Massive Speed Race Wagon 2010 Build Coverage

where you at?

nw indiana 1.75 hours away on a good day

6:45ish

Oh, I'll be there!!!

Nah uhh

if i would have left when i signed on i would be almost there.

hoser

Got a lot of work done tonight. It actually looks like a car now. Pics to come in the morning...

Got a lot of work done tonight. It actually looks like a car now. Pics to come in the morning...

-lk

Lookin good! Only thing that would concern me would be the new frame welded to the old frame, I'd be worried about it breaking, especially on that corner. Then again, I'm not the best welder in the world and have never had any of my weld jobs put through any real stress.

On a side note, want to fix my car too? I'll let you donate a Massive shirt for me to wear to the track!

Yeah, that was definitely a concern of mine.

Good news is the cut is after the supension/subframe pickup points, so its not going see a TON of stress (though it does get the motor mount!).  In this pic you see we first butt welded it:

and then ground and wrapped it in more metal, rewelded, effectively "bridging" the two:

Inside

and out

Truth is I'm no bodyman, so I cant' say if this is the recommended method, but it sure seems pretty solid. 

What needs to be fixed on your car, Jake?

The Weld looks fine to me the only thing i would of done is welded an extra plate over top for extra support.

See above post Moose

dumb ass

Cant wait to biuld the cage!!

man that thing is coming along fast.

Ok, didn't know about the butt weld and the reinforcement weld. Makes me feel a ton better knowing that!

On my car, it's a lot of bodywork, but I'd like to show you the underside sometime. Aparently when the rear end came apart the first time, the guy lifted it and welded everything back into place. Well, having it in the air while doing that, I guess he welded it to the poitn where the rear suspension was un-moveable. He then re-welded everything back to what it is today. It's something of a scary sight if you look under the rear of my car. I had to replace the front frame piece that goes across both frame rails and houses the steering rack, the one that was in the car saw a few wall shots and as a result was actually tearing apart. Yeah, 1/8" thick or better steel, literally tearing like a piece of paper. Got worse every race till I found another Civic at the junkyard with that frame piece essentially hanging off the car. Lucky! So replaced and welded supports to the weak points on it just in case of another wall shot. But I got a motor mount that's basically missing, just a couple pieces of it remain on the car, that's gotta get done, ton of body work to straighten out the dents and make it look better, and gotta look over the rear end welding and possibly re-weld parts of it. Unfortunately I only have so much room, and pretty much have to leave the car on the trailer due to lack of said room. Oh, and I have to reattach the exhaust to the manifold pipe. The rest of the exhaust is literally welded to the car, just the 1 part that wasn't came off.

But yeah, that car is coming together nicely! Getting to the point where I can't wait for race season to start again!