The Willomet Charger

[AgDieseler]

Definitely an infection. Just call up ma Mopar. Unfortunately I hear the prescription is an all aluminum hemi. So probably just have to deal with the infection

Bang on. Pay off the mortgage in 20ish years, get a Sonny’s Racing Engines Hemi, die happy and poor, suffer with a 700hp LS in the meantime.

David is the plan to weld shut all those windows or stitch weld here and there and use a seam sealer to finish off the laps?

The overlay plates get the plug holes filled and smoothed, the triangular windows are fully perimeter welded, and the other edge of the plate is also welded - don’t want water getting between the plate and the rail over time. There will be more overlay plates, including one that runs along the bottom of this rail and meets up with this plate.

They’re a neat way to add strength through design rather than just more material and weight. I stole the idea from dune fab folks.

David

 

[AgDieseler]

Here’s a lot of pictures for very slight progress.

I started working on the center frame expansion plate. Here’s my office for the next little bit.

Trimming and welding the inner flange - need a flush surface for the plate.






Lots of fitting later.






One more plate will go to the inside.

Just a parting shot after sweeping the floor and getting ready to take the pup on a walk.


David

 

[AgDieseler]

Passenger interior plate is fit and cleco’d.







Rails are just a tad bit over 7” tall at the crease.


Third and final front rail plate getting mocked up.


It’s not overkill if you plan to drive it hard.

David

 

[76zimmer]

Sometimes too much is just enough!

 

[AgDieseler]

Made some adjustments to the inner and interior plates to simplify the overall design and eliminate a 9” section where two 1/8” plates were stacked. This adds about 1.5 lbs of lightness.




Now it’s just the right amount of overkill.

David

 

[AgDieseler]

Time to start building the top and bottom plates.









David

 

[AgDieseler]

Fine fitting the top plates, which consumes a crapload of time to get the open corner welds set just right.


On the plus side, I did lay down some TIG welds on the passenger rail, and I’m very pleased when them. I’m really digging on the control and precision I can get with the Furick FUPA.

First pass with .045 wire.


Cover pass with 1/16


More to come. It’s only 105 tomorrow.

David

 

[campfire]

A Mexican Mopar? I hadn't caught that before.

The dimes look good, as always. Sure beats my MIG work.

 

[AgDieseler]

A Mexican Mopar?

The frame table is hecho en Mexico. The new steel on the car is a three origin NAFTA blend. All organic. Ethically smelted.

David

 

[campfire]

The frame table is hecho en Mexico. The new steel on the car is a three origin NAFTA blend. All organic. Ethically smelted.

David

Hahahaha!

 

[AgDieseler]

[vent]

Well, no progress can be made until the power company gets 230V coming back into my panel.

We’re reading anywhere from 203 to 211 at the meter, and about 106 on each leg. That’s not enough to run our 20 SEER AC (we’re sweating it out, and running a small port-a-cool), and it’s too low to operate my inverter-based welding machines.

So, not only do I have to suffer with no AC, but I can’t even make the time useful and work on projects.

[/vent]

David

 

[Bent77]

Suck...

 

[76zimmer]

that's gotta be hell....I would buy a kiddie pool to lay in all day.

 

[AgDieseler]

It was our third record-setting day in a row in Dallas - 109F today. Here’s how I celebrated.



Added a shock tower gusset.




All the scored bend lines and tacked panels are now fully welded and blended.


Before


After


It’s going to be 108F tomorrow.

David

 

[campfire]

It’s going to be 108F tomorrow.

So...at that temperature, do you need to bother striking an arc? I just assumed steel spontaneously melted at that temp.

 

[AgDieseler]

Milestone. One plate tacked. Working the other side.




David

 

[AgDieseler]

Excellent! looking forward to seeing the post cards from your trip to the garage.

I couldn’t take off a week, but I did take tomorrow (minus one conf call). I’ll be out in the shop, uninterrupted, all day.

David

 

[Greg72]

[vent]

Well, no progress can be made until the power company gets 230V coming back into my panel.

We’re reading anywhere from 203 to 211 at the meter, and about 106 on each leg. That’s not enough to run our 20 SEER AC (we’re sweating it out, and running a small port-a-cool), and it’s too low to operate my inverter-based welding machines.

So, not only do I have to suffer with no AC, but I can’t even make the time useful and work on projects.

[/vent]

David

Sooo..... where did the extra 20 volts go?

I’ve been meaning to ask you what caused this, and how it gets resolved by the power company.


-G

 

[frankin5]

Too many people consuming more power than the grid can supply at a given time. This is called a brown out.

 

[AgDieseler]

Sooo..... where did the extra 20 volts go?

I’ve been meaning to ask you what caused this, and how it gets resolved by the power company.

We have three parallel transformers serving our side of the block. One tripped a breaker. Oncor reset the breaker, and we were back up at 243VAC. The tech looked at the shop and we chatted about metal work. He put in a request to switch us over to a single and larger transformer.

Too many people consuming more power than the grid can supply at a given time. This is called a brown out.

We never lost power, but I think you’re dead on about too much power draw. We had a solid week of 104F-109F. AC was used liberally. Everywhere. A lot.

David