I spent far too long making this last night, have a welding tan (burrrrn) to show for it, and realize once again that with the correct tools, I could have done this much more nicely and much faster but oh well... On with the pics! I'll point out where I went wrong in the assembly and I'm going to use the mistake to make sure my next projects are much moah bettah.
I made do with some scrap metal kicking around from a friends trailer for his airplane, so it's WAY overbuilt, and pretty bulky. I'll save the pretty piece for when I decide a larger IC is needed 8)
I cut the mounting plates off the stock cross member and welded up some angle iron...
And it goes a little like this:
Then I needed some fish mouth things... Took FOREVER to make with chop saw/sawzall - need band saw.
Fish mouth things mount like this
And here's where I went wrong. Decided to weld one side on and then attach to the car to tack the other side. Should have left the parts mounted and tacked both sides - must have been getting too late for me to think clearly. The end result is that the center bar has a good 1/4" elevation change end to end. Oh well, the IC will hide it.
That's where I left off. Still need to notch it out for the snub and for harmonic damper clearance. I also need to make up some gussets to close up between the bar stock and angle iron. I need to pick up a flapper wheel to clean up the welds and then blast it before paint. I plan on using a 2" hole saw to lighten things up once I'm done with everything else. I was pretty impressed with the no name 110V MIG at the shop.
*edit* I'm trying to throw this IC mounting together quickly because we're kicked out of the shop Oct.1st and I'm moving my car out on Sunday!
that's good info Austin
