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    Floor Pan questions

    in Fabrication / Welding

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    GMAC,

    what was your method of re-attaching them properly? The only way that I could think of getting them aligned right would be to use the seat bracket itself, was this what you did?

     

    I'm thinking of just lifting the replacement pan up from the bottom and welding it from there, so I don't have to cut out the seat brackets... but if it's not that hard to get the brackets lined up, I might try your method. What would you recommend?

     

    I got the Bad Dog seat brackets along with the frame rails. I think you could salvage the old ones. I would attach to seat and tack weld them in place. You could also make a fixture to hold them parallel. I measured stock seat attachment to stock tracks at 12 7/8 wide and 12 5/8 front to back measured at the hole center. Once you decide where to put the forward mounts, the rears are pretty easy.

    I ended up cutting the BD seat brackets (forward and aft) down about 1 inch to gain some extra headroom. Here is picture of rear bracket and how much I cut off. You could do the same with the stock brackets too.

    6-14-09003.jpg

    I made my seat tracks from Jegs kit. I wanted dual locking tracks (required for some racing and not a bad idea) but did not like the Jegs cable system that came in kit. The arm had to be on the outside of seat to pull cable.

    6-21-09015.jpg

    so...I made it have a push rod instead. Now the arm is in the center.

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    Mounted to seat...

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    Removed from seat and attached to floor mounts and tack welded...

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    I had spacers from stock seats on top for more room. I ended up removing them but you could always use them for fine tuning the angle of the seat. Those things are very handy.

    Seat attached...

    6-21-09024-1.jpg

    Hope this helps. Not that hard at all :mrgreen:

    Gord

    Same side inlet & outlet end tank radiator

    in Nissan RB Forum

    Posted

    A radiator with inlet and outlet on same side and cooling passages that run side to side is called a double pass radiator. The end tank with the inlet and outlet on it has an internal wall seperating the top and bottom. The only way the water can flow, is to pass across the core to the opposite tank, then pass back across to the other outlet (double pass).

     

    See the welded section on R/H side below shows the seperation.

     

    I think the water would simply bypass the core unless you seperated the two outlets. Maybe your on to something...a double "bypass"...:mrgreen:

     

     

    randys-racemart_2070_27945732.jpg

     

    Gord

    Floor Pan questions

    in Fabrication / Welding

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    I used a lap joint around the perimeter of the floor pan.

     

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    The etching and primer is done, now I will use a two part mix seam sealer.

     

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    3M makes a few different kinds of sealer, the application gun and nozzles look a little expensive. I also have access to a few two part sealers that are used in the aviation industry. I might end up using that.

    Floor Pan questions

    in Fabrication / Welding

    Posted

    The Bad Dog (BD) are bigger and fit over stock or Zedd frame rails.

    Here is picture of BD over stock. I chose to leave out the stock / Zedd and just go with the BD.

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    Here are some photo's during the install of the Bad Dog frame rails.

     

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    Hope this helps

    Floor Pan questions

    in Fabrication / Welding

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    Seriously. gmac708, why did you replace them? It doesn't look like there's anything wrong with them. The new floors do look good though, good job.

     

    Well...

    They did have a few holes in them, some areas were pretty thin. It looked like the floors rusted from the inside-out. It might have been moisture from wet carpet or something. The photo's don't really show it and I never took any pictures specifically of it. I did stare at them for quite a while, trying to figure the easiest way out, eventually figured, WTF ?!?! I planned on adding the Bad Dog frame rails because of the RB swap, it didn't seem like that much more work to replace the floors.

     

    It really isn't that hard to do. (except for the burning skin and hair from welding upside-down) :mrgreen:

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