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Been working (not me of course) on the rear setup. We are working under the umbrella of existing parts, that means arms, CVs, axles and 14/16" shocks. It took a while to get everything just right but I think it's there now. I picked up the rear springs yesterday from Denny at Foddrills in...

I have a pair of Fox 14" coilover shocks, these are 2" emulsion shocks, 7/8 shaft with no reservoir. The springs are Eibach 350 over 450. These were purchased new in 2014 and have been installed on my V8 sand car since I bought them. They DO NOT leak and are presently filled with Fox oil and...

Eric Emler has been working on the engine and trans placement. He wants the cv cups in line with the centerline of the arm pivots to maximize wheel travel, mostly to increase droop travel without going crazy with cv angle. This setup should yield us a very modest angle in the low teens at ride...

Very cool, thanks for bringing it back to the surface.    The wife and I hiked the Granite Mountain Hotshot Memorial trail yesterday as a matter of fact. We’re only about a 90 minute drive from Yarnell. The start of the journey wasn’t too bad with just small patches of snow here and there, but...

The time has come to retire our current car and get the new frame all set up to receive the engine/trans and the rest of the parts that will be transferred over. Yesterday we pulled the engine/trans out and now I have to disassemble it. Eric specifically needs the rear trailing arms so he can...

The rest of my group is upgrading to digital equipment so I'm just seeing if there is any interest in my Rugged RM60 car to car unit. It's a white model and I've had it for 4 years now. I have no issues with it. This is just the radio by itself, no intercom, no headsets.  I'm asking $200...

I want to post something that I don’t say often enough that relates to my dear wife.  She has been wonderful throughout these trips down the rabbit hole, trips that 100% of the time go way over budget with what I had told her it would cost. She puts up with a lot of crap from me but I couldn’t...

Well it’s been a while with zero progress but Eric is back on it for now. Got a few more pieces of tubing put in and he has the prototypes for the doors loosely installed.  He is still working out some of the details with the hinges and inside door handles so only time will tell what he does...

Looks like somebody buried their truck and is in need of some help.

Might as well go down this road, I'll start with some show and tell. I've got a 4 seater, stock LS3, HV-24, 33 Blasters and it probably weights 2500-2600lbs. The ass end is 95" wide measured outside of tire to outside of tire, I have 31" 300M Tatum axles and I use Tatum midboard hubs. I also use...

Anyone lucky enough to see Roger Waters on the North American leg of his "This Is not A Drill" tour? My wife and I saw him this last Monday in Glendale, Arizona. It was an incredible show considering he is 78. His voice hasn't changed much since we saw him 20 years ago at Irvine Meadows. I have...

An MPPT controller is the only way to go, they will utilize almost all of the energy from the panels with no waste. Buy a larger unit than you think you will need, I have a 60a PowMr unit and it works well. Also regarding panels, 300w+ residential panels have DC outputs over 35 volts on average...

Sounds like you have a service advisor issue, an egr valve is a simple repair as long as the advisor had budgeted enough time with you to actually have the tech make the repairs. I guarantee this was a rushed job, not that you rushed them, but something the advisor dropped the ball on and didn't...

An L76 pan measured from the block rail to the bottom of the pan is right at 6 1/2", the drain plug boss adds another 1/2" or so. It holds 8qts. Might be enough room for the slope of your skid plate, might have to cut out a section in the skid plate for the drain plug boss, even space it down a...

I don't know about any of you folks but I get so bored looking at the stacked MIG welds. If you are going to MIG it, just MIG it. If you want the stacked look use a TIG and be done with it. If anyone thinks a robotic weld has to be crappy, think again. Apparently the Germans at Porsche have it...

Speaking of TO bearings, I had to pull my engine out at the last minute at New Years to fix a hydraulic leak at the shaft mounted Albins actuator on my HV24. That sumbitch left a puddle on the ground in the garage just out of the blue one day. I was planning on ordering one of the $450 actuators...

Our good friend Eric Emler/E2 Ironworks is the one who is fabricating this beauty.     We started off with the idea we were going to replicate the frame we had already, only in 4130. Then over many late nights of discussions for what seemed like a couple of years we decided to build from...

If you need to weld 1" thick aluminum, the Dynasty 800 will do it.

I dug up some of the build photos.  I tried to keep them in order but they still posted out of order, oh well.    If any of you have experience welding a chassis together you’ll know about moving metal. Even with bolting it to the fixture table this chit moves when you weld it. It’s not easy...

Just some photos of the group we roll with. Maybe you've seen us at Gordons? Ok back to the build. Is there something you see that very few cars have these days? You got it, DOORS! We were tired of crawling into and falling out of the car. Decided to build it with them from the get go instead...