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Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:52 pm

Dude you have gone so far it makes me sick. But on the other hand i realized not to long ago that some Honda power in my baja would be a good idea. Nice!!! Keep the pics comming. :shock:

Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:32 am

thesatelliteguy wrote: Dude you have gone so far it makes me sick. But on the other hand i realized not to long ago that some Honda power in my baja would be a good idea. Nice!!! Keep the pics comming. :shock:

Thanks, I look at my car and I get a little overwhelmed. I have so much work left. But I go back and look at pic’s of what I started with and it keeps me going. I have a couple close friends that are also car builders that have helped push me in to the hole that I am in lol. :shock:

The part of the car I do not like is the cage on the inside of the car there is so much wasted space. After building my parts car. I and feeling how open and comfortable that cage is. I decided to cut to most of the inside of my car and build it the way I like it. Especially after all the money I have spent on my motor and trans. There is no reason to cut corners now.
So in a couple of weeks I will have pics of cutting out the cage the previous owner had installed.
And to get even more room in the car Im thinking of cutting out most of the tunnel :wink:

Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:33 pm

seems like you need an A-arm conversion front end and 35's all around.!!!!

Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:47 pm

whitemike wrote: seems like you need an A-arm conversion front end and 35's all around.!!!!

lol you sound like my friends I want to build this car and finish it. MY next car will be real big.

Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:53 am

Ha ha! yeah, because this has got to be one of the smallest bajas on the samba. :lol: :roll:

Or maybe you could just build one of these:

:(

Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:05 am

kbwakesk8 wrote: we pulled out of my friend car

By kbwakesk8 at 2009-01-07

his new fortin 5 speed :roll:

By kbwakesk8 at 2009-01-07

That vehicle doesn't happen to belong to Doug Silcock does it?

Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:27 am

It belongs to matt mcbride He tried to sell me the whole car.

Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:21 pm

I am also picking up the 2.5 triple bypass rear shocks off him. he is going to go bigger. :shock:

Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:43 pm

More parts.. The hole I dig myself just got deeper.
The light bar im not using just wanted the lights. put the light bar on the neighbors car.

By kbwakesk8 at 2009-02-09
2.5 16” triple bypass king shocks

By kbwakesk8 at 2009-02-09
I also picked up crow 3” 5 point belts for the car.
Over the weekend my friend and I started taking measurements on the car to lay out the new cage and we noticed that the rear torsion housing is bent Up on one side buy a good amount. Causing the camber on that side to be off. Not sure what I want to do with that yet.

Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:11 pm

unused lightbar eh? wanna toss it my way? i see the beginning of a chad fabbed roof rack light bar right there!

another kevin only deal im sure! bitching parts there!

Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:47 am

kbwakesk8 wrote: More parts.. The hole I dig myself just got deeper.
The light bar im not using just wanted the lights. put the light bar on the neighbors car.

By kbwakesk8 at 2009-02-09
2.5 16” triple bypass king shocks

By kbwakesk8 at 2009-02-09
I also picked up crow 3” 5 point belts for the car.
Over the weekend my friend and I started taking measurements on the car to lay out the new cage and we noticed that the rear torsion housing is bent Up on one side buy a good amount. Causing the camber on that side to be off. Not sure what I want to do with that yet.

SHIT KEV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:30 pm

Update well not much of an update. I bought a new mig welder. I have spent the last couple of months working on the house. putting up fences and things.

Looking at the car real close i found the rear torsion housing is bent.
And I am planing on cutting 90% of the cage out and starting over.

Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:05 pm

Oops I smell a "never get it done, never ending build, driveway full of eyesores neighbour, give up and sell it for pennies on a dollar" build thread here.
Just straighten out your torsion and finish the freakin thing will ya! Go have fun in it while you can.

Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:24 pm

kbwakesk8 wrote: Update well not much of an update. I bought a new mig welder. I have spent the last couple of months working on the house. putting up fences and things.

Looking at the car real close i found the rear torsion housing is bent.
And I am planing on cutting 90% of the cage out and starting over.

what kind of mig did you get??? do you have a tig/ arc??

Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:16 pm

It's a miller challanger 175 220volt mig
Still lookin at Tig welders thats next.
Still looking for a set of 3x3 arms for the girlfriends car.

Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:30 pm

Finish it Kevin. You can build another cage different later.

That new guy Pete is gonna be givin' you rides in his Baja pretty soon.

Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:38 pm

kbwakesk8 wrote: It's a miller challanger 175 220volt mig
Still lookin at Tig welders thats next.
Still looking for a set of 3x3 arms for the girlfriends car.

Sick!!

Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:01 pm

riNR wrote: Oops I smell a "never get it done, never ending build, driveway full of eyesores neighbour, give up and sell it for pennies on a dollar" build thread here.
Just straighten out your torsion and finish the freakin thing will ya! Go have fun in it while you can.

dustymojave wrote: Finish it Kevin. You can build another cage different later.

That new guy Pete is gonna be givin' you rides in his Baja pretty soon.

With in the next mounth I will start working on the car. I have almost all the parts I need . just need to get in there and start cutting.

On a sad note :cry:
A good friend of mine lost his mom two months ago. This last friday his dad pastaway. So I have been helping him take care of things. He has a rail fraim and a 66 bug cut for baja with papers. That we need to sell to help pay for expenses I will be posting them in the classifields soon.

Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:59 pm

Ok So i started the motor and trans mount Im bolting the motor and trans together and building a car around that. I have a 66 sell im going to use so the body and cage with current registration is for sale. i need the room.

Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:11 pm

When are we going to see some updates on your Honda V6 J swap? Im getting really anxious to do this my self.