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Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:21 pm

I picked up a Kellison Sandpiper XP1 around Sept. of last year and am in the process of rebuild. I just purchased a digital camera so have no photos of the before, but it was ROUGH... pans rotten thru, locked singleport, rotted front beam, stock bug seats etc. I am currently engineering a roll cage for it using 1.5" .095 tube. Recently welded my adjusters in, sandblasted and painted stock trailing arms and steering box. Aluminum beam with chrome tie rods is now in and functional and I'm amassing parts for a 2180 that I'll top with my freshly returned 45 Harneys. More pics as they happen. :D

Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:22 pm

Body after soda blasting
Pan in progress
Rear end
Full raise
Full drop
Parts mockup

Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:33 pm

Great start. deside on a paint color yet?

Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:35 pm

I'm really leaning toward a wrinkly bed liner in screamin' lime green. :D

Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:42 pm

as you can tell, I like green :D I`ve got too many "toys" green myself. I was going to paint the Cimbria lime green when done but leaning towards a metalflake blue

Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:46 pm

I really doubt it'll be ready for Mid America but I'll have my street bug there!

Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:10 pm

as long as you make it down and join in the fun, it`s cool.

Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:23 am

Mongo63 wrote: I'm really leaning toward a wrinkly bed liner in screamin' lime green. :D

Please say it's not so!

Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:37 pm

Took a snow day today and spent the day getting some done on the buggy. Spent a little time at the blast cabinet cleaning my front backing plates and then laid some Harley silver on them.

Started making a perimeter frame from 1.25" square tubing with .125 wall to mount the body and give it a little lift.

I will make a mirror image out of identical material to sandwich the outer edges of the new pans, and also will tie the lower bar to the front and rear torsions to stiffen the pan and allow for mounting points for my cage.

I finished welding a tow hook/ tiedown point to the framehead. I also blasted my tunnel access cover and painted it wrinkle black.

Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:32 pm

Built a set of pan stiffeners out of 1.25 square tube that tie the torsions together. I sectioned them into the floor pans and welded them to the rear torsion. Now those cheap ass brazillian pans feel like 3/8 plate! Finally disassembled the rear spring plates and torsion caps and dropped them at the powdercoater.

Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:03 pm

spring plates powdercoated, urethane bushings.

strung a new stainless fuel line, correct grommets are on the way

mounted some 31-10.50's on stock wheels for shop rollers

sandblasted some brake parts and built a pedestal for bender

Is this an EMPI camber compensator? Was on buggy when I bought it, will blast it and get the resto kit if it's worth reusing.

Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:23 am

Mongo63 wrote:

Does that bender platform work very well? It would sure be nice if my bender was portable. :)

Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:33 am

aquamanx wrote: Mongo63 wrote:

Does that bender platform work very well? It would sure be nice if my bender was portable. :) Yes its been good so far, we've got in floor heating and I didn't want to drill into the floors for fear of hitting a line.

Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:07 pm

Mongo63 wrote: aquamanx wrote: Mongo63 wrote:

Does that bender platform work very well? It would sure be nice if my bender was portable. :) Yes its been good so far, we've got in floor heating and I didn't want to drill into the floors for fear of hitting a line.
What is that about a 4'x4' x 3/4" sheet of plywood on top of a 2x4 frame?
Did ya add extra support under the bender stand?

Cool looking buggy! I haven't seen that body style before. Ill bet that was a lot of work putting in the square tubing but well worth the trouble in the end.

Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:08 pm

3/4 top sheet and reinforced the base with 4X4 green studs, feels really solid. Have only bent some 1" so far but don't forsee any problems. Will probably start bending some 1.5 .095 wall tonight and will let you know how it works out. I actually have some anchors in the concrete right outside the service door, but its 2 degrees here now with a windchill of neg. 20, so that won't do...

Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:43 pm

DAMN, thats cold! Its 70 and sunny here :D
Let me know how it does on the 1.5"

Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:55 pm

Bent some 1.625 last night and the bender pedestal was rock solid! :D

Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:10 am

Cool! Looks like Ill be making a trip to the lumber yard.
Thanks :D

Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:14 pm

Got a couples hours of work done the past few days, mostly small details but it all helps. Got my CB pedal mounted and adjusted. I am using an early pedal cluster so no bracket on it for throttle pedal, so made a custom floor mount. It's welded to .125 plate under the floor pans so it shouldn't fall off on it's own.

The pan I'm using is a 60', so I updated the front trans mount to the later style I cut off a donor torsion.

Spent a few hours at the blast cabinet cleaning 40+ years of grease and mung from the serviceable parts. Got some painting and powdercoating done as well. It's not huge progress but the details add up...

Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:52 pm

Little things progress still helps. anytime you can check something off your build list is a good thing. Just keep plugging away on it and keep us posted!