Yesterday at work I machined my factory tow hooks to accept the chromoly bar for my new crossmember. I machined a 1.5" (38.1mm) counterbore 3mm deep with a nice big chamfer for welding (I bet you guy have no idea what I just said
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Anyway, I managed to turn the counterbore on the wrong side on one of them (they should be mirrored, not identical) so I drilled it right through. Not really what I wanted to do but meh, would have prefer both of them to spigot.
Anyhow got them home last night and cut the 1.5" chromoly to length, bolted the brackets in, fed the bar through the bracket with the hole into the other brackets counterbore and tack welded both of them.
I didn't take any photos during the work...
*runs outside to take a picture*
But here it is:
Now there's still lots of work to be done, such as fabricating the new trailing arms which involves brackets, rose joints and 3/4" chromoly as well as some more parts to be machined at work.
Mounted to this as well is the intercooler which will be mounted using, once again, 3/4" chromoly and some aluminium + steel parts.
Trust me it'll all make sense when you see the pictures.
After that I'll give it to my mate would will go over the whole lot and tig weld everything so it's nice and strong and look sex. Then a lick of paint and it's on with the next job!
I don't know what the next job will be actually. If I get the money then I will buy the turbo and I will begin fabbing the manifold. If not, then it will be a spool to replace the factory open differential.
So at the moment I'm working on removing the gearbox so I can take the diff out to measure everything up (such as bearing diameters, crown wheel sizing etc etc) and draw it up, order some 2767 steel machine it and then maybe get it heat treated.
