Building Custom Shock Towers for my 1966 Ford mustang
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2020
- Welcome back to the channel in today's video We Are Building Custom shock Towers for my 1966 Ford mustang . Enjoy!
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Doesn't matter how young or old you are. When your dad gives you an ego boost, it puts a big smile on your face and a spring in your step.
Fun fact: Goonzquads father and VTUNED father are brothers .
Get outta here!? Lol
Did not know that. Interesting
Seems like it to be fair. Too much of a coincidence
I've heard Goonzquad and Vtuned are cousins, so "that's legit duuuuuude" 😄
Look like twins.
Safety glasses are must for me. It's not fun having a sliver of steel removed from your eye. Take my word for it.
The pain of it happening along with the continued migraine is awful, but then how they remove it from your eye is horrifying. Happened to me while walking past roadworks, didn't even realise it happened, until the pain still didn't go away days later.
Wear protection!
I think he knows what he's doing. Let him learn.
First, your eyeball doesn't feel anything. It has NO nerves. It is all the tissue around it. My brother had a paintball hit his eye years ago and it detached his retina. he had surgery and his Doctor told him this. So does GLASS and Gas hurt. Had both in my eyes before. Learned a valuable lesson about using SAFTEY GLASSES!!!
I've had to have things removed from my eyes even USING safety glasses....I was cutting concrete one time and couldn't react quick enough and I saw a small piece of grit fly up, bounce off my cheek, bounce off the inside of my safety glasses and into my eye. It was stuck so I couldn't rinse it out, had to make a quick dash to the clinic....dye drops to highlight debris and he found it right away and a flick of a swab and it was out. I've also had to have small pieces of rusty metal removed, they used a magnet that time.
I had cataract surgery on both eyes, now THAT'S a bizarre experience all around and the doc was a freaking butcher.....
Bruce Shepherd keep a good powerful magnet in your shop, wrap a thin T-shirt material around it and when you get a piece of metal in it just touch it to your eye and save a trip to the ER or just a lot of pain. Guarantee it works great. Wet the material first.
I'd love to see a collab with vTuned and his pops on this build. Father and son. It would be great!
I like the initiative, You're doing something that so many people wouldn't even try... More power to ya
I mean how the hell do you know that.
David Newhard how the hell do you know that it isn’t ?
Maybe cause it’s a waste of money time and unsafe for it to not be street legal idk
Swampass you’re illegal lmao
FBI what?
Having read the comments have to agree, this young man cannot be faulted for his work effort and skill sets to date , just because you have the ability to know where to kick something to make it work does not mean you understand the forces applied, that give you that . Instead of kicking this guy for his short fallings in being able to mathematically work out lateral forces and moments of force etc etc etc, explain in layman’s terms that if you try to put this amount of horsepower and weight through the gut felt correct way he is doing it it’s going to be a train wreak . I have the utmost time and respect for him and would be proud to be able to help rather than as some of you are doing just kicking the guy stand up or ship out
Michael Rangeley I second this
Couldn't have said it better!!
Glad to see you're stepping up your game is far as tools go. I'm not bashing on Harbor Freight, as they actually do pretty good for a lot of their stuff. It's just that you guys have obviously progressed to a point well beyond what they can provide as far as fabrication tools go.
Half hr goes just like that huh? Feels like 5 mins tops
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Hell yeah! vTuned time! Who else agrees that this guy is a bodywork genius!
Me
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This isn’t bodywork
@@BrandonDKirkwood 😆
Nope. If you saw the welds on that ram and knew anything about bodywork you wouldn't say any such thing.
VTUNED has skills and im confident he can see this to completion. Keep going bud. Looks great,
This mustang is going to be a beast when it's done. You are gaining so much knowledge and experience trying this out! I love this build series!
If I shipped you some nice anti fog safety glasses would you wear them? haha
Yeah go ahead and ship him some he’ll wear them.
Dad: "I think will be good"
Me: "Well thats all that matters, lets do the other side"
🤣😂👍
Vtuned, if that is ultra high strength steel (typically 22MnB5 boron steel) for the shock tower cap, it is a beast. I am in the business we will say......The manufactures that use this type of steel has to use lasers to cut all the holes after it is drawn on the hot stamping dies due to the severe strength, it breaks/wears out the punch dies within a couple tries. I am not a fabricator or a chassis engineer, but the last thing you will do is rip that steel, the mating steels will fail or the welds, but not high strength steel. Take a file and see if you can cut the steel and compare vs some mild steel, you should see a very noticeable difference. You shouldn't be able to do much of anything if that is 22MnB5. Don't let the keyboard warriors place doubt in what your doing. Just do your own research and keep on posting videos, love the channel.
Your balls deep in brass soup but the willpower of youth and not worrying how many engineers it took to make a original frame. Your past experience in lining up rigs can't hurt either. You know that one of the greatest engineers in the whole world, and father of this creation.. Henry said: Whether you think you can or you think you can't.... your right. I know that this will work as nothing is set in stone till the final coat of paint is on and your driving it. I got out of my comfort zone when I did a graft from new to old on a ford as well as I put a king ranch interior and the wiring in a 76 f250 highboy right down to the dash and it had to get help with all the radio and electronics .... I didn't get perfect and it would embarrass me when I turned something on and it didn't happen but I got a 98 % on all the stuff installed and looking like it belonged there. I know now that the rig your fixing can't be in too good of shape as rust was a real enemy and it looked so good to start with that "what could go wrong" kinda did in the command center... I sold to another person who I couldn't hire and he did finish it an a magazine print out... gave me "honorable mention" which is better than lemon soup.
Sometimes you have to learn by just doing it and not giving up. You will be an expert eventually. Keep it up!
That's the reason my dad never let me do nothing, said I had to learn how, my response was always I'll never fucking learn if I dont give er a go
You are so impressively good with tools and fabrication. And what you set out to do is amazingly difficult. Ford had a stable of engineers with experience and access to a tremendous library of car fabrication. You can hardly be expected to do what they had decades to do and millions of dollars to support. I get the feeling that you haven’t planned far enough in advance to accomplish the task you’ve set. But I sure enjoy watching you do it and cannot wait to see the end result.
Best part of VTuned is that, Ben gets to the work immediately. Instead of chit chatting n wasting video length.
It's Gona take alot of trial and error for you to complete this project, but with your work ethic and perseverence you will succeed. 👍👍👍
so much respect to you bro. taking on this learning experience and letting us come for the ride is some legit heart warming content. youll make mistakes and take backward steps but i know without a shadow of a doubt you make this the most well earned epic build of all time. gonna be a legendary build when completed .
I’m probably gonna catch crap for this but what you’re doing / how you are building the chassis is unsafe at best and a disaster waiting to happen at worst.
I’ve been in this industry since graduating Wyotech on March 25th 2005. I’ve worked in many shops and own my own shop so I know a lil bit.
Do NOT use those shock tower apron tops like that! It’s going to rip away where the pipes are welded to the apron.
A unibody car works by using the strength of all the sheet metal parts. While the apron piece is made of two piece of sheet metal it’s not going to be enough in your setup.
You need to use the apron to fabricate some at least quarter inch steel plates that you build into a box.
As for how you are measuring and placing the suspension components in a three dimensional space it’s going to be off no matter how you measure it.
That will lead to a best case scenario of the steering tracking wrong and hopefully just causing rapid tread wear on the tires but is more likely that it will be off enough for the all the stress and forces put on it going down the road cause it to collapse and fold up under the car or splay out and rip apart.
Building a new tube chassis and suspension is not something you can just get kinda close it needs to be exact.
You need to use a chassis jig table. It can be purchased or you can easily build your own. Either way it’s the only safe way to build tube chassis suspension.
I don’t know where you’re located but I could come assist if necessary.
This is life and death please consult a local chassis fab shop. ✌️
Brandon Kirkwood lol finally someone with common sense.
Exactly, I have been dying watching all this eyeballing suspension geometry
Can't be certain, it's out of my lane, but your concern seems reasonable to me. If you're a regular subscriber(like me) why didn't you voice your concerns before now?
Raymond Tucker Jr because I just found the build and channel.
@@BrandonDKirkwood Fair enough. I hope he takes heed....or at least gives it some thought. Be safe.
This is definitely my favorite build so far. Hands down.👍🏾
So easy for everyone to sit back and tell you what they think about this, all these armchair engineers telling you its gonna fall apart.
I don't think its gonna fall apart, I do think if that geometry isn't perfect and you have to move it.. it will be A LOT of rework, but nothing you can't handle. To potentially save some future headaches, you might consider using that other white mustange to build a jig that mounts to both shocktowers and 2 or 3 points of the suspension and engine. Then bolt that jig up to youre parts and you'll know exactly where everything is supposed to go. Just a thought dude.
I also think all these naysayers that are judging before you have even finished re-inforcing just want everyone to know how smart they are.
Keep up the hard work dude, don't let people discourage you, and don't give up.
Can't wait to see what you accomish man & thanks for the content.
I would love to see a fender on there with those bars coming out so far up in the front.
I thought the same thing!
Me too. Looked like they would protrude through the fenders and the engine still looks way too high. It could be just the camera angle though. I would be looking at NASCAR frames because there seems a lot of unnecessary weight which doesn't necessarily equal strength. Steel plates instead of those shock tower caps as well would be better in my opinion.
Me too.. DO OVER
@@TheBartmobile do over over, is there such a thing?
This guy is beyond amazing. So much trial and error and he nails it every time! Bending, cutting, grinding, etc, he has all of the required skills to do an epic job on this Mustang. Keep goin- we will all keep watchin Bro! Cheers to your expertise. WOW!
Vtune is the man! That's one big project to make your own frame & suspension, widen the car & turn it into a fastback! Man this will be one wild ride when it's done!
You will want your shock caps sitting at the exact same relative locations and angles on the your tube framing that they were on the stock mustang for front end alignment. I'm not sure this would work because I haven't tried it but it might be better to get the front end on the wheels, position them for alignment and then weld your caps in solid while holding the wheel alignment so it doesn't move around.
I understand that you're not done cutting in the reinforcing and bracing tubes for bracing on this but the shock caps do need to be welded on all 4 sides so you need tube or plate on all 4 sides. Even with those big frame rails, unless you cross brace them on the inside in addition to the engine cradle well they are going to flex where you have your up tubes. It needs a front engine cross member made out of the same dimension box steel as the frame rails to stabilize the frame rails. The feet of your up tubes need to have plate welded to them and then those plates need to be seam welded inside your frame rails in addition to welding them to the sides of the frame rails. If you don't do that the feet will want to kick out because there is nothing down there holding the bases in place.
Basically, you need to think cage instead of just bars as you are building this. Considering how much power you are planning I think anyway that it needs a full cage architecture.
You may already have planned all this out and just don't have the time to go through it all at once and if so just consider what I wrote to be redundant, LOL. I am glad to see that you got what I call the engine cradle.
It would have been much better and safer if you could just cut the front half of 2015 mustang and use it as it is in 65 mustang
Or just use it as a mockup and than gradually replace some of it with sections more suitable for the ´65 body.
Agree
Harbor freight has left the chat...
calling them garbage was the truest thing I have heard on here.
Should have cut the inner fenders and firewall off in one piece and fit it to the other car . You needed it to use new dash it would have been easier
Agree with you. Just my opinion would have been easer.
@@daniemarais3660 would have aligned (centered) firewall with steering , brake booster. ac. wiring even bottom of windshield and the front of the trans tunnel with the new floor
Such an enjoyable build to watch 😊
Glad you have a Stang to get measurements from. Having the camber and caster of the MacPherson strut correct will minimise and issues with steering and handling done the line 👍
Great to see this insane project! Keep going!
Watching from Portugal 🇵🇹🇵🇹
All looks good, but I would add a tube across the top mounts.. like a strut brace. You also need to cut out the holes in the strut towers to give access to the camber adjustment on your adjustable camber plates. I did a video on this..
You're probably tired of hearing this but future you will thank current you if you get in the habit of wearing gloves and eye protection.
I cant even remember because its been so long but I got something kicked back into my eye and it cut my contact lense in half. Very lucky, I've switched to glasses so now I've always got eye protection now.
no gloves while using reciprocating tools or equipment but yes eye protection and even double protection
The shock towers are looking great. Heck of a lot of engineering to figure out how those were going to fit...but, you got it! Way to go "V"!!
It’s a shame you didn’t know anyone with a strut brace for the same mustang and you could have thrown it on to help you align the strut caps.
I was wondering why he didnt make one to align things
Oh shit! Pops makes his debut!!! The man who taught young Vtuned everything he knows
Não use esse carro no dia-a-dia, somente prova de arrancada ou viagens em pista reta, a potência dos freios nessa gaiola mais a dinâmica de curvaturas, provocaria empenamento nas barras ao lado das soldas, pense que esse aço é bom para fazer uma gaiola de proteção para o piloto que estaria de cinto 5 pontos, e capacete, fora disso é extremamente perigoso. O resultado plástico é incrível!!!!!!!!!!!!
Little tip from a native British English speaker here. Whenever you feel like saying "Tooken" just remember that Liam Neeson action film and what it was called...it certainly wasn't Tooken was it, it was "TAKEN"...I think using a little mental trick like this one will help you get over that...
I really like Vtuned and this build, but I have to say I'm gonna be very surprised if this car doesn't fall apart on its first drive.
I just hope he never crash it because that will be a stiff mofo for sur and not the good kind
@@phrenetik however it is a mustang what you'd expect 🤣 but vtuned looks like a skilled driver
Lol not sure how you can think that so early in the build.
Vtuned I have the utmost respect what you’re doing, keep going as I know you’ll bring us something special 👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Glad to see your project back on track. Even though I was a little rough on you in the beginning, you don't deserve the crap that some of these naysayers are dishing out. Stick to your guns and power through this!
@Vtuned I think 🤔 you got it mostly figured out. But and this is a big But......Since you’re using tube steel anyways, why don’t you weld and build a steel birdcage for the shock to mount into? Build the square cage to take the place of that flimsy thin metal shock tower. Build the bird cage or square box for the shock to fit up inside of with L channel steel and put a steel plate in it for the shock to bolt to. Weld it all together with the tube steel and it will be very strong.
That flimsy thin metal shock tower really concerns me on the strength especially at high speed and torque and really putting it under pressure with turns at high speeds. I really think 🤔 it’s not going to hold up under pressure the way you are building it now, not the shock towers you cut from the other car. So I think you’ll be better off and safer to build the bird cage steel with a strong steel plate to mount the shocks to with it all welded into the tube steel frame.
But that’s only my opinion & they like assholes everyone has one, some just stink worse than others do ! 😂🤣
Vtuned's really talented. This is the series I've been looking forward to watching the most lately.
Looking good now that you went with the correct sub-frame. I am not saying you wasted a lot of time trying to make your own since there was a lesson learned. Things are moving at a much better pace now even with the trial and error. Great job.
Hey Ben, there's the saying,"You gotta break a few eggs to bake a cake.."
Not everything is going to work perfectly,but just keep learning from the mistakes and continue to get better each day!!👍
This build is going to be one of blood,sweat and tears, but the skills you gain will carry with you a lifetime..💯
Kind of looked like Devo when he put the shock tower on his head ...Whip It!
Me enbobo con tus vídeos , me encantra ver como va agarrando forma. Te felicito amigo! Saludos desde México!
Esse carro deve ficar muito bom devido o tempo que esta sendo construido
If you know anything about metal, the strongest metal is a continuous corner, which is what pipe/tubing is. When vtuned is through with this build, I suspect that it will be properly built, reinforced and will hold up great. There’s a reason that many many dragsters use tubular frame setups. A tubular frame setup will withstand a lot more torque/force than a regular frame can. Watching this young man build everything else that he has built leaves me confident that he will be as persnickety with this job as he is with all of the others. Kudos to all concerned, but trashing his work on this frame, which is in very early stages only makes YOU look bad. Cheering for him to fail makes you look even worse. If you don’t like him, go watch another channel, but I assure you that there will always be something you won’t like anywhere you go, because you don’t have the gumption to start your own channel. Keep going, vtuned. Excited to see the FINAL finished project.
Yes!! To the colab suggestion with pops. Although he did contribute he should have given his wisdom on the project itself. Either way homie, you're doing an awesome job as usual. Keep up the great work!!
Tú é o cara!!! Tá ficando top....
Go ahead and finish up!!!
Loving this build bro. The ups and the downs. Keep it up. Great content.
Very talented guy take my hat off to u
Is anyone else thinking the first pothole this car hits it will breaking into little pieces???? I am Crossing all my fingers & toes that it does NOT. :)
I hope so, those tubes do not seem to be strong enough for this machine. I would not even use them on a kit car let alone a Hybrid Mustang. Anyway we learn as we go forward . GOOD Luck VTuned.
Says the guy that replies to his own comments 😷
@@rangerebzwildlifevideos It's been 1 of those days :)
I think he knows what he's doing. Let him learn.
I am NOT knocking the guy, I really think VTuned has got an amazing talent, I am just afraid for him or anyone else who gets into that BEAST when it is ready to blast off down the drag strip or whatever it will be used for.
One of the few times watching this channel where I think "That seems a bit sketchy and unsafe".
Only a few?
I agree, you can not wing this. It becomes dangerous. My son has a master's in mechanical engineering. In collage, he designed and, with the nova, as in Villanova engineering, racing team, built a comprehensive, and complimentary tube chassis for a 3/4 scale formula one car, as well as everything incorporated into making a race car like that, including designing and
making the differential. It's design, it's solid works computer imaging to see where and how things fit. It does not allow for winging it. I know you have a lot of God given talent, but in this instance, it takes an engineering degree to make it happen. Make all of the mistakes on the computer, not real life man hours and material. Your taking a different approach, but it likely will fail in some way. You need to do the geometry before the first cut is made. Just friendly advice. I admire your tenacity though.
Awesome, great to see that the mustang is coming along! Is this a new camera for filming? Looks different but in a good way
Is it easy to register and insured a custom vehicle in States?
Yes in South
I hope BEFORE you weld,, that you get all the cross measurements that will duplicate the late model suspension,in relationship to the dadum or SQUARE .dont mean to be an ass but it has to be within those numbers to track that BEAST properly down the highway. Good luck😎
This is going to be a caged car, so no, this chassis will not be weak. If anything I think he could have made it lighter, still awesome though.
I love this guy. He's building a front end from scratch with one hand and he's texting his bitches with the other hand you rock dude
What vTuned’s dad did to him is more than Mentorship, vTuned is the best, has that 40ish person work Experience
salve salve aqui do brasil um abraço
LIKE YOUR VIDEOS,
but I would have hung the fenders first to clear the shock tower bolts first. They seem high and will interfere with fender height at the attachment to the body by the windshield.
There needs to be a cross member bar across the front of the engine or those tubes will bend down.
I think you mean up... But yeah, they need a cross member and strut tower brace.
Every mistake is a lesson learned! Don’t listen to these rocket scientist’s. This one might only be a Saturday night dirt track special but each one here after will improve. I have been doing this stuff a long time and what I see you doing with the frame machine puts you miles ahead of the guys that learned from a Rip off school. Hands on is the key mixed with a some research.
Love the channel.
I think you do great work! But finally have someone with knowledge willing to help is great! I think we all think the world of you.
Enjoying your build. Certainly not for the faint hearted you make it look easier than it actually is. Thanks Ben
If it was easy anybody could do it. That’s what makes it special and satisfying. Keep up the good work.
I know of shops where not wearing eye protection has caused traumatic brain injury. A one eyed shop boss would hit you hard with a rubber mallet if he ssen you cutting or grinding without eye protection.
Now my brother that built ships m1a1 tanks Kenworth and peterbuilt trucks would shortcut and not wear eye protection. By the time he was in his 40s he had cateracts and had to wait until his late 50s until they were able to replace the lenses in his eyes . He still didn't learn so when he gets a splinter in a eye now he must go to one hospital and have the lenses removed and be driven to a second hospital to have surgery to repair the damage. He wears a patch for a couple weeks and must be tied face down at night with his head in a pillow that looks like a toilet seat so he doesn't touch his eyes while they heal. His name is John but we call him Mr Magoo's stupid brother or dumb ass for short. Wear fucking eye protection every fucking time
I am a retired eye doc and I literally cringe every time I see these young guys grinding metal without eye protection. I lost track of how many thousands of shards of metal I have removed from the cornea, conjunctiva, and inner lids. All it takes is ONE pair of inexpensive safety goggles and accidents can be prevented.
Oh wow.. i like wearing eye protection but if I can’t find the safety glasses I don’t use them. Imma start wearing them every time
A few years ago I was working on some industrial machinery and a fragment of steel swarf blew off the frame and although I had eye protection on it drifted past the glasses into my eye. Although I had eye protection on I should have had proper goggles on or a shield. The fragment of swarf was removed in A&E 2 days later but had rusted an damaged the eye. So had another operation to remove the clouded part of my cornea. So you really nee eye protection and the right type of protection for the area your are working.
Are you planning on painting the frame, sub frame and all the other fabricated parts? And are you keeping the original color of the car or wrapping it?? Can’t wait to see the end product. Keep it up bro. You motivate me to keep working on my C3 corvette.
Keep it up!!! Lots of trial and error. You will do great. I know you read the comments. Some of the input is pretty accurate!!!!
Wow everytime I hole saw that close to the edge it catches and yanks my soul out..
Hey mate love the channel , not sure I would have gone about it the way you are , may want to cheek out some more build videos , also have you left much room for travel with the struts , but hey 10/10 for effort you are jumping in and having a go and that's the best way to learn, getting you hand s dirty . You cant expect to get every thing just right the first time. no mistakes just learning opportunities all the best God bless
Props for taking on this challenge and not waiting for someone to give you all the answers before starting. It’s gonna be amazing when you finish it.
Nice work. V I have one of the metal cutting saws, those little Curly Q's shavings that come off are nasty, they are hot and sharp, you got to wear safety glasses when you run that thing. Anything else I'll give you a pass, but those chips are serious shit if you gets in you eye. You can probably do this stuff with one eye and a hand tied off, but two is always better.
Awesome work dude, cannot wait till that baby is finished and back on the road.
Like what you’re doing. Just have to wonder if you bolted in a strut tower brace if it help get everything aligned? Keep it up you’re making great progress
Guys, I've read the comments and I know the concerns raised here. I stated every single point that's been brought up before. Granted he has intuitive knowledge of how things work, but there's specialized areas he's not qualified to be working in . You can't just start welding tubes together and call it a frame. You need to learn the basics first. Suspension geometry , and welding are absolutely critical. You also have to have a design to begin with .
You can be like b is for build but better you know how to actually use a tube bender and tools available to you I would say build a race car also but better
Dude U got lots of knowledge
Look's like you've got a lot of frame builders to help you here......the pros who have posted their critiques should have made suggestions well ahead of time before Ben spent money to build this framework part of this build.Soooo.....everybody send Ben suggestions NOW.....you all can see where this build is headed....send Ben your thoughts on what y'all think is the best way to proceed from here on out.....via e- mail, snail mail or comments,or in person.....is what I think
A couple of tips.
Cut and bend your long pieces first if you can. If you muck them up you can always make them shorter.
Use safety gear. Guards on tools. Eye protection, hearing protection, skin protection and dust protection. The last one might protect you from a nasty virus. Yes I know it can be uncomfortable but it might mean you can enjoy what you are doing for longer.
Great work Vtuned, keep going even if you occasionally have to rework areas.
If it was not challenging you would get bored, you are a great craftsman.
I'm no expert but I'd be amazed if that setup is going to be strong enough. Maybe i'm underestimating the power of welds.....but that outer large piece of tube coming down into the front part of the frame just welded at the notch just won't hold under any up and down stress from the wheel/bumps. I like the drilled holes into the frame for the tubing though.....but overall this setup makes me kinda nervous.
Get a strut tower brace yo make sure their in the right spot
towboatjeff your right, he could use a block of wood on top of the engine to hold the correct height. That would give the tower plateau the correct height and distance. I was thinking about that to. I thought that car with one.
I see you both have zero fabrication videos on your channels... But yes. Continue to share your incredible wisdom.
@@eriklarson9137 I see that you only have 6 subscribers. How much looser can you get.
Pops should be in every episode! "Pops what do you think of this? I think will be good... 👍
Thanks for the videos Ben. I laughed when you mentioned a strategy for the shock towers instead of engineering them. I'm from MS, so I speak the language. Lol!
Hey Vtune, it's just amazing to see how well you work on the various projects that you have.
The Mustang is my favourite rebuild so far.
Keep up the good work.
Can't wait to see the various videos you post. Will be waiting for the next video to come out.
Greetings from Germany.
Great video! Trial and error something so many people have forgotten about! Make a mistake but you keep going and don’t quit that’s what is so great about your videos! Most kids would have quit by now!
Love what you're doing! A stock strut tower brace would help with aligning the top of the strut plates.
I'm always surprised at how much of this you do by yourself---nice work!!
There I was thinking that the Frame Machine was my favorite part of your builds - NOPE! Cutting, slicing and welding are the stars in this show. GENIUS
Vtuned, I would have just cut out the towers out of some flat plate and welded them in your hoops.
Those shock tower mounts look pretty thin. Especially for the amount of horsepower he wants to put under the hood.
For your age, I'm very impressed with your work ethic, your skills and your willingness to get things done. Some things I'm assuming you've never done before.. I wish that my boy had 1/3 of your willingness to learn & get things done and your work ethic.. I'll bet you have one proud dad.
8:26 memories of vehcor and spot weld drilling lol...omg that guy drills out a lot of spot welds!!!!
Are you sure you have enough adjustability for the caster and camber?🤔
why this dude have dead eyes and keep clapping his hands when he talk. dam this build takes skill