Alf

Looks good, the only thing I can see is that it may be a tad top heavy, but that shouldn't be a problem unless you really crank on it. Nice work.

Try calling some local realtors and ask if there are any local garages for rent. That's what l did last year when l came back to college. I used to have a storage space and then they said no more working on cars, so I found a real garage in town for only 20 more dollars a month and it's insulated and wired.

This is a good idea, it's nice to put faces to the names. Some of you probably already have seen pictures of me in my build thread but here's some more. I had to get a picture with my new 27's Me and my awesome girlfriend Elvis lip

Update #17 10/8/07 Greetings all, I'm back with another update, the truth is l wrote this about two weeks ago, hit submit, and poof it disapeard. Thats what you get when your school has crappy internet. So I finally finished welding the tubes on the body and I did some other stuff too, it's really starting to take shape. Pictures bellow tell the story. I really was getting tired of seeing a chunk out of the drivers side door area, so I decided it was time to fix it. I clamped this aluminum up and ground it straight. That looks much better. Then I made my patch panel and clamped it in place. This is it after many many tack welds, looks ugly as hell but it works. Ground down and painted, looks much better. I got real bored one day and I didn't have any cutting discs, so I turned to the lower radiator hose. I used the 300ZX pipe, which I shortened with a hacksaw, and part of the bracket. You can see the giant chain link I used to extend the bracket, use what you got. Then I started to think how tight the shoulder area was so I decided to make a little more room. I moved the upper door bar out about an inch on each side and trimmed the door pillar. Here you can see the before shot. Before After This is what I cut out from that modification. Less and less of the original body is making it into the final product. Then I got really bored and covered the cowl with cereal boxes to see how it would look. I'm pretty happy with it, it seems to flow. Glamour shots Looking good so far. Well that's all folks. Right now I'm working on the firewall, I'm using the original just narrowed. I'll be posting more pics soon so stay tuned. Thanks for looking. Alf

Update #16 9/8/07 Howdy, Back again with yet another update to the saga that is the VG hot rod. Just lately I've been getting back to working on the rod regularly and it's been quite productive. Some friends and I took the ride up to KC last weekend to check out the Goodguys car show. I've never been to one and it was interesting to say the least, it gave me some motivation and most importantly ideas. Check out the progress below. This was the most prominent idea I got from the show, a U bolt steering arm. I had been wondering how Iwas going to fab up an arm and my plan was to bend some round bar and weld some threaded studs to the end, but no matter how thick the bar was the weak ling would be the welded small diameter studs. After I welded on some stop nuts, a plate gusset, and the tapered bung for the tie rod this is what it looked like. Should be plenty strong and it saved me some time, like they say; work smarter not harder. I had to scower the ends of the earth to find a pair of matching 16" 6 lug steel wheels to fit the Pathfinder rear, as you can see by the tire, these are old as dirt. Me and my room mate took a trip to a nearby junk yard and found these, among other things. This is one of the other things I bought from the junk yard, it's a 30's Chevy grill shell. As soon as we got back I tried to pop my new grill shell over the Mustang radiator, but it was too narrow, so I broke out the cutting wheel and chopped it up. After exploring my options I ended up with this configuration mainly because it was the easiest not to screw up. All I had to do to make this look right was fill in the pie shaped section and make some relief cuts and angle the sides down. This is how it looked after I tacked it together after bending the sides straight. After doing some trimming I threw it on there to check fit, looks good so far. Cut myself a slice of steel pie to fill in the gaps and tacked it in place. Once I was done welding, bending, trimming, hammering, and grinding it came out like this. Stand back and appreciate. I still have to mount it but I saved that for another night. That's all I got for now, but steering proggress should be coming up next, check back later for more updates. Till next time. Thanks for looking. Alf