David was it you, your brother and father who drove up to my place in Kansas and got a 6.5 from me many years ago?
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The Willomet Charger
- Thread starter AgDieseler
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A desecration to Mopar nuts everywhere, this is my protouring, LS-powered, 1970 Dodge Charger; built at my shop, Willomet Motor & Fabrication.
That was us. Green diesel suburban, and your 599 engine fit in the back with something like an inch to spare.
David
I'll never forget watching you guys stuff that motor in the back of the Sub. Never saw anything like that before.
Back at it.
Last vestiges of the Rev1 design are out. I hate cutting up and taking junk out, and I’m glad it’s done. The pinch welds are now clean, the seams are hammered and dolley’ed, and it’s time to return to building.
Moving forward. The new rockers are a one-piece design. No more piecing junk together, and this is out to the sheet metal shop for laser and bend this week. This was all drawn in the bendtech sheet metal module.
Meanwhile, rust repair on the passenger door jam. This upper part was chewed. Also, it turns out that the AMD Taiwan panels puddle and weld noticeably better than the original ‘70 Mopar stuff - kind of surprising.
Objective: get the chassis roughly assembled and in the shell before SEMA.
David
Last vestiges of the Rev1 design are out. I hate cutting up and taking junk out, and I’m glad it’s done. The pinch welds are now clean, the seams are hammered and dolley’ed, and it’s time to return to building.
Moving forward. The new rockers are a one-piece design. No more piecing junk together, and this is out to the sheet metal shop for laser and bend this week. This was all drawn in the bendtech sheet metal module.
Meanwhile, rust repair on the passenger door jam. This upper part was chewed. Also, it turns out that the AMD Taiwan panels puddle and weld noticeably better than the original ‘70 Mopar stuff - kind of surprising.
Objective: get the chassis roughly assembled and in the shell before SEMA.
David
Chipping away during mornings, and evenings.
I used high frequency DC, 33%\33%, 120Hz, 90A-110A (never matted the pedal at 120A).
Low current silicone bronze follow up.
It’s not perfect until it is.
Next up:
Meanwhile, the laser shop should have the rockers done Friday.
David
I used high frequency DC, 33%\33%, 120Hz, 90A-110A (never matted the pedal at 120A).
Low current silicone bronze follow up.
It’s not perfect until it is.
Next up:
Meanwhile, the laser shop should have the rockers done Friday.
David
I don't remember if yours has it. But I've been using the pulse feature a lot on my tig on thin stuff anymore. Takes a little practice but makes it stupid easy once set right.
I have no idea what you're talking about but it looks cool!
Rather than straight current TIG, high frequency pulses the current. In this case, I used 120 pulses per second (Hertz), with 33% of the current on background (30ish amps), and full current (90ish amps) on 33% of the time. These pulse settings are super useful at focusing the arc, can lower the heat input on thin stuff and prevent burning out the work.
It’s especially helpful when the original steel is boogered up and varies in thickness. The new Taiwan steel from AMD puddles great, but the old ‘70 steel just wanted to crater and pop. The additional settings on my welder give amateurs like me a wider margin for error when working on sensitive junk like this.
David
Sounds like a pwm controller used on things like fans and leds.
Rocker plating was done early. I only had a minute to test fit, but they’re perfect.
I’ll head over to my buddy’s shop and use his iron worker to run the dimple die through those larger holes.
David
I’ll head over to my buddy’s shop and use his iron worker to run the dimple die through those larger holes.
David
Pretty nice little Saturday planned...
David
David
You sounded just like Frank The Tank just then..... next you’ll be sayin’ that you took the restrictor plate off the Red Dragon to give it more juice....
(It’s not exactly legal so let’s just keep that on the down-low...).
-G
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Insert streaking reference in 3...2...1...
Interior brace in.
Patch finely fit and (pretty much) ready for welding.
Also, went to my buddy’s shop and ran the dimple die though the rocker plating. I want to get to that tomorrow, but only if this patch is done and blended.
David
Patch finely fit and (pretty much) ready for welding.
Also, went to my buddy’s shop and ran the dimple die though the rocker plating. I want to get to that tomorrow, but only if this patch is done and blended.
David
Not everyday is a hero day. Today was all about steady progress - no getting around the hours.
More pulse TIG
Weld thru and punched for plugs
Just a zoom in if the fine fitting required to make this patch fit in the same plane as the original
Time to light this candle
About where I wrapped up this segment. I swept up and reset my tools for the coming weld sesh’
Also, fit check on the Rev2 rocker plating
Hardly any distortion from the die - the iron worker is the way to go
Up next, a full week of work.
David
More pulse TIG
Weld thru and punched for plugs
Just a zoom in if the fine fitting required to make this patch fit in the same plane as the original
Time to light this candle
About where I wrapped up this segment. I swept up and reset my tools for the coming weld sesh’
Also, fit check on the Rev2 rocker plating
Hardly any distortion from the die - the iron worker is the way to go
Up next, a full week of work.
David
As they say in Japanese companies: The reward for doing hard work is......more work!!!
-G
-G
Semi-Charger-related video is live:
David
David
