BrownCloud Peking To Paris 912

[Franz]

#53089

Cleaned welding spatter this morning, fit the battery for the last time, made 10 tunnel gussets, and welded longitudinal to tubes. Getting there.

[Franz]

#53107

Got the gussets from Pacific steel this morning, cut out of .120@ cold roll plate👌They were not happy about programming 30 3” triangles on the plasma table….but that doesn’t matter, we got the parts and can continue with progress.

[Andym]

#53112

That’s gravy money cutting those.

looks good franz. The roll cage you/Pat have built looks great. Car is gonna look sick rolling down the street all caged up

[Franz]

#53117

Yep. Final welding the whole front end. Bouncing around, keeping the heat concentrated, and using much spray weld to avoid spatter.

[ColeB]

#53120

Damn that’s tasty!

[Rustabus]

#53123

Hope Team Bradburn sp? hucks this thing off some bumps!!!!👍👍👍👍

[ColeB]

#53148

Can’t wait to get off-road with it. Sounds like Franz will be head suspension tester;) haha with me as co tester. We will get it dialed

[Franz]

#53168

[ColeB]

#53169

Great technical briefing this morning! Answered a lot of questions. Getting real. Here is the route they are trying for in 2022. More south this year 👍🏼Weight is your enemy! Haha

[MikeK]

#53171

Especially with a 1600.

[Franz]

#53188

We’re making an extra tall stock type jack. I found some 7/8” 4130 chromoly @ McMaster Carr to use.

I’m going to weld pins at the C pilar mounts to drop the jack on and provide bracing for the very rear of the chassis…

We’ll want to take full advantage of this storage area in the engine bay for heavy items + handling characteristics.

More gusset welding,

Torsion housing/hoop/B pilar.

[Rustabus]

#53205

Seems like weight is the enemy? Is there anything stock that goes away like door panels?? Do you drill out holes in places you don’t need?

[Pat K]

#53223

WELD IT!!!!!

We will build it if it comes.

[Rustabus]

#53235

Obviously it’s BadAss, but heavier or lighter than stock??? Sneak in a bunch of weight holes?????

[Franz]

#53238

The idea is to make it stronger than stock. Maybe a little heavier where it counts. 😉

The last gussets are tacked. Welding in the morning.

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