Diary of a Madman; TitaniumTT's see you @ DGRRXI RE-REbuild

[TitaniumTT]

Damn man, that blows. The insurance that I have doesn't check my license with the DMV when it's time for renewal. It's this great little thing called the Platnium Discount. It's not really a discount, the actuaries figure it out such that you pay a small fee over what the normal policy is, but they don't run your license. Basically spreading the risk of not checking the license for people that haven't had tickets in a while. It was funny as hell, You've got a discount!! COOL! wait, why is it more expensive? :scratch: Whatever

If you want to come open DP that's cool with me, I would just be worried about the backfires catching shit on fire. We've got plenty of time to piss off my neighbor If you're gonna wait on the charge pipe, we're gonna have to meet @ Alex's, about 10 minutes north of me. We moved my 450lb welder to his place to take care of some stuff. Kinda nice to have it out of the garage, but when I start doing the fuel cell, I'll have to do all the welding there, and then drive to my shop to fit. Meh, alot of back and forth but not too bad.


So, I got half the undercarriage cleaned tonight.. woo!!!! clean the other half tomorrow and probably flip her right side up and wash the bottom, and strip the harnesses and then have at the bottom of my car with a plasma cutter, die grinder, 4.5" grinder etc etc etc..... oh how I LOVE metal work Just wish it wasn't to a finish painted car :wallbash:

[Force13b]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Definately worth doing. I wish I had the means 7 years ago when I first painted the car. Oh well, as soon as I determine that there is nothing else needed to be welded to the chassis of the FD, she's going up on the same rotisserie to make sure the undercarriage is 100% and getting re-undercoated. Nice to know that everything is squared away before the pretty paint goes down. My biggest concern is that I'll damage the paint

I plan on getting my car painted in the next year or so i just don't have the room to do something like that...or the know how Maybe sometime later.

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by BigIslandSevens

Pretty nuts progress man. I was wondering if you have plans for the Rotiserie? Meaning the dimensions etc..I need to build one for a few projects I have coming up.

The use of proper jack points is greatly understated . Sorry for the extra work involved fixing that crap.Dave

Don't have any plans for the rotrisserie, Alex actually built it. I can easily pull a few measurements for you if ya like and get some detailed pics. The problem is going to be making it universal and still having it with the roof as close tot he ground as possible. Meaning, the measurement I give you from the pvot point to the floor will onlt definately work with an FC, might need to adjust it for the FB or an FD.

Next time the comp makes it to the garage I'll get some measurements and a few pics for ya.

-Brian

Originally Posted by Force13b

I plan on getting my car painted in the next year or so i just don't have the room to do something like that...or the know how Maybe sometime later.

If I could do it again I would definately do the undercoating before the paint. My biggest fear is some of the shit is gonna run into the paint or I'm going to damage it somehow. Not a fun feeling by any stretch of the imagination. For you though Tyler, you've got a CA car so you shouldn't have nearly as many problem spots as I do. Unless of course the PO was a moron like mine and destroyed the "jack points." I still haven't put up the money shot
My car spent her first 9 years in VT, claimed it was stored for the winter in a garage but if there was no vapor barrier, it might as well be outside, concrete is fine, but some of the garages in VT are just a barn built on a mudpuddle. It would be easy enough, just time consuming, to get under the car, strip the suspension, drop the tank and the lines, go hog wild cleaning, and then roll the undercoating/bedliner on. If I didn't have any repairs to make that's what I would've done. It's all the welding and cutting and cleaning and grinding nad plasmaing and etc etc etc you get the point that is just much MUCH easier and quicker of the car is upsidedown like this