Re: Building a 72' Duster for my wife
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Happy Wife Happy Life!! Awesome fab skills
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Re: Building a 72' Duster for my wife
[Re: Forest]
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Very nice, it will be a solid bracket car.
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Re: Building a 72' Duster for my wife
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Very nice, it will be a solid bracket car. Thank you, that's what I wanted a nice safe car my wife and kids eventually can all learn to race in. I'd be happy to drive it! I'll keep the post updated as we finish putting the car together.
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Re: Building a 72' Duster for my wife
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Very nice work. Two things that need to be addressed, are the ladder bar front heims need a safety strap/loop, and that 8 3/4 needs a back brace. Without a back brace it WILL bend the axle tubes outside the ladder bar mounts. Been there, done that.
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Re: Building a 72' Duster for my wife
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Very nice work. Two things that need to be addressed, are the ladder bar front heims need a safety strap/loop, and that 8 3/4 needs a back brace. Without a back brace it WILL bend the axle tubes outside the ladder bar mounts. Been there, done that. I agree. Those bars look like Chris Alston's bars - mine came with a strap that needed to be welded on.
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Re: Building a 72' Duster for my wife
[Re: DusterKid]
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Looks great and awesome workmanship as usual. I am sure she will quite happy with her first racecar.
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Re: Building a 72' Duster for my wife
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Very nice work. Two things that need to be addressed, are the ladder bar front heims need a safety strap/loop, and that 8 3/4 needs a back brace. Without a back brace it WILL bend the axle tubes outside the ladder bar mounts. Been there, done that. Yes I have the safety straps, just need to get them on before we take the car to the track...
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Re: Building a 72' Duster for my wife
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Nice work, Forest, I see you also stretched the wheel wells. I think your 8-3/4 will be fine since you added that stiffening bar between the shock mounts. Yeah the wheel wells are kinda rough...they were like that when I bought the car. Same with the mini tubs. We'll see what the car turns into as she gains experience. It will probably get a 9" sometime in the near future...
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Re: Building a 72' Duster for my wife
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Is that cage a kit or a home built thing? I love it, seems way easier to build the front bars into the upper door bars than the way my cage builder did it.
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Re: Building a 72' Duster for my wife
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I custom bent everything Well my next cage guy is gonna see these pics, the setup I have currently was a pain in the [censored] to weld. I see the cage was partially assembled how well did it go into the car like that?
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Re: Building a 72' Duster for my wife
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I custom bent everything Well my next cage guy is gonna see these pics, the setup I have currently was a pain in the [censored] to weld. I see the cage was partially assembled how well did it go into the car like that? Obviously the dash is out. I got the front 1/2 out easy enough. The rear 1/2 with the rear halo was a little harder. I ended up taking the passenger side door off to get it to come out assembled. I know it sounds like a lot but its worth it to get nice welds and paint sprayed all the way around the tubes...
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Re: Building a 72' Duster for my wife
[Re: Forest]
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Lexan looks good! Nice work as always
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