Show us your fabrications

[Cuda Cody]

Brad is Jedi Wizard level with metal.   

[Cudajason]

Brad is Jedi Wizard level with metal.   

no kidding.

I wish I had that kind of skill! 

Jason

[Cuda Cody]

I do not want to make everyone jealous, but this is some fancy welding.           I can not take credit for the first repair.... we found it on one of my cars that I bought that had all the "metal work" done and was "paint ready".     If I had to find something positive to say about the first repair attempt, at least they tried to fix it with metal and not bondo. 

[Burdar]

Brad has some "mad" fabrication skills! When ever I have a fabrication question I PM Brad. I was going to post a few things but my skills are extremely amateurish.

[Brads70]

I was going to post a few things but my skills are extremely amateurish.

Don't say that, not true! I love your work. Post it up man!  I remember some of your nice clean/neat brackets for transmission coolers etc...

[blown motor]

Raspberry jam. Hey, I don't have a lathe! And with no kids at home anymore I get to lick the beaters. 

[Marc70challenger]

Brad is Jedi Wizard level with metal.   

For sure!

[GoodysGotaCuda]

Designed, 3D printed and installed my Speedhut tach mount.

The power steering bracket w/torque strap mount is of my design, laser cut.

The Formula car [not e-body related], my colleagues and I designed, built [from scratch] and raced it. I designed the suspension and did a very heavy amount of fabrication on it.

[Burdar]

"Goody" I've got an idea for a part that could be 3D printed.  Do you still have access to a 3D printer?  If so, PM me sometime. 

[Burdar]

I made a simple air filter cover to make a generic open element air cleaner look custom.  It was just a 3" tall x 4' long piece of aluminum that I drilled holes in.  I used a dimple die to dimple the holes.  Then I just bent the piece around the filter.






I did something similar to fill the gap between the rad support and the radiator.


Here is the bracket I made to mount a trans cooler in front of the radiator.








I made my own fan shroud.  Since I can't weld, I had a friend do the welding for me.






I also made some brackets to mount some 74 firewall to fender braces to my 68.

[Brads70]

Started this project a few years ago, haven't done much in some time. Planning on building my own k-frame with a rack. Using Nascar road race spindles with a few modifications to get the geometry right. I bought a set of Mercedes AMG 8 piston Brembo's and rebuilt them ( $18 bucks for the kit at Rock auto!) Wilwood rotors and made my own hubs. Nascar stuff was too heavy and wrong bolt pattern. I don't think I'll be wearing out those wheel bearings any time soon! LOL   

[Brads70]

More for K-Frame project....
Mounting calipers to spindles.

[Mickm]

Very nice work Brad!

Cheers!
Mickm

[Brads70]

I got some more use out of my dimple dies.... came in handy when mounting a new rad.

[Brads70]

Double pass C&R  Rad  mounted in rubber bushings . I "harvested" the bushings of some car in the wrecking yard. They pull the rads usually for scrap aluminum so the bushing are easy pickings. The last rad I had cracked or pulled the tubes away from the the tanks . It was mounted solid like stock, so the next attempt I mounted it so it floats in rubber like modern rads do. I can wiggle the rad around so hopefully I won't have anymore issues.  Had to make a few mounts to do that....
First picture is what's under the dimple die top plate.
Second is the mounts that got pop riveted to the rad flange