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    1. #381
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      I had to adjust the housing to allow clearance for the dedione. It's aluminum but it looked like sh*t, so I painted it black instead.


      Not exactly the best looking job, but it'll do. I had to move the original breather, but I managed to keep the new one behind the cover plate.




      Mounted. I hope I'll never have to take it down again! Heavy and really hard to fit it.


      And here's with the dedione in the correct position.


      Next up are half shafts...
      I made a simple jig to determine the length of the new ones. This way, I could easily adjust the length of the shaft and move the dedione through the entire suspension travel to make sure that the shafts aren't too long or short.



      Hard to get a good pic with the camera, but here's the jig anyway.





      Regarding shafts, I'm gonna start with shortening the ones I have. Just to make sure that everything else works before I order expensive custom length shafts. It might be considered crazy, but lets face it; my car wont do 200 mph the week after I've finished it. There will probably be a couple of seasons sorting out initial problems before I have confidence in pushing it to its limit. As soon as I've seen that the dedione works as intended, I'll order the real ones.
      Shafts, original length:


      Cutting them up:


      welded and roughly turning them in the lathe. Measuring the throw.


      Adjusting them so that they're 100% straight.

      The original shafts were off center in appr. 0.15mm. I manage to get my down less than 0.05mm.

      Finishing work in the lathe:


    2. #382
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      Amazing work as always
      Hot rodder's recycle, wheres those prius' going when the tree huggers have a new fad.

    3. #383
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      I haven't really focused 100% at the Pontiac during the last six months. A cold winter, some house projects and a CNC-conversion of my mill has been prioritized instead.
      Yes, a CNC-mill.
      I bought an old manuall mill a couple of years ago. It was fairly priced, compact enought to fit my ultra small garage and hadn't been used for 20 years. The guy who bought it never plugged it in.
      Already when I bought it, I had in mind a CNC-conversion of it. A mill is probably the most versatile machine you can have in a garage and a CNC is even better...
      After it had been completely disassembled, cleaned and then put back together, it was mostly used for some very simple operations - drilling holes, milling flat surfaces etc.
      Now, two years after I bought it, I thought it was time to finish the project. Tog me three months appr. and since I'm no electrical guy it was alot of work. Alot. I probably made all mistakes that could have been done...

      Allthough, now than it's finished I realize that I should have done this BEFORE I even started the project. Oh my what a nice machine - it would have saved me alot of hours of manual milling and turning.



      Picked it up 8hrs drive from home. Nobody I knew, and no solution to load a 1000 lbs machine on a truck. Found a nice guy via a forum, who knew someone, who had a father, whos gardener knew a guy (well, sort of atleast. Not exactly that network chain) who would load it with a... well, green vehicle on the picture. No idea what that's called in english.


      It was too heavy to unload in the garage. I don't even have an engine lift (nor could fit that in the garage), so I took it to work instead. Took it apart, and brought home piece by piece instead.


      Bringing home the base was the hardest work. Appr. 450 lbs. A friend came over to help be, but when he saw what it was he claimed back problem and drank my beer while I was working instead. Great friend, lol.



      Everything was cleaned, regreased and put back together.


      The old screws were thrown in favour for ball screws to minimize play.
      At the same time, the machine was converted to centralized lubrication, instead of having grease nipples everywhere.



      Home made electrical cabinet. Tight one, but I wanted to squeeze it into the base instead of hanging on the wall. The garage is tiny, so I've put wheels under the mill so it's possible to move in case I need to mill large parts or just want to move things around in the garage.


      I've also spent a respectable amount of time (read: crazy many hours!) to minimize play in it. Right now, there's +-0,03mm in X, +-0,01 in Y and 0 in Z. I'm gonna put some time on it now, and then I'll take a look at the X-axis and see if I can get it any better.


      First attempt. It works!


      And my tiny garage... It's 19 square meeters, or 230 square feet if I got the conversion right. The mill on wheels, the tools on wheels and the bench on wheels...
      When the front is on the car, I'll have a problem to fit myself in the garage...

    4. #384
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      Oh the joys of tight work spaces.
      I had a place where my '65 Mustang would fit in with an inch to the wall in the front and the garage door in the back.
      I eventually sold the Mustang and bought a full size pickup truck. Oh the joys of turning wrenches in the cold and in the rain
      Re-installing drive shafts in a snow storm is NO fun, i can tell you.


      1985 Dodge Power Ram W250 3/4t 360/518/241
      2005 Dodge Ram 1500 SRT-10 505/T56/D60 small upgrades

    5. #385
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      Nice to get the mill. Wish I had one at your age! Wish I had one now! ahahaha

    6. #386
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      It's beyond nice. It's like heaven. It'll probably become my best friend, lol.

    7. #387
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      Your thread makes me want to buy a tig welder and milling machine, then getting to work! Awesome progress and keep up the good work!


      1955 Nomad project LC9, 4L80e, C5 brakes, Vision wheels
      1968 Camaro 6.2 w/ LSA, TR6060-Magnum hybrid and etc SOLD
      1976 T/A LS1 6 Speed, and etc. SOLD

    8. #388
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      Quote Originally Posted by ryeguy2006a View Post
      Your thread makes me want to buy a tig welder and milling machine, then getting to work! Awesome progress and keep up the good work!
      Yep, does the same to me as well.
      Hot rodder's recycle, wheres those prius' going when the tree huggers have a new fad.

    9. #389
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      Looks great!


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      Project Fox
      1979 Trans Am

    10. #390
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      Thanks!

      Quote Originally Posted by ryeguy2006a View Post
      Your thread makes me want to buy a tig welder and milling machine, then getting to work! Awesome progress and keep up the good work!
      Quote Originally Posted by linkstar69 View Post
      Yep, does the same to me as well.
      Well, what are you guys waiting for? ;)


      Here are some of my first parts I made. You'll see where they are used later.
      I had to glass blast the first parts since finish didn't came out good.



    11. #391
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      Here's my internal catch tank for my ATL 22gal cell. Internal pumps, roll over valve and a (too short) fuel level sender. The one that was long enough costed like 300 USD. The complete catch tank in the picture costed like 250 USD total, so I felt that was slightly out of budget. I guess I'll try to lengthen the one I have when the car is finished.






      Generation 1 and 2 of the fuel filter mount. I tried to squeeze it inside the ATL-cell, but I had to shrink the catch tank too much so it ended up outside instead.




      New ignition coils from some kind of LSx (don't remember right now)



      Right coil: Would be great if all eight had parallell mounts... Lucky I bought nine to have one as a spare for the future.


      Assembled:



      Ontiac? WTF!
      Things like that happen when you don't copy EVERYTHING to the computer.
      Well, I'm not sure I'm really satisfied with the placement of them. In the right of the pic, you can that I'm already looking into a new location...

    12. #392
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      Reassembling of the suspension parts since it's getting closer to the first (of three) inspections for making it road legal.

      Rear suspension. Made holes in the body for mounting the reservoirs inside at the cage (showing off cool coil overs through the rear window during car shows is a obligatory lol).






      Block-off plates for the hole in the body. They were first made of 3D-printed ABS, but since I have a mill nowadays I made them in aluminum instead. First ever CNC-program I made, shows there's some learning to do.. Second attempt came out better (same picture... you can probably guess which one is second...)


      Third (and fourth) attempt:


      Assembled:



      Impossible to take pictures inside the coupé since everything is painted black...



      Also got some new sheet metal for my new front arms.






      Better clearance for the rocker arms




      Push rods also fully welded. Took a nut and turned out the inside until correct diameter and pressed it over the pushrod. It's locked with a couple of welds.

    13. #393
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      Uprights back together.








      I bought a Ford Mustang aluminum shaft for the car since I have a Ford 8.8 rearend. Switched to my GM yoke and started to measure how much I needed to shorten it. Ended up 137mm shorter - 10,5 inch or so.


      The short part was kind of hard to put in the lathe. Obviously it wasn't centered at the factory but it was done better this time.



      Welded it:


      Then I polished it... Well... It didn't take that long and it's not show finish.


      Put it back together with all hardware....


      ...And well... yes. I'll probably gain atleast 1s/lap with that sticker! ;)
      It started with the two parallell lines. I added them to see if there are any fatigues (they will probably not be straight anymore).
      Had a hard time to find anyone wanting to balancing a aluminum shaft in Sweden, but found one finally 4 hours away from home. Shipped it with a colleague going that direction - my parts are way to precious to be shipped by regular companies... ;)



      Then I replaced the old tie rods with new ones since version one felt a little weak

      Version 1:


      Version 2:

    14. #394
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      All things back together and it looked like this, but fully welded and ready for the first scrutineering.

      First scrutineering is mostly theoretical stuff - choices of material, inspection of welds, parts etc.
      I passed without any remarks, and the guy doing the inspection was really impressed of all details and thought everything was very well thought out.
      So, after three hours of inspection and interrogating, he was like: I have nothing to add. Everything looks great
      I was like:



      After that was done, I started on the rad support.





      Small mill, but everything is possible. The profile is 3,5 foot and had to divide the G-code into five different programs to make it. Nothing is impossible. ;)
      Starting:




      Sort of finished:


      - - - Updated - - -

      Had all the parts acid dipped to remove the anodizing so I could weld them. Nice to start with really really really clean parts.



      Center section welded in place. Same height as the subframe so it'll be easy to build a flat floor in the future.
      Really nice working with CNC-made parts. It's like a puzzle, just put them together and weld. Probably the closest to bolt-on parts I'll ever experience, lol.


      3D-printed supports for the radiator to sit on since the rad is leaning forward. Took 17hours to print each one! (turned out I'm not 100% satisfied, so I'll have to make new ones, haha!)




      Ready to drop the radiator in.. Will do it this week and finish the last parts hopefully.

    15. #395
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      Amazing....as always...

      Andrew
      1970 GTO Version 3.0
      1967 Cougar build
      GM High-Tech Performance feature
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      I deliver what EFI promises.
      Remote Holley EFI tuning.
      Please get in touch if I can be of service.

      "You were the gun, your voice was the trigger, your bravery was the barrel, your eyes were the bullets." ~ Her

    16. #396
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      This is so enjoyable to watch come together
      Hot rodder's recycle, wheres those prius' going when the tree huggers have a new fad.

    17. #397
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      I can't tell you how much I truly love this build, great work and I have nothing to add....
      66 Mustang "Project: Ballin on a budget"
      89 Mustang "Box Wine"

    18. #398
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      I'm speechless- amazing work.

    19. #399
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      Thanks guys,

      I really appreciates your comments. It makes it easier finding the time to be in the garage.

    20. #400
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      Drop the MIC....BOOM....
      Ron -
      1970 Mach1
      440 RWHP, 428 RWTQ
      Calypso Coral, 357W, T5Z 5-speed,
      Edelbrock 454 17x8 Wheels, 255x40x17 rear, 215x45x17 front, Bridgestone Potenza RE-71, TCP Coilovers Front, Global West Del-A-Lum Bushings,Global West Adj. Strut Rods, Wilwood Discs All around

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