Project Flexington: 160.3db @ 37hz!! Parallel 6th order walk through, DC Neo Elite 18s, 4 DC 5.0ks, JY Lithium, 12 banks of XS Caps

[BP1Fanatic]

Lol, I thought you were tubbing for bigger wheels! That might be the 1st time I've seen some one put in smaller than stock wheel wells.

[the_garynator]

15 minutes ago, BP1Fanatic said:

Lol, I thought you were tubbing for bigger wheels! That might be the 1st time I've seen some one put in smaller than stock wheel wells.

Hahaha, some of my friends on Facebook thought I was doing air ride. #thingswedoforbass lmao

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Ran into a little problem.  

Too far along to go back now though, 2 in spacers are on their way lmfao.  Should have this one done tonight at least. 

My buddy Kyle was manning the drill press making my front distro blocks!

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So damn close but I ran outta wire...on the bright side, I'm a bit loopy from the fumes from all of the burnt undercoating lmfao

 

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Back at it again.  Special thanks goes out to Harbor Freight for having a set of tamper proof torx sockets! Finally got this son of a bish out! I cannot fathom why 7 big ass safety torx bolts and 2 10mm bolts were need to secure the friggin air bag control module. It's not like this is a military F16's black box or some shit!

Oh and my latest order of lugs and loom showed up the other day... Got lugs? Lol

More updates to come later.

[Karkov]

so serious, lol

[the_garynator]

Got a ton accomplished today!

Called in the reinforcements! My good friend Jeremiah (of JFab) came by to do what he does best! This freed me up to work on the door panels, plus, he's a much better welder than I am Hahaha.

Disassembled the door panel to use as a template and test fitting so I can trim off whats needed. Thanks to Nissan's design, most of the work was done for me already!

Simple tracing and cutting operation like kindergarten lol

Wheel wells are all welded in!  Just have to do some grinding and paint them!

Much better welds then I could lay!  And most of this was done with my welder outta wack (wire feeding issues caused by incorrect adjustments, due to my lack of experience lol). 

Baltic Birch door panel fit perfectly the first time!!!

Going to frame it with angle iron...there will be screws along the perimeter into the edges of the wood...plus more bolts

A shot of how the wood fits in the angle iron.

Cut a piece of 1/2" square tubing to reinforce the window opening and getting ready to tack it in

Tacked in, ground down so I can test fit the interior panel.  Jeremiah will finish welding it in tomorrow 

Interior panel fits like a glove!

Perfect, will be able to tie it in with the plate I'll be making for the mirror section!

That's all from today, more updates tomorrow!

[the_garynator]

About to start another long day of working on the truck.  Jeremiah is coming over again to do some more welding and my sbc expert buddy will be coming by to help button up the rest of the things needed to make it drivable!

 

Got 2 packages today, wheel spacers are here and my new toy, a tapping attachment for my drill press!  Unfortunately when I ordered the wheel spacers I forgot to check if they were hubcentric, I'll probably end up buying new ones, but at least these should get me by for the time being and I'll be able to tell if I need skinnier ones.

 

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Access panel done

 

 

With the spacers, tires clear the fenders and wheel wells with no other modifications needed!

 

More to come soon!

[the_garynator]

This door is going to be ridiculously strong!

Those welds though! So much prettier than what I could have done

So much steel going on this bad boy!

So one of my biggest worries is that my box rise is going to be as high or higher than expected and that I won't be able to wire the dual 1 ohm coils I picked for my neos low enough for the warhorse to make full power. 

I ended up picking this up from a buddy to help him out and because it was a good deal...even though I can still only wire to 1/4 of rated impedance, if the rise is higher than expected,  this should make more power than the warhorse.  It also gives me an option if the rise is significantly less than expected.

Got the throttle cable hooked up and the tps adjusted

Buss bars are good to go for the engine bay, I will be drilling and tapping them to 5/16 at some point when I get my tap attachment set up, but for now this will work. 

Just have to mount them in the engine bay, one will go on top of each wheel well...passenger side will be ground, driver side will be positive. 

Headed back out to the garage shortly to hopefully get her road worthy tonight!