Archive for Category: "Build Journal"

Bleary eyed and making progress

Bleary eyed and making progress

When summer rolls around we are all busy. Add on all the other things that ramp up to our build and we are a bunch of bleary eyed guys running around trying to fix everything. However with that being said, we are making progress, and lots of it! With the main portion of our cage [...]

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Cage Build Take Two

Cage Build Take Two

There are few things more disappointing than having to redo something that you thought you had already finished. We are fairly used to it on smaller scale items however. When we do something we often will go through several ideas before we discover the best idea to make the best solution to whatever problem we [...]

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HURRY UP! now wait

HURRY UP! now wait

The magical mystery of building just about anything is the urgency that needs to happen at times that is often dashed by late parts or no parts at all. We have been twiddling our thumbs recently waiting for some new parts to arrive and we can not wait to get them! In the mean time [...]

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Measure twice, cut… 10 or 11 times

Measure twice, cut… 10 or 11 times

With the fabrication of the main hoop we were able to start working on the rest of the cage. This is an absolute art and anyone that tells you different hasn’t ever tried to do all of this. We are fortunate to have “bones” himself and Tyler “the cage whisperer” providing their help and expertise [...]

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The First Bends

The First Bends

The week before heading to Built by Bones was a major push. With the delay in the trans mount we had to make some quick progress. What’s left? Well, we had to weld in the trans mounting tabs, make an access to remove the trans, box in the opening in the center of the frame [...]

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Finishing the Trans Mount

Finishing the Trans Mount

Each day is an adventure and we are nearly ready to get to Built by Bones to fab our cage. The final step to getting up to the cage shop is to finish up our transmission mount. We managed to make some great progress on that over the past couple weeks but it has been [...]

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Trans mount

Trans mount

Some things you just can’t find off the shelf and well the trans mount to use with our King Kong is something we had to make. We are fortunate to have quite a few Class 11 teams giving us info and one of them is headed up by Kenyon. He shot us a link to [...]

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Preparations for a Cage

Preparations for a Cage

We have been waiting for our parts to finish up for our trans mount and in the mean time we are doing our best to locate some more parts that are needed for our cage. There is so much research to be done in order to select suspension, torsion tubes, springs, spring plates. Then of [...]

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The Overview

The Overview

It is a funny thing working on a 40+ year old car. You can spend hours on a part of the car and it will absolutely look as though you have done nothing to improve the car. So why do it? Why spend all this time when you could just cage it and go race [...]

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Hey there King Kong

Hey there King Kong

Recently I stopped on in to Rock Barbers and gave an update as they trimmed up my hair. You know what I realized? Well, I should probably tell everyone on our website too! Since we’ve been having a bit of trouble with our website security recently It has been a higher priority to fix the [...]

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