What have you done this weekend...?

Before....



After.... I know it ain't pretty but it's solid. Spot welded in the sheet steel, bondo'd the edges I couldn't weld and shot some undercoating on it. Good 'nuff for the girls I go with!

 

that looked like a flowmaster resonant chamber earlier in the thread ?

 

This one?



MagnaFlow 3" stainless from the catalytic converter back. Sounds sweet!

 

You cant bog up like that in Uk ,--that would be a scrapper, sorry but bogging up round a strong point ie a suspension strut is a no no in a big kinda way.

I used to be an "MOT" tester,---- Ministry Of Transport tests. Thats a fail!!!

"yeah but we are not in UK are we'

Nope and a good job too.

Looks like it been in the sea ,--do you use it to launch the boat with? I think your backing in a bit too far.

 

I tied in the trailing arm bracket to good steel on the rocker with 2" x 1/8" flat bar. The sub frame connectors tie the bracket into the front sub-frame as well. Structurally it's more sound than original. There's all new sheet steel welded in to fill the gap. I've hit it with a hammer a few times and it's sound.

The biggest cause of rust around here is the salt they use on the roads in the winter. It gets everywhere and it's insidious. It'd probably be better off driven into the sea occasionally.

It'll never be a show piece and that's ok. Just somethin' to play with on weekends & date nights. I generally view these lil' projects as learning experiences. :idea:

 

Here's a pic of the sub-frame connectors Frosty. They're welded into the front sub frames and span the trailing arm brackets. This effectively ties the whole car together. Damn uni-body cars!



So if the structure is beefed up with the sub-frame connectors all I have to worry about is exhaust ingress into the cabin right? I think most of the damage occurred with the PO or somebody jacked up the car by the rocker panels instead of the frame.

 

We would call that a panard rod, Jags had them on the mark 2. I suppose if you have basically put another chassis in line with it then ???

Perhaps that car is well known for rotting out in that area and this is an after market keep it on the road accessory.

Ok I might give it a ticket if you give me money.

 

Yes. It ties the front sub frame sections directly to the rear end bypassing the uni-body all together. These third generation Camaro's & Firebirds are notorious for body flex under power. Mine is the T-top version which isn't any better than a convertible for structure. The engine is a 5.7lt V8 Tuned Port Injection with factory HP @225. I've put a performance chip in the ECM which is supposed to bring it up to 325-350 HP depending on grade of fuel etc. That's more than enough HP to twist the poor ole' Camaro into a pretzel w/o some strengthening!

Well 22 years and 280,000 KM's on Canadian salt encrusted roads have taken it's toll. It certainly won't get that kind of mileage anymore. There's half a dozen mfgr's that produce frame connectors and other underbody components to address the OEM deficiencies especially when you stick more HP in the car than it was designed for.

100 Baht 'nuff?

 

Naughtybuoyz, I thought you were into boats, now it seems you are into rusty cars. That car is going to sail like a stone... streight to the bottom

I made some ss cleats this weekend. Took a bit longer than I thought, but they did turn out quite nice.

 

I got bored and needed a new challenge. The boat is working perfectly! Almost 4 years to iron all the bugs out of it, now it's turnkey and go!

Pictures please.

 

"Oh Dhaarlinnng" says 'he' gushing and gesticulating in an effeminate manner and pointing towards 'himself', "It is a queens birthday holiday weekend...." a quick and disgusted about-face and my parting retort - "Well you'll have to **** yourself then - I'm outa here...." Bugger these seemingly endless holidays - never seemed to happen when I was in paid employment?... So what did I do on this extended weekend - Not the queer - Just helped the Lovely Lady to clean up around the house (well make more mess than clean up - but is not that the male thing?)...

 

Make food, good food, get wine, good wine, have lunch from 12 til 7, find good people and talk good talk... laugh, lots... for tomorrow you may not be

 

Went for a boat ride! Wohoo!!!

Eventually you get to a point in a project and you realize it's better to turn some aspects of the job over to the Pro's! There's no way I can fix the sub-frame so it's off to the body shop. ::shrug::

Rocky's got his wheels back on the ground.



Had to bolt one of my new (new to me they're from a 99 Camaro) seats in to move the car. In the house they looked a lot darker than the interior of the car and I was afraid I was going to have to change the color of the interior but I lucked out. Near perfect match!



Excuse the mess, rehab project underway!

 

Last week (end) - made a jig for the cat's beams. It can collaps and taken apart once the glass has cured.

The 12mm cleats I made. You can see the accessories is coming along. The box is almost full. Hopefully by the time the hulls are completed, I would have most of the stuff required. There are 10 cleats, four three-way blocks (need to make another four), four furling rollers top swivels. The three way block can be made single, two way, three way, four way, five way... by just disassembling and reassembling them.

Since we're going fishing at the tugela mouth (google earth it) in two weeks time, and I refuse to sit on land looking at the fish swim by in a distace I decided to take the little tri along, just in case we get a chance the waves will let us through, will be kinda like the last time I'm taking it out. I'm fitting a boom to the aft mast sail foot, need to do some final experimenting. Didn't know how I was going to do some things, so took a bath earlier tonight (that's where the thinking happens best for some reason ) and when I got out I knew how it was going to work. Couple of difficulties I had to provide for which is going to take too long to explain. The universal got modified today so it can swivel up more than standard. By tomorrow night the boom should be fitted.

 

Is it weekend still / yet

Just as I (damn I'm good ) predicted - the boom came up today. Couple of small things to do still but most of it is in place. It looks promissing. No wind so the sail just hangs limp. (is this still called in irons )

I fitted a splach cover for the just in case.

Another side view pic of the cleat in case you thought it gets pop rivited