AAAHHH!! I'm never going to get any more substantial time to work on my car! Geez, the phone won't stop ringing, my friends came over...

I've been postponing something that I probably should've taken care of early, and that's dropping the fuel tank. And it's full.. So I was able to get that done tonight, and the old crap in there smells HORRIBLE!! Anyway, here are some pics:

My father is a tree-trunk of a man... 6'5" 365lbs, and he's not fat... However, there aren't many bodyweight-supporting exercise machines that he trusts, so he built himself a dip bar. He used to be a welder and steel worker for Chicago Bridge Inc, so when he builds something, he goes all out, and the things you see supporting the back of my car are the dip bar he built, which he later gave me. I separated them, and after this task, they'll become my homemade engine hoist...









Both of the front cradle mounts have little slices in them... I'm not sure what they're from though; it's a little confusing. It's not rusted through, but more like cuts... These aren't good images of them. I took some close-ups, but they didn't come out very well because my camera hates me. I'll post some better ones later.





Tank's out:





Stripping the rear side of the firewall. Got most of the crap off.




EDIT: pwnin teh page...

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I spent most of today cleaning up the shop. I took the front wheels off the car, flipped it up on it's side, and moved it against the far wall in my garage. I don't have any pics of that right now, because I was in the zone, but I'll get some up later. After that, I decided it was time to separate the engine from the tranny... except I need an engine hoist. I'm broke, but I happen to have a welder and some steel... So I got to work hacking up the dip bar that was holding up my car in the previous post, and then I started mapping it out and cutting my pieces.
With my tiny Wal-Mart welder (which I'm very grateful for), I kept overheating it and sending into protect (cooldown) mode trying to penetrate this 1/8" box steel. So, I took an hour or so and installed a fan in it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I voided my warranty, but I was surprised... it didn't go into protection even once after that!
And as you can see in the images after installing the fan, I smoked up the garage pretty good.























My plan is to have the floor jack for normal usage, and then place it in the engine hoist when I want to use the hoist. It's difficult to see in the pics, especially since I'm not done yet, but the jack will have it's own track and notch to sit in so it doesn't go anywhere. Yeah, I suck at thick vertical welds, but I'm working on it. There will be a bar that will fit snugly in the hole of the jack that normally holds the cup, so there's no slippage there either. That bar will bolt in at the top, and stay on the lifting arm. Also, when I get closer to completion with it, I'm going to weld some nice hefty casters on the bottom of it.
Anyway, let me know what you think so far... I'll have better images as I make more progress...

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Journal of a concept: http://southeastfieros.com >>> Build Thread >>> Parts thread (for project funding)

just caught this thread great work btw i guess with all the work ive been doing i could document a build thread but im anal about pictures so it would be in great detail and end up takeing up bandwith(sigh). out of all th forums im in this is has the best people around.

btw off topic is that the same welder that wal mart sells for like 100 if so hows it working out.

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she is now yellow =) and shes a fastback

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