LS1 Drift Build 'Nuff Said'

[cbeebz]

Sooo... Update?!

[fuhfuh.Focus]

Incredible build so far.

Also those memes are hilarious.

In for more updates.

[MommysLittleMonster]

[Royal_T]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is to funny... You guys are the best... lol... Going to save all of those..

Okay boys and guys, its pic time.. So this past weekend I went to go pick up my car from UpRev, from all the FAB work being done.. Cage, front tube chassis, Radiator ducting and much more... I love the work that Russell did and highly recommend him to anyone that needs any FAB work done on their car.

Now it sucked driving back cause it started to rain, tried to cover the car with a car cover so must of the exposed metal did not get rain on it.. But **** happens and water got on some of the metal so have to clean the rust off before paint..

I will add a drink later, at work so I forgot to upload a beer for the week..

On to the pic 80+ of them....lol



So my baby is finally home and ready for tea down so I can start getting her ready for paint...



mean mugging already...



Showing the Splitter from underneath..



Even my dog approves....lol



Yeah def going to be changing out the yellow for RED...



So I placed my old bumper on there to see what it would look like since I am bouncing around the idea of both bumpers. I think it looks good also.



And yes it is beat up a lot... But this just give you an idea how it would look.



Looks so mean..









Russell added some extra support bars to the bottom of the tube chassis.. No moving here..



Anther view of the bottom bracket support tube



PS Cooler mounted up and ready to rock



Its small but its all I need





Def going to change this to Red..



Hood pins installed, just awaiting my new hood



Here is my Headlight brackets, Russell did a pretty cool job on them.



another look



Good by ABS system.. Why? "Because Race Car!!!"



T fitting for the front brakes




Here is a pic of my Tank that will run all my coolant lines..












Door bars.... Now i have to remove all the stuff from the door and make some custom Carbon Fiber covers.. going to look good





Love this view. You get an idea of how everything looks..



Russell add these bars to protect my little/big head... lol



Base plate for door bars and front hoop





Base plate for main hope and door bars



Its a party over here.....lol



Rear base plate



dash Bar complete need to trim dash some but you get the idea





Pic of the ASD Hydro mounted



Hydro all wired up



The T for the rear brake lines. I love that they run through the cab. Easy fix when something goes wrong



Sits a lot lower then my old bride rails did and I love it..





Man looks so legit from this view



I really did not get a chance to showcase the Ron Davis Radiator so here are some pics..











Ron Davis knows their stuff and it shows with the 35 years of experience





Radiator Ducting looks so legit







Here is the splitter, kind of dirty now due to the rain, but will be painted black anyways.. Also I am going to make a ton of copies of this just in case I F it up..

Thinking of doing a alumacore one and a CF honeycomb splitter..







Splitter bracket. also have about 4 other mounting point..





Head lights out..



BAM!! ready to take out engine again, but first I have to run my throttle cable to check length.. That will be next week.



Again here is a shot of the Headlight brackets.. love the wholes...lol


Okay now for what everyone has been waiting for the price break down for all of this. Now remind you this price can change do to metal prices, your build labor price, and if you get a hook up.. just so you know.

Formula Drift 1.5x.095 Wall Legal Cage 2011 $1200

Dashboard Fitting/Installation $0

Additional Bars (partial sponsorship) $110

Remove Rear Parcel Shelf $300

Front Tube Frame $850

Powersteering Cooler Bracket/Install $0

Ron Davis Radiator (partial sponsorship $600


Radiator Ducting $200

Radiator Installation / Fabrication $50

Coolant Expansion Tank inc fittings/filler neck $300

OMP Tow Hook $40

Hydraulic Handbrake Fabrication $125

Driver side Seat Bracket $175

AN Brake Line Installation $250

AN Line Materials Hardline + Soft Line + Fittings $150


TOTAL $4350

Total price so far: $14,447.16

[D.Brown]

Great progress man, can't wait to see this thing when its done with paint.

[FunfGang]

Well here goes the rest of my day... Time to read this.

[stricker]

What else to say then fucking awesome !!!

[Obscevator]

éverything on this thing looks soo sick!

[Mark Ostrowski]

fucking beautiful.

yeah i was gonna suggest for the splitter, it would be really easy to make some cf ones...like in a day or two...

just get a piece of glass/polished metal, wax it up like 10 times, lay down some epoxy resin (can't be polyester, epoxy eventually yellows in the sun, but it is like 10x stronger than polyester for bonding the fibers) lay your cf over it. brush on 2ish more coats onto the back. let dry. pop off, cut out template w/ dremmel and flip to side that was touching glass and BAM! brand new super light/strong splitter.

i'm running out of cf but when i order some more thats what im doing for mine

[DDM]

Looks super good man! This is going to be awesome!
About the rear brake lines going through the cabin though... isn't that a little dangerous?
I mean there's a lot off pressure in those lines and I don't think you want to be anywhere near them when they rip/snap(like in a crash or something). There would be brake fluid all over the cabin...
I don't know, maybe a lot of racecars are running this setup, just seems dangerous to me...
Maybe I'm just being a sissy, let me know haha!

[MommysLittleMonster]

Those welds on the rollcage scare me. I worked/welded at a shop that built race cars, and these welds WOULD NOT fly. They're a bunch of small spotwelds that are stitched together. Whoever was welding wasn't very sure of himself, or they don't know the "half-moon" method of welding DOM tubing.

[DCJodon]

Keeps getting better, lol I promise I won't keep spamming with the memes.

[Youngthugga]

God I love this build! I'm really interested in the splitter, could you extend it back and use it as a skid plate as well? I'm not really sure if you have any clearance issues to deal with.

[Torben DH]

Those welds on the rollcage scare me. I worked/welded at a shop that built race cars, and these welds WOULD NOT fly. They're a bunch of small spotwelds that are stitched together. Whoever was welding wasn't very sure of himself, or they don't know the "half-moon" method of welding DOM tubing.

I was thinking about those rollcage welds all they look BAD!

Otherwise the car is fenomenal!

[martinm13]

adding to the welding discussion;



the blackened paint is not very good either. looks like the dude who did the fabrication for you didn't remove the paint before he welded it. i think this is bad for 2 reasons.
1. it looks unprofessional
2. it makes the weld weaker because its contaminated (porous welds = weak joints)

everything else you are doing looks top notch, but if i had paid for that cage i wouldn't be happy