northernchris

As you say John overengineered AND useing carp metals Lack of weight is the way to go.Using good quality gear to fab from makes a huge differance. The damper "mount" loading will vary massively on how the compresion damping is setup.

The only extra bracing that i am going to put in will be between the upright tube to the plate,the forces acting on the tube are in compresion and in tension so IF it where running the coilovers i am playing with Yep they would need alot more bracing to carry the load.The idea is to see how light we can go WITHOUT them falling to bits.Plus i have a fair bit of confidance in my welding

You would NEVER want to run engine cooling water through the charge cooler ,only if you wanted to use it as a pre heater!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Remove the rear box only else it will be pretty noisy,will see abit better performance especially if you tweek the pump. Chris

Was,nt good to meet you either Mr Turner

Get yourself some of that S 515 in 6mm to do your rear winch mount VERY VERY strong stuff and way lighter than the forth road bridge you are planing building in the back of your 90 Then again you would have to change your rear springs else you will have a +6" lift to deal with

Acquired 2 rear ORAM shocks same as what scrapiron put in their wonderfull extreme kit I wanted to make something WAY lighter than the orange people do so i knocked up these last night These are just one off's for my own motor,got some in the pipe line to fit std length right through to +6" that fit under std rear tubs Materials used were 1.75" x 2.8mm T45 for the tube work,S515 3.5mm plate for the mounts and 2.5mm 316L stainless sheet for the spring relocators. Both mounts,relocators and spring retaining bars weigh less than 1 scrapion nylon sliding thing!!! Chris

Had a good time just glad to get back to work for a rest!!!eerrrrrrrr i mean get back to work and finish a certain persons 2 trucks off for them before his perm falls out!!!!!!!!! Met up with Jez and the rest of the nutters shame i was,nt stood still long enough for a beer. Chris

It,s all good

Andy Do you know what grade of Alloy it was that you used??? i.e 7075 t6 etc etc Chris

Pm me your email addy and i will sort out some pics for you friday morning. Chris

I will try and take some pics for you just FLAT OUT at the mo mate.

It mounts on the rear stays with a strap!

Dont worry mate it,s going in the SCRAP BIN

Can someone send me some stickers up then??????????????????????

I was gonna knock 1 up 2nite 1am!!!!! Wide awake too hot, sod it then go back to work

Get some sent up then,i will do the deed

Lets just say next time you see Edd,s truck there wont be much orange peel but alot more very PRECISE parts.!!!!!!!!! oh and a good measure of exact stickers here and there.

In what respect Nige?

HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have got so much on at the mo there is no need to chase more work!! My truck will be in the car park there is no way it could be shown as it looks like it,s been hit by a whirl wind!!!,the exhaust job on pornys 90 will be on the QT stand oh and si at X-Eng will have a nice shiny new stand for his lights. When do you want this tube work doing?????????????

Go and see Andy at ruftrfacks,as Tony says plasma 12 is the way to go,I think Jez would agree it,s good gear.

As it says got Edd's truck in for a make over inc cage and various suspension mods

Will I will be there fri/sat/sun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! workshop only 10 mins from Billing so will be back and forth. Bob Thanks for your feed back at least it was worth the hard work,oh and YES we do need a calendar I think this has been the hardest 2weeks to date,with useless steel stockholders right through to way too hot weather!!!!! Cheers for the patience Bob you must be a saint!!

Would i say that about you Les????????????????????????eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrr maybe

Al I tryed my best to change his mind ,but the man with the money is always right!!!!!!!!!!!!! The lad that owns the above is a real nice bloke so we tryd our best to come up with a good setup. I must admit that i find it very hard what to do when it comes the the client wanting different things done with the cage,the problem is when it comprimises the design what do you do????????????? Safety MUST be the 1st importance but sometimes some clients just dont want to listen.In the case of the above the cage is as strong as we can go without blocking the inner and outer window shut,we even went up to 3.2 wall CDS to help regain some strength.