How to go from Bashed up blazer, to sweet 1st gen "transformer truggy" in one month...
What you see here is the transformation my k5 has undergone at Pacific Fabrication in Morgan Hill, CA. "If you can dream it, we can build it."
Kevin and myself spent 4 LONG weekends working on the k5, friday and saturdays we wouldn't call it an evening before midnight and often we'd stay up till 2 am trying to meet our goal of having this completed in 4 weeks for Pismo Dunes Memorial Day weekend!
K5 buildup and other pics can be found on the pacificfab.net website.
A HUGE THANK YOU to Kevin (k5tpi) and Jen (groupie) at pacific fabrication for helping me with this. It took 20 or 30 12 Packs of Dr. Pepper and many long nights!! My k5 would not be what it is now without them.
Now prepare for pic whorring...
My bashed up blazer, last summer on the rubicon:
Pre-Build up:
No body:
...Then the DOM truck showed up...
6 sticks 2" .120 DOM
2 sticks 1.5" .120 DOM
a few sticks of 1.75 and 1.5 HREW .120"
Me Bending some tube:
Kevin Tig Welding the traction bar shackles:
Rear Bumper:
Main Hoop & Halo:
Coming together:
Plasma Cutting for the tube to pass through the firewall:
Seat Mounts:
Rear Cage almost done:
"Its 1 in the morning, you wanna quit now or keep on working for another hour?"
Skinned bedsides, Billet Tube Clamps and aluminum tube supports to hang the Removeable bedsides...
Kevin Fab'd these Prototype traction bars to hook up the massive paddle tires and keep the axle from wrappin!
Getting ready to paint..
Not only do the bedsides come off, the front clip is now one piece, retains a few of the factory bolts on the cowl and has custom supports up front (in place of the core support) that makes for quick removal.
Cage and inside painted...
Notice the filler panel for the A piller of the cage.. Its not quite an inner cage, but not quite and exo cage. We call it a "Mexo-Cage". (mid exo).
Pretty much finished, Ready for the dunes with the traction bars and paddle tires in the back.
I'd like to add a few more bars for the door bar, and the main hoop to triangulate it a little better, when we have some more time...
What you see here is the transformation my k5 has undergone at Pacific Fabrication in Morgan Hill, CA. "If you can dream it, we can build it."
Kevin and myself spent 4 LONG weekends working on the k5, friday and saturdays we wouldn't call it an evening before midnight and often we'd stay up till 2 am trying to meet our goal of having this completed in 4 weeks for Pismo Dunes Memorial Day weekend!
K5 buildup and other pics can be found on the pacificfab.net website.
A HUGE THANK YOU to Kevin (k5tpi) and Jen (groupie) at pacific fabrication for helping me with this. It took 20 or 30 12 Packs of Dr. Pepper and many long nights!! My k5 would not be what it is now without them.
Now prepare for pic whorring...
My bashed up blazer, last summer on the rubicon:
Pre-Build up:
No body:
...Then the DOM truck showed up...
6 sticks 2" .120 DOM
2 sticks 1.5" .120 DOM
a few sticks of 1.75 and 1.5 HREW .120"
Me Bending some tube:
Kevin Tig Welding the traction bar shackles:
Rear Bumper:
Main Hoop & Halo:
Coming together:
Plasma Cutting for the tube to pass through the firewall:
Seat Mounts:
Rear Cage almost done:
"Its 1 in the morning, you wanna quit now or keep on working for another hour?"
Skinned bedsides, Billet Tube Clamps and aluminum tube supports to hang the Removeable bedsides...
Kevin Fab'd these Prototype traction bars to hook up the massive paddle tires and keep the axle from wrappin!
Getting ready to paint..
Not only do the bedsides come off, the front clip is now one piece, retains a few of the factory bolts on the cowl and has custom supports up front (in place of the core support) that makes for quick removal.
Cage and inside painted...
Notice the filler panel for the A piller of the cage.. Its not quite an inner cage, but not quite and exo cage. We call it a "Mexo-Cage". (mid exo).
Pretty much finished, Ready for the dunes with the traction bars and paddle tires in the back.
I'd like to add a few more bars for the door bar, and the main hoop to triangulate it a little better, when we have some more time...
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