Davegerous E21

[Dave-ger]

Update:




I figure I might as well at least clean up the engine bay a bit more and make it all the same color while I'm at this.

[AndreasW]

White on blue looks awsome!

[Dave-ger]

thanks man.


Slow progress with the weather and other things I've had to do and/or wanted to do, but the chassis repair is near completion, then I'll be on to these things:

fill in un needed holes in the engine bay
paint the engine bay
repair sub frame (shouldn't be too hard)
put the engine back in and get it running
make bracketry for skid plate and build a skid

then I'm back in business!

look how overkill this is! My crumple zones are ruined!

[Funtington]

crumple zones crumble bones shumple dones mumple hones.

[boostAbear]

Love this, one of my favorite builds on here.

[Dave-ger]

thanks lad, I try to keep it fun.

[Dave-ger]

Took care of the gap up front between the old and new frame rails:


Forgive the welds, it was a funny angle!


about as shaven as it's going to get.



because I'm lazy, I cut the hose ends off the heater core and went ahead and covered the hole. looks better than it did with the unused heater core sticking out at least.

the car caught on fire inside a few times. O0

anyways, I'm close to rattle canning the bay. I might make it look even better later on, but that's the beauty of rattle can. I can just go in, change things later, and patch it up with matching paint.

[Volvosome]

you and i have the same problem sir. raised oil pan=exposed subframe and steering rack waiting to be owned by raised manhole covers. im doing a skid plate asap

[Dave-ger]

yea, I think I will do a full skid, or at least make the entire front of the sub frame angle up so it won't snag as easily.

You've really got to watch it on those volvo's, my friend snagged his sub frame on his 245 on rail road tracks and barely got the car off the tracks. the sub frame was totally jacked. Easier to fix than my frame rails though!

I think he had his diff welded at that time too, so you can imagine how badly he was stuck.

[Volvosome]

oh yes i can imagine haha. ya i am going to make a ski plate that looks kind of like this ____/ protecting the subframe and steering rack and what not so that if i hit something it will sort of deflect it and slide over

[Dave-ger]

yea, I think that's a good idea, kind of what I had in mind for my car.

[kartikeya]

This is great, really great. Definitely one of my favourite things here. I absolutely love all the fabrication, plus the fact that you're taking some really novel approaches.

[Dave-ger]

thanks chap!


Got a little done today, the front skid plate mounts are done!

[340i]

nice work!

[Dave-ger]

thanks






planning to make some covers for the crevasses that are on either side of the rain tray soon to make it look a bit cleaner.