Project: SCHEVY 2001 Silverado

[FirstGenZq8]

love the vids! great work!

[John Wright]

Love the progress vids...an excellent way to put thousands of words into a post without having to type them all...LOL

(pic worth a 1000 words, vid worth thousands of words)

[montessaj]

I wish I had the guts to buy a brand new set of fenders and cut them up. You seriously have some skills.

[GMracer]

Thanks man, luckily silverado fenders aren't nearly as expensive as some of these resto fenders for the older cars.

[GMracer]

So after some pondering, I think I'm going to nix the OBS inner fenders... not completely sure yet. So I decided I'd go back and finish my exhaust tips. Come to find out I forgot to take into account the taper of the roll pan when I jigged up the tips and made them square to the pan not level with the ground. However it's not terrible, and too drastic so I should be able to live with it. However I need to re cut the openings in the roll pan, for now here are a few pics of them mocked up.



Here you can see the rear tip compared to the front bumper duct

[brrymnvette]

I've been dreaming of tips and roll pan like that for years. I wish someone would just mass produce them already. For the full size and for the colorado.

[WS6]

OBS inner fenders?

I like the roll pan and tips. Having the tips not flush witht he roll pan could work in your favor by helping it stand out a little and not blend away. Or is it a different issue?

[John Wright]

Scrap the tips and start over....LOL

I see what you mean about the tips not rolling around towards the outside of the truck like the roll pan does....to be honest, I bet nobody would ever know if you hadn't pointed it out. Maybe the roll pan will stretch out a bit on that side? I dunno metal work like you do so that might sound stupid and not even be feasible.

[GMracer]

No they sit flush when they're mounted and the will fit the openings perfect, its just the flat part on the inside will be pitched down towards the back of the truck slightly. So you're right no one will notice, haha

[John Wright]

Hurry up and get some exhaust tubing welded to those babies...LOL

[Motown 454]

Your making some nice progress, I like the video updates.

[GMracer]

Not much of an update, but figured I'd share. Found a water jet company 2 miles from my home so this is going to help this and future builds tremendously. I have about $170 worth of brackets being cut and will help get me to the next stage of my build... picking them up tomorrow stayed tuned for that.

As far as, have I been working on it? Well yes, but not much to take pictures, however I did finish up the exhaust tip openings, made them bigger and more symmetrical. All metal finished up. As far as the tips I decided on painting them, as well as the front bumper ducts with a chrome paint. This will allow me to do some needed bodywork, the back plate of the tip will be black to help hide the exhaust tubing opening. Stay tuned, I have one more week off from school and with work slow I may have a few "days off" so I can get some good progress.

As far as the rollpan, here are some pictures before I weld it in for good.

[CruizinKev]

looking good! nice work!

[T00LMAN]

Looking good as ever Nick. :thumbup:

[jevonniespapi]

This is very motivating. We need to talk!

[GMracer]

Thanks, and about what?

[GMracer]

I think it'd be way too expensive to try to make them, a LOT of work went into them,

Update time:
So this water jet thing freakin' rocks! So nice to design them in CAD and have them 1-2 days later.
Couple brackets I had cut, were the cage plates, explained in the video

Swaybar Plates to weld to the bottom side of the frame to hold the muscle bar


New rear lower bag plates

Lower shockwave Mount




Upper shockwave Mount




Waiting for my 3/8" Aluminum Spacers for the upper mount

Clearance? Good!




VIDEO UPDATE:

[CruizinKev]

sweet!! very nice fab work!

[Motown 454]

Very nice, they help make some awesome fab work even better.

[Eric Howell]

I hate you. I have to work on my truck now, and it's outside...and cold.

No, just playing. Your build is so motivating for me.

Awesome fab. So you're not a fabricator by trade?