So I need to weld aluminum for some upcoming parts of the project. I made a bunch of little tiny pieces of aluminum by cutting apart formula car body panels, sanding off all the paint, cutting them into tiny pieces, and then welding them back together. I won't show you tons of this stuff like the shark box catch box I made, but this piece looks decent lol. The more complex stuff doesn't look as nice. I feel like I can finish up some bracket stuff I was working on, and continue on with some of the front end stuff I want to make.
A HUGE amount of my time is cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. The car literally came with no bolts, and I keep scrounging what I can or buying them. The scrounging requires so much cleaning!
I have been meaning to fix some small mistakes I made with the power steering system. I put together some AN Pushlock hoses with non-matching brands which caused some problems with proprietary non-interchangeable hoses, even though everything was the same size. So I purchased the corresponding same brand fittings, and rebuilt the lines. Here I am laying them out. This is low pressure power steering stuff, ignore the hose clamp in the bottom of the picture, that hose was temporary and a used piece of hose for fitting and routing.
I wanted to fit a 90 degree curve problem with the factory style hose setup since things have been rerouted quite a bit. This involved cutting up the stock low pressure feed into the power steering pump, I got rid of some length and the barb...
Putting an AN fitting into a lathe. A dash 8 male Earl fitting if you are curious.
Then opening the backside of it up so the powersteering feed slides directly into it so it will be a better welded joint.
Then WEEEEEEEEEEEE!
And here we go, final routing correcting some problems in the engine bay.
For your information it is a dash 6 coming out of the high pressure side, feeding into the rack, coming out the low pressure side over to the cooler, coming out of the cooler in another dash 6 line into the reservoir, and out in a dash 8 and over to the return low pressure inlet which is a dash 8. All the low pressure hose is Earls Super Stock push lock hose, in both dash 6 and 8. The high pressure side is a premade piece, since I can keep a hose from exploding at 1000 psi.
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Some fun facts.
1. I have now pulled a trailer in the quest to finish this car over 3500 miles. That includes going to Vegas, going to Kilgore, going to College Station, etc. All with a trailer and a diesel truck. Tyler traveled out to Vegas quite a few times and probably drove a combined 10,000 miles to work on the car and transport it around. Each trip to and from Vegas is over 2400 miles.
2. The front suspension has been pulled apart more than 10 times. Tyler probably did that as well.
3. The new brakes have been on and off the car probably 5 times so far. Tyler never got to see the brakes, and took the stock ones off and threw them in the trash, he didn't have to fuss with those.
4. The head lights have come on and off more than 20 times for fitment, and I am only about halfway there on that. It takes me 20 minutes to assemble and disassemble those little guys. Tyler loved HID's and probably fussed with them on every car he ever owned.
5. I have received more than 50 packages from online retailers. I am a LONG way from done. Tyler probably received that many a month!