BBR's 545 83GT..... it is alive

[Brian Lohnes]

Never knew AAM had a performance division!

[STINEY]

Don't ya just love getting cool stuff shipped to you at work? Our days are never better than when someone gets something non-work related and cool delivered to work.......

well, there was that one exception that involved a birthday and a stripper.......

Nice Shaft! :o

[BBR]

haha yeah, between me and one of my drafters, we have pretty much had enough parts delivered to our office to build a couple of cars now.

It had the race dates and McGill written on it. Best part was the price: $90 + shipping.

[DanStokes]

Good price! While I don't remember the $$ I know I paid more for my FMPP aluminum shaft in the 'Stang. Clearly, I got the shaft! (had to say it.....)

Dan

[1988montecarloss]

haha yeah, between me and one of my drafters, we have pretty much had enough parts delivered to our office to build a couple of cars now.

It had the race dates and McGill written on it. Best part was the price: $90 + shipping.

where did you buy it from?

website?

[BBR]

I got it from Musclemotorsports on ebay.

[BBR]

I was looking at the radiator/fan situation this weekend. If I lower the radiator approx 1", everything will fit super duper.

So I have decided to chop off the lower core support and replace it with a fabricated one. This is win-win because I like to build stuff and the lower core support is really mangled from someone hooking a tow hook to it once.

Maybe I can get to fabricating it this evening.

Also, on that driveshaft I bought, they saw fit to glue the snap rings in. I like to have never got them out.

[BBR]

Driveshaft is in! It fit like a glove. Pinion angle is good at -3.5 degrees.

Sawed off the lower radiator support and started working on a new one, but.... and this always seems to happen.... I ran out of welding wire. Crap!

Oh well, it will give me some time to double-think the support I was making. haha

[BBR]

Worked on the lower support last night. Pretty much just need to add some lower mounts for the radiator and I'm done. FYI, Team-Z sells one of these if you do not want to make one.

2" square tube ends fit nicely up inside of old core support and butt against the front bumper 'shocks'. It looks wonky in the pic for some reason.


I will attach the lower bumper cover to it with some gigantic zip ties.






I tried to bend the tubing I had with a hydraulic bender. That was a total fail. I kind of expected it though. I think I will add a small gusset to those lower bends just to be safe.

[Tom Slick]

the 2" - is that more of the go kart supply? That's awesome. I love to see stuff repurposed.

I stopped calling the HF thing they refer to as a "bender" an actual bender. I call mine "Crusher". The next time I try to do thinwall anything, I think I'll tack some bench weights (gym stuff) to the welding table and try that instead. I think you can fill it with sand and heat it a little (leave a steam hole in cork from what I remember.) then bend it. fwiw... read it in some really old build your own minibike book.