Rust in the Wind Subaru Brat Updates/Other stuff (Page 1 of 2)

Yezzir.  Turned out it was a t04e too which is rotary gold!

So, why wasn't the Brat at Eagles Canyon?

Little updatez;

So last event out we broke our muffler tubing lemons-spec driveshaft in half.  Derrick fabbed up another one and I got it put in last night.

Quality stuff.  Fired it up to make sure the transmission and everything still worked, and also got all the bugs outta the shop.  Twas awesome.

Also got to work on the family's farm truck that sat for 6 years my cousin is turning into a tow vehicle for his toys.  I would'nt be doing my patriotic duty if I didn't post this awesome-mobile.  12v Cummins, has been sitting at the farm for 6+ years.  Runs like a champ.

'Merica.

Also an event popped up that so far has 3k in prizes. I'll probably get stomped on because I'll be in the brat but it should be pretty awesome, and it'll be my 1st competition in almost three years.  It'll be located out at Mineral Wells Airpark on the huge pavement area at the end of Columbia Street and is only $5 to watch!.

If you have any more questions about coming to watch, or if you wanna drive you can find anything out you wanna know at FabricatedMotorsports.com or you can email AaronLosey@mac.com

This'll be a pretty awesome event to check out and have some fun.

I got some more updates I'll post soon.

Got to have a little fun today at the shop, my cuzzzz picked up a blower for his Plum Crazy SRT-8 Charger, and we started installing it.

Was a used kit with no instructions, and I'm not gonna lie, I was trying to figure out the oddball design on the "Crank pulley adapter" and need to get a different bolt for it, and we also needed to get some other little tiny things, and I didn't feel like doing all the wiring tonight, so we didn't get it done, but it was a pretty fun/cool project we got to start on late tonight.

Pulled it in around 4'oclock to get started, waited on it to cool off a little bit, and we got some food and stuff, and farted around, and got a decent bit done.  Since its not a racecar we had to spend like an hour taking all the silly factory clips off and a bunch of jib-jab, but made a dent in it pretty well.  All we have left is the wiring and intercooler stuffs after we get a new crank bolt.

Start

Blower off

When we left:

Can't wait to finish this, and my cousin is super excited as he's been saving up for this for a while.  It's not a Magnuson but its still pretty cool, we got it used from a shop called Fastlane in Houston, Magnuson is still working on CARB legal stuff and this popped up now, so my cousin jumped on it.  Pretty cool kit although the company went outta business.  Should throw down about 530rwhp when done, with A/C, 4 seats, should be a cool cruiser.  He already has the KW coilovers and other mopar stuff, pretty cool car.  Gotta get the DriveShaftShop axles next so we can take it to the drag strip, but its nice workin on something cool at the shop.

Also got the Brat running again.  Woowoo.

Little update on the Camaro, not anything huge yet, still stripping down.

Had to use the plasma cutter (which is soooo awesome) to cut an access hole to get to the subframe washer/bolt dealie, then got that off.  Just been bench-building, and did a 60k service on my friends truck today.

Was tryin to shave some weight, and will be using an OEM Aluminum spindle with some custom control arms, gonna start playing with that tomorrow, as well as the rearend setup a little as well.

This rust is becoming a huge pain, finding all of it is annoying, also looking to take the tub somewhere to have it blasted, am extremely open to suggestions here.

Some pictarz, but not any huge progress.

Mostly bare tub:

Subframe, with rusted non removable bolts I have to cut out:
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Will hopefully get some more progress made tomorrow.  'Tis coming along though.

If the Camaro is Lemons bound, leave it yellow and make it a Gumball Rally Z28.  Just dress up like Gary Busey and scream constantly.

Got some progress made tonight.

Cut rust out with the plasma, now to get it blasted, and start patching.

Also had to cut some access panels to get the front leaf braket's locknuts, which were just spinning inside the unibody.  Finally got it out, check out this cutting edge technology right here. 40 Year old rusty nuts kept getting caught in my sockets though was kinda annoying

And here's where we're at.  Not one bolt left on the unibody.  Need to blast/prime this thing, kinda wanna dip it but don't know where to go.

Gotta lot of work ahead here.  Movin' along slowly but surely.

Haha, you're younger than my Camaro!

The Brat's been chillin, but finally found a BUNCH of spare stuff for it for a killer deal last night, so will have some updated on that soon, and finally a tranny to put in.

Said goodbye to the Camaro today for about a week.  They said they wanted to wait till the weather was perfect to do everyting so I just dropped it and told them I wasn't in a hurry.

At the blasting place.  Guy on the Tractor's name is Bubba.  Bubba has a 1st, 2nd, AND 3rd gen camaro rotting away outside at his blasting place.

Bubba's office is an old school bus.

Bubba is my hero.

Sew, a needle pulling thread, been pretty eventful last couple days, here are highlights and some pics.

- Finished notching the floorboards on the s13.  I can now turn my head all the way around, look every direction, move as much as possible and still fit my hand between the helmet and cage.  It is awesome.  I tried to make it more asthetically smooth but then decided that it is a racecar, and I don't care.  Interior is done until cage is installed, which is awesome.

- Started redoing my S13 dash, had one that was cracked really bad, so i removed all the fake leather stuff, and added America's favorite material for quality body work, BONDO on it, sanded most of it off today and it filled in 99% of the stuff, so I'm gonna plaster some more on and then sand that off and it should be ready for a super professional spray paint job, because this car is only getting the best.

- Needed to buy some trailer locks, stumbled upon this recently opened trailer place in town near my house, and noticed they had jeep style trailer fenders...20 bux later I had the beginnings of our DTM aero/fender flares for the brat.

- Car topped out at 140 today, so I went to Harry's Speed Shop and got some NOS. 

- Helper springs (Airbags) for the truck came in today, so need to throw those on.

- Got my Ingersoll 231c PATRIOT EDITION in couple days ago, its heavy, and solid metal the way America should be.

- Got a new sound system from my friend Jonathan, so now I can listen to loud music with quality

- Got the trailer mostly de-stickered

- Unloaded the FC I picked up and now have three spare engines for the Brat, and two spare transmissions.

- Got a sandblaster, its awesome, and makes a huge mess.

I think thats about it.  Been working on random cars a lot so had some money to spend which was nice, although I'd rather be at school this semester.

Here are some random pics of crap I've done in the last week:

Still need a LOT of trimming/fitment and have to build some stuff for them and cut the back off, but this is this basic idea.

Dash how I left it last night, now its all flat again, hopefully one more bondo plastering will do the trick.

In all of its hammered to hell before being replaced or neglected glory:

the car stuff looks good but your diet leaves much to be desired....I'm guessing you're in your 20's. On the other hand, get it in now, because it ain't forever!

What booth will you be in?