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Team SMD_David
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thought I would share my build.

Vehicle: 1993 Volkswagon jetta Bagged, sittin on stockers for now,(I do have some 18s for it), still need's body work and paint.
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after the tear out of the wood frame I had in there.

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cut out the rear shock tower brace.
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welded in 1" .090 square stock between the strut towers and we are offically underway lol.
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this is where I stopped for the week, I primered it becuase it was raining and I didnt want it to rust up, I regreted it later.
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here is the roof frame, I welded it outside the car.
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[ 02-18-2008, 12:07 AM: Message edited by: Team SMD_David ]

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I thought I would try some differrent tubing for the lower half of the back wall.
1" steel pipe (dynathread schd 30) for fill in pieces.
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since I can get scrap pipe all day long free I decided to try it out, its way heavier than the square stock, I added alot of wieght here.

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I welded in the roof frame directly to the backwall and the car along the top ridgleline on both sides of the car.
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you can also see a floor frame I started, but ended up not using( you will see why later).

welded in some more fill pieces.
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since I am the boss at work, I can borrow some tools when I need to, I use this to cut all of my round steel [Big Grin]
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more filler pieces
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completly filled in.
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figured it would be a good idea to weld the back side too.
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finished the trunk side lower fill, also added a few more pieces to the top, I may add more, not sure yet.
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more of the top back wall.
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I gained a few cubic feet by cutting this lower rear bench step out.
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cleaned up the next weld area
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first step pf the floor welded up
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another angle.
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now Im starting the second stage of the floor trying to follow the contour of the floor pan.
( I need all the airspace I can get)
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finished second stage, if you look closely you can see smoke coming off my earthground. [Eek!]

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this is the mock up of the last stage of the box floor.

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I only get weekends to work on it from now on, I just started working out of town so its gonna slow down abit.

today I welded up the last of the floor, and started figureing out the sides.

most likely I will do the sides like this so I can get as much airspace as possible.
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the last stage of the floor. [Wink]

started by cleaning out the areas where the tubing will be welded to the car.( its never coming out heh)
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fresh roll of wire ( self-shielded flux core .30)
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last 2 pics untill next weekend, I will be picking up 4 or 5 more sticks of 1 1/4 square stock on friday, I need to get the front half of the roof done so I can foam/seal off my sunroof so it will stop leaking.

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see ya next week.
David

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Wow, Nice build!

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Nice!!

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looking good!

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Looking good, Nice step by step, pic by pic build so far

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got equipment picked out already?
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Very nice build, good luck.

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Lookin good, keep up the good work !

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nice work.

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looks like a jail cell,lol. get urself some gas for that welder it will work alot easier. looks great so far!
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nice work

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looking good.

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Thanks for all of the positive comments.

for now I have 2 RE MT 18s, I will eventually change them out for 6 15s(in a sealed clamshell), that arent avialable yet and Im not at liberty to talk about yet.

powermaster D3100's not sure how many I can fit,I would like to get 8 of them in the trunk and 1 under the hood, Iraggi Alt or Alts of I can figure out away to bolt up 2 of them.

Rockford T4000.1BD's 1 per-sub.

3 sets of RE XXX componets, powered by a RF T800.4

cant wait to get home to get some more work done.

I dont mind not having the argon, its been fairly windy and no one will ever see the welds once I start laying down the wood.

David

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thats alot of welding

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I want to see the finished product

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you, me and bunch of other folks.

Its gonna be a long build, while Im not poor I do support a large family and work crazy hours, sometimes in town, sometimes out of town (like now) I have no deadline, But.... I would like to have it playing music by WF's even if its only 2 18s and 1 t4kw and a couple of batts.

stealing a line from a good friend, I'm flying solo on this project, its not extremly hard work, but its time consuming(sp).

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well I didnt intend to get much done tonight, but the wife and kids where gone so

here's what I did tonight.

first I added a fill in piece along the roof frame already in the car.
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next I started the 2nd half of the roof, this is the passenger side starter piece.
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drivers side starter piece.
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both center beams.
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Ill get on it tomorrow evening and all day sunday.

thanks for looking.

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ok im pretty much done for the nite, its cold and raining.

dont know if you have ever sat on cold steel for any amount of time , I'll just say for now it Suckz.

how about some pics???

11am this morning, it looks like early evening its so dark out (big storm in nor cal tonight)
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soon this little flow of water will be a lake
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as you can see by these 2 pics lots of grinding to do.
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first grind of the day, yeah Grinding is sooooo much fun.
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4 18v batteries later
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so then I said ****-it, I need to get some steel in the car.
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