Made a new fairing for my roofrack

Well, last Tuesday i went over to John's shop to borrow his sandblaster. I had a unique idea for a wind fairing for my home built roof rack. I wanted to take some old license plates, sand blast them and rivet them together to create a solid single piece. I'm planning on painting it black once its finished.

After I sandblasted the plates, they came out with a really cool distressed texture, which I'm thinking of leaving as-is... we'll see.

John had some scrap stainless that we cut & bent to fit. We both strained quite a bit trying to get the holes drilled.

it took a few tries to get everything to fit correctly.

The finished product!

cool bus.

Random pics from random meets

I thought i'd post some random pics from the past meets i've hosted at the shop.

This one was taken in my driveway after washing the car.

quick lunch break pics.

Lunch

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Originally uploaded by CondorSpeedShop

Grabbing lunch in Clearwater before the 270 mile drive home.

Waitin'

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I shot this today at my shop with my new iphone app... you going to see a lot more pics like this one.

Suspension update #2

I haven't been happy with the front ride height of my car for a while now. It's set at its lowest setting, and still had about an inch of wheel gap in the front. I took this weekend to rebuild the front suspension. Basically I wanted to give the front another inch of ride height adjustability. I took everything off the car and disassembled front the struts.

I ground down the current spring perch.

I then sanded off all the paint in preparation for the tig welding




I cut some small 1/2" sections off a piece of 2" pipe john had in his scrap bin.


After measuring, I lined everything up and  using john's TIG welder I welded the new spring perches on.

In process.(thanks to my buddy chris for all the action shots. you can visit his photo stream here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocell/)


Finished and ready to install.


I'll be driving up to Clearwater Beach on Tuesday, so I wanted to make sure the car was tip top. I cleaned the engine bay, drained the coolant and replaced a cracked plastic coolant hose buried deep in the engine bay below the intake manifold.


It took a couple hours, but it's all ready to go.