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02-27-2014, 07:19 PM #21
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These headers sit tight against the floor. Check out the ground clearance. NICE!
The factory only welded the tubes to the flange on one side. I even found pin holes in the weld. So I did some welding of my own.
My welds added for strength.
welded the pass side 02 bung on.
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02-27-2014, 07:24 PM #22
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The AC box needed cut to clear the header tube. It's hard to see in this pic but I cut a piece out of the box closest to the header tube.
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02-27-2014, 07:27 PM #23
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Well that's about it recently. I started running the wire harness too. Looks like I need to mount the inner fenders and mock up a mount for the ECM. I haven't forgot about ya'll I'm just slow.
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07-13-2014, 06:58 PM #24
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Well I am slow. Had to work on the wife's car and other things cam up but got some more done on the TA and garage. I removed the rear end from the car and replaced the leaf spring bushings and rear shackles with some HD parts.
Had to drop the tank AGAIN!
lowered the rear out of the car.
Broke it down for paint prep and new bushings.
Hit it with a wire wheel.
Some black paint.
Removed old bushings and installed new ones.
All painted and new HD rear shakles with new bushings installed ready to roll back under the car.
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07-13-2014, 07:11 PM #25
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The garage is coming along too. Had some Veteran buddies help do the sheet rock on the ceiling and a little wiring.
in one weekend we got the ceiling sheet rocked and all the lights installed and rough wired in place!
got the insulation put in the walls.
Even got the wife out there installing sheet rock on the walls.
Got this spaghetti mess finished today. didn't take pics though.
Next gotta run power cable from the breaker box in the house to the breaker box in the garage. Then mud, tape, and paint the walls. After painting the walls I'm gonna stop on the garage build and focus only on the TA.
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07-14-2014, 06:20 AM #26
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Excellent write up man... its a slow process..esp when ur juggling multiple cars and a garage build... keep up the great work on all ur projects!!!
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07-14-2014, 01:06 PM #27
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Glad you are making progress, it will be worth all of the hard work when it's done. I have been working on my garage project also but I am not nearly as far along as you are.
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07-14-2014, 02:12 PM #28
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07-14-2014, 05:36 PM #29
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As a recent electrician apprentice I can say hats off to u for wiring all that ur self. Hope u ran 12 gauge wire for all the heavy duty machines you'll surely be using in the shop. Would have taken my crew about 3-4 10 hour days to do that start to finish. I wish I had own big of shop!
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07-16-2014, 08:13 PM #30
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Thanks, Ya the wire is 12-2 for all the outlets and lights all have 20 Amp breakers. I ran two 220volt outlets to each back corner too. Only thing left to wire is the feeder line from the house breaker box to the new shop breaker box. I have the ditch dug too just need to figure out what size feeder wire I should run.
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