The Turbo Glue Factory: Boosted Colt Build

[turbomonty]

Found one

 

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Locating the sleeved splice in the X-over weld joint...

 

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Lead ballst over the right rear
CHECK

 

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One cleaned up mostly

 

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ran out of of the argon/CO2 bottle today and fuck running straight CO2!
the welder runs like shit and the setting are all over the fucking place.
i feel like i was 12 years old again


i got the drive shaft tunnel cleared out

 

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China coil packs and pride wires

 

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Fuck you dead weight

 

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turbo wrangling a colt

 

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different colt

 

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Got about 20 degrees of angle for the massive corner carving I am planning to do

 

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Felt like spraying some color. Beetle got right in there and fuck it he can stay!

 

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I think by cutting the Rust-Oleum with acetone it came out pretty nice.... From 10 feet away

 

[SByota]

This is going to be a fun little car!

Drag racer? Street car? Auto cross? Just a little rad car with a turbo and a lot of horsepower?

 

[turbomonty]

fuking mid life crisis shit in my garage!
also dodge colts are the bestist most rad cars.....

 

[turbomonty]

Got some more trigger time and acetone mixture testing. Works pretty good. I scratched the shit out of it while ripping off some dead body mass on the front so thats fun. I'll get some sanding experience

 

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Started some sheet

 

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Tonight I'm going to paint the top of the hood. Pray for me

 

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Working on the triangulated 4 link to chassis mounts today
From cardboard CAD to two strips of steel as I have no plate.....

 

[turbomonty]

First side done and tacking in now