Here's a pic of the grill, I drilled 60-5/8" holes, and jig sawed the headlight holes and mounting holes for the GMC emblem. I mounted Summit offroad lights too. Also, the radiator is mounted, with some more trianglarity, to make the front stronger. 
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Spy pics of the bluggy project.
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gm500hprat
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Looks good. I purchased a customized x-chassis from hendrix and picked up about 2 months ago. My rig will be somewhat similiar to yours. I will be mounting it to my k15 frame thats left. Cutting off 6ft of rear frame because im doing 4 link and the back end is all tubing anyways. Keep up the good work. Art
gm500hpwrat said:
Cool thanks, I thought I saw your post in the formula toy section at POR.
That sure looks like alot of work. Did you buy a DOM or HREW chasiss?
gm500hprat
1/2 ton status
DOM chassis. Yeah im sure its going to be a lot of work. Im still in the demo phaze on the existing body and electrical. Im going to do my sheetmetal stuff way different than any of the other x-chassis, its going to look more like a dezert truggy. I got the recessed bracing like everybody else does but im only using that for strength.
lookin good JK... you are about 6 months ahead of me. 
btw, how tall is the cage from the top of the frame to the top of the cage (above the seats)???? Just wondering if my rig is gonna end up freakishly tall based on the design/numbers I have thus far... lol!
j
btw, how tall is the cage from the top of the frame to the top of the cage (above the seats)???? Just wondering if my rig is gonna end up freakishly tall based on the design/numbers I have thus far... lol!
j
gm500hpwrat said:
Sweet!!! DOM is the way to go...
Are you gutting the factory wiring like I am?
Any new progress??? It sure is tough, getting the motivation to stay on these BIG projects...and I thought I'd be done by now.
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jekbrown said:lookin good JK... you are about 6 months ahead of me.
btw, how tall is the cage from the top of the frame to the top of the cage (above the seats)???? Just wondering if my rig is gonna end up freakishly tall based on the design/numbers I have thus far... lol!
j
Thanks...ok..LINK please...
*47" from the top of the frame rail to the top of the cage.
*38" top of the seat bottom to the top of the cage.
(Roughly, I'm working on the interior next.)
*170" long
*67" wide
I had the same thoughts also, during design.
I was thinking...I better have this right....
otherwise it means
I mocked up the seats...I think I have that happy medium..
I guess we'll see...when I'm on the trail.
damn... I think 38" from seat bottom to cage top is exactly what I have modeled in autocad right now. lol! I'll have to check the frame-to-top height...
good to know I'm in a similar ball park anyway. Thanks for the measurements. My rig is going to be a trail rig, not a comp rig... so if it is a little on the tall side, its all good.
Is that 67" wide measurement at the rockers or the "arm rest tube" thingies higher up? Right now my rockers are about 58" wide...
j
good to know I'm in a similar ball park anyway. Thanks for the measurements. My rig is going to be a trail rig, not a comp rig... so if it is a little on the tall side, its all good.
Is that 67" wide measurement at the rockers or the "arm rest tube" thingies higher up? Right now my rockers are about 58" wide...j
gm500hprat
1/2 ton status
JK5 said:Sweet!!! DOM is the way to go...
Are you gutting the factory wiring like I am?
Any new progress??? It sure is tough, getting the motivation to stay on these BIG projects...and I thought I'd be done by now.
Yeah Im gutting it and if it ends up a scrap pile in the end, I'll just by a hotrod kid from painless. Yeah its hard just finding the time between work and playing with the rugrats and mowing the lawn.
jekbrown said:damn... I think 38" from seat bottom to cage top is exactly what I have modeled in autocad right now. lol! I'll have to check the frame-to-top height...
good to know I'm in a similar ball park anyway. Thanks for the measurements. My rig is going to be a trail rig, not a comp rig... so if it is a little on the tall side, its all good.
j
LOL....that's funny. You better change a couple measurements...
67" wide at the armrest tube, 59" at the rocker.
gm500hpwrat said:
That will work.
I looked at painless' kits myself, while searching there web site, I found wiring schematics. I found Carling toggle switches and circuit breakers with rubber boots, at www.grainger.com , so I decided to save even more cash. The components come to a total of $30, and I found a piece of aluminum for the mounting plate sitting in the scrap at work. The painless kit I looked at was $200.
Bluggy's lookin' good, Jerry! I'm almost done down here in Masontown, Pa, be home next Tuesday for awhile anyway. Keep up the good work!
I'm hoping I can install my new doubler set-up over the holidays, and try to be ready when you are!
Mike
I'm hoping I can install my new doubler set-up over the holidays, and try to be ready when you are!
Mike
Paxx
1/2 ton status
nvrenuf said:I wish someone would make a kit.
there is a kit. I forget the name of the guy that built it but he worked for ord. I have pics of it from the BB 03. I think he was selling it for around $1600 maybe.. It was nice just bolted on to the k5 frame. If I was at home i would post a pic.
gm500hprat
1/2 ton status
Are you talking about Stephen at ORD? Because his kit costs way the hell more than that. Try in the 3k's somewhere, and I believe its weld-on. Hendrix makes one for the toyotas that will fit full size trucks. Im doing one right now.
madmike said:
thanks Mike!!!
I think we're going out this weekend...
gm500hpwrat said:
After purchasing DOM steel, cutting disks, 30 lbs of MIG wire, 3 tanks of argon mix, 3 saw blades, grinding disks and etc..roughly $1000 for material.
there is no possible way someone could build a solid tube chassis for $1600
without losing their a$$!!!
gm500hprat
1/2 ton status
JK5 said:
I agree to an extent, the hendrix chassis holds up pretty decently they have been proven in competitions but even those chassis take some of your own fabrication to make solid. Hendrix builds his with soem give so the chassis takes the brunt of the impact and not the driver. But if you want to build it totally solid so it doesnt bend as easy you need to put more money and time into it.
Hendrix can keep his prices low because of the amount of orders he gets he buys mass quanities and has everthing in jigged up. So he is bending and tacking the formula toys all day, and he has vendors in west and east coast that do finish assembly and welding to those chassis. While he still builds the x-chassis himself at his shop. When you do enough of them and get a good jig setup you can pop those puppies out quickly and efficiently with a lower overhead.
I used to work at fabtechs main headquarters, man you should see those $5.00 workers popping out a-arms and control arms. They are like ants you teach one of them what to do and they do the same thing all day, cranking them out then throwing them in abasket then another grinds em and then another paints them.
But ORD isnt popin those things out in quanity they are all pretty much one offs Im sure, build as they go.
gm500hprat
1/2 ton status
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