yeah, with the frame mods we are doing,,way stronger!

[drewcrane]

Got some rusty metal cut away,and did more sand blasting in the hot sun

I blasted it down to the gas cap

[drewcrane]

LOL,here is the blasted tail less fish,,

and my redneck sand blasting booth I got a pretty good sunburn working
on my NECK!

[Adrian Worman]

Man you been BUSY ................looks pretty good from my chair tho mate, keep postin please

[drewcrane]

Man you been BUSY ................looks pretty good from my chair tho mate, keep postin please

Yea I have to take advantage of this ,so we are going to get this part of the project done asap.I am going over there after work to apply por 15 in the nooks and crannys where the factory just didnt do ANY rust preventive

[Eddie]

lookin good Drew! Looks like you guys cut the guts outta that fish!