tilt forward hood

The hood is coming along, the gap to the doors still needs fine tuning though. I need to build the inner fenders too but I'm gonna wait till I swap the 50 series tires for 60s. The gear ratio is just too far off with the 50s, turns about 3000rpm @ 70mph. I don't think the bone stock 302 likes it much and I want to road trip this thing bad!

Also, I picked up the rest of the 3/4" EMT I need to do a body kit around the front and rear clips to make the car appear lower. Im gonna try 3" to start, imagine a line off the bottom of the side pipe. This should help compensate for the 60 series tires and raising the suspenion an inch or so. With the current set up, Im hitting the stoppers fairly easily.

swingarm repair

My awesome little bro gave me the yz250 I'm riding. Thanks again buddy! The only issue with the bike was that the swingarm had a crack just off the weld that sits immediately ahead of the shock link mount. The crack was on the outside face of the swingarm and spanned the full height of the weld.

I drilled the crack out on each end with a 1/4" drill bit and gouged the crack with a Dremel. I ran a single downhand pass with a 230v Miller spool gun, 0.035 wire dia. 100% argon shielding gas. Probably 2 dozen rides on it now, no MX, just trail at Walker Valley and its holding up great.

b-pillars

Finished fitting the B pillars, attenpt number 3 but I think this will work. It took me several attempts to understand the geometry of how the 4 door has to work with the removable hardtop and the electric windows.

I'm happy with the look and fit of the visor too. Hard to see but I used 1/4" stainless allen head bolts. They look pretty rad and they're easy. I think im gonna try and use these around the exterior of the car.

1941 Ford rat rod

Early pictures from my newest project: "Gramps Started It". Its basically a 1941 convertable front and rear clip grafted onto a 1997 Ford Explorer. I made a steel removable hard-top, Chopped ~8", doors sectioned 3", 4" lowered suspension and 50 series tires. The chassis is bone stock and really untouched, has the 5.0 L with GTP heads full-time AWD and AOD tranny. Trying for paint this winter...

You can just see the roll cage hoop that im setting into place here near where the b pillars wiil be... Grandpa did the body work on the rear here anfter grafting on the rear clip. This clip is from a 1941 convertable model.



1985 Subaru gl w/ '99 EJ2.2l swap

I completed the motor swap in 2008 removing the carbureted 1.8l with a severely cracked head (dramaticized on our way back to WA from Moab, UT, #3 spark plug was green from antifreeze when we put-putted back into the driveway). Found a 1999 Legacy on Craigslist and pulled the engine and wiring harness, built my own exhaust, bought an SJR adapter plate and away it goes!

Goodies include XT four wheel disk brakes and sway bars, power steering rack, 6-bolt wheel conversion, Impreza front seats, 2" receiver for bike rack use only. I've put over 50k since the swap and road trips include Vegas, lake tahoe, long beach, ca (twice)

This is what I came up with for exhaust, had to completely build it from the block to the tail pipe.