Cascade Crew

aaron_sK · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:44 am Post subject:

Morgan is still making cars (high performance cars, mind you) with wooden framing behind the coachwork.

Wood is much lighter than steel and can be plenty strong if used correctly. The issue is longevity, cost and fire retardation.

iansane · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:11 am Post subject:

I look at this;

and think, "Yaaaaaaaaaayyyy!!"

IROCDave · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:30 pm Post subject:

Man thats a big job changing colors of paint. A couple of things that came to mind while looking at the pictures, Were the gaps between body panels / doors / hatch etc good? Also might want to paint your final coat around the gas tank fill plastic shroud. That would be a bitch to prep and paint later. You could leave it, but every time you fill up you will know what color the car used to be....

IROCDave · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:45 pm Post subject:

Oh, and dont think the poke at GM didnt go unnoticed Very Happy

Maybe Ford should have stuck with wood...

http://www.raptorforumz.com/showthread.php?t=14208

I hadnt heard about this until last night. Adam Carolla mentioned it on the car show. He had a great line about it. The guy from thesmokingtire.com has one and was trying to say that the ten trucks with bent frames all hit something. Adam responded with " yea, they hit reality".

aaron_sK · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:37 pm Post subject:

popballz · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:49 pm Post subject:

nice work dude, its coming along well!

RSFreak · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:34 pm Post subject:

We should point out that we put the yellow deck lid on my car 'cause it is drilled for a spoiler. I could have drilled the holes myself, but my lid was already pretty rusted and this should be plug-n-play! Wink

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:26 pm Post subject:

@ 'hairy mr burns'!

Glad to see progress. Looking forward to following the build.

-Schultzy

aaron_sK · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:46 pm Post subject:

Dinner and more beer resulted in installation of additional parts.

Frame braces painted and installed:

Also some other crap I put under the hood while I was in there: Wink

chevymad · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:56 pm Post subject:

Whats that dinky thing? a motorcycle engine? LOL Razz

aaron_sK · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:04 pm Post subject:

Pretty much, yeah... LMAO

RSFreak · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:45 pm Post subject:

Ugh! That dirty engine is befouling your pristine engine bay!!! Laughing

fiveoformula · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:24 pm Post subject:

You'll be able to smuggle a family of illegals between the front of the engine and the radiator! Laughing

turbo_jimi · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:44 am Post subject:

That engine looks really cool in there! Is the transmission already hooked up too? I'm looking forward to the overall results.

aaron_sK · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:00 am Post subject:

IROCDave · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:49 pm Post subject:

I like the non grid / heated hatch glass look. By the time they heat up enough to knock the ice off the coolant temp is already at 180+ degrees anyway. Besides that, who besides Ian drives their 3rd gens in the snow?

BTW, I was just giving you crap about the Raptor. Anyone who plans to go balls out offroading a production vehicle should expect something like this to happen.
Hell, I broke all but one leaf spring on a set of Rancho 4" lift leaf springs on my 74 Blazer going over a speed bump at 40 MPH. I beat the crap out of that thing and the one thing I took away from it was even aftermarket stuff breaks when jumping, power sliding over whoop de does at 50 MPH etc. To much mud = replacing the HEI distributor, carb and to many sever departure angles ripped the factory hitch off the frame. That hard to do on a SWB blazer. If the top was off the doors would pop open when going over whoops.

The frame never bent and stayed bent though.

aaron_sK · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:05 pm Post subject:

rjmcgee · The Hammer Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 2328

total photochop. Laughing

IROCDave · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:09 pm Post subject:

aaron_sK · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:43 pm Post subject:

Front suspension is back under the car today.

Of course I had an ulterior motive for that; I needed my jackstands. Wink

Rear dropped

Ran into a bit of trouble though. Gonna have to hunt down a new set of rears:

Fronts coming off:

Then I got sidetracked by a new toy:

Hmm...

Sweet!

Anybody need anything at the Tumwater yard? I'll probably be down there at some point this weekend buying goddamned springs. Bashy Bashy