The Saturn: Death-Horn Build/Addition (10kw+)

[Savag3 10+ year member]

And honestly, whats a couple grand here n there over the course of a lifetime...? that's just a drop in the bucket..i'll gladly spend my worthless money for something i want/makes me happy.

^ ^ ^ ^ ^

THIS

 

[Jaredturp 10+ year member]

Build is looking great man. Can't wait to see the death horn construction.

 

[Annnarbor84 5,000+ posts]

I know these words won't be welcomed, and probably sound like yer dad..... (is he 48? if so he can come over and have a beer with me in june on my b'day!) but in about 10-15 years you're going to stumble across a file in a drawer with all your drawings, and worse, all your receipts, and you aren't going to working full time anymore because all those nights contorting your body caught up and your back is fried.... and say:
what the hell was I smoking when I thought I had to have this?

Yeah, I know, throw me out of here.

I'm there now and you just warn somebody in 10-15 years, nobody did me that favor. I'm doing it to you now.

****runs****

(If you FINISH it it ain't so bad)

2 of my projects in the day:

corvette IASCA pictures by batvette - Photobucket

Corvette tied for first in points in Southern California IASCA 601+ novice in '98, qualified for invite to world finals. Tow van blew up halfway there.

Trophied in several shows the next season as expert 601+. Quit IASCA when I got judging credentials in USAC. Not stealing your thunder, just saw your post and thought "Hmmm... so I thought Femi Adeoke finished those horns in the Grand Prix.. does he have a Saturn now and is STILL crazy?" (old schoolers know who and what I mean- the guy set his goals high!)

And the car I tied for first in points with and faced all season was a Saturn wagon.

That hurst is the shit!!

 

[Pioneer~Saturn 5,000+ posts]

Tomorrow I should have some pics to post of some work being done, going to get a headstart on this for saturday //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[528hz 10+ year member]

This is going to be amazing! God I can't wait, like the others, to see some vids of this thing causing some damage!

Wish I had the balls to do something like this...

 

[Pioneer~Saturn 5,000+ posts]

Lol thanks, man. I cant wait either, and im thinking a vine with a monkey on it as a port keeper...any thoughts? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[O.G. D-Wet 10+ year member]

A) I want to see more of this build ASAP!!! The windows came out CLEAN!

B) WTF is ontop of that hurst??? I'm confused!

 

[Annnarbor84 5,000+ posts]

A) I want to see more of this build ASAP!!! The windows came out CLEAN!B) WTF is ontop of that hurst??? I'm confused!

Appears to be some coffin/spaceship

 

[Pioneer~Saturn 5,000+ posts]

Got two ribs put in at the front of the horn. At the front the sides will slant slightly like you can see, just trying to keep the basic contour of the car and make the opening as large as possible.

More tomorrow //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Pioneer~Saturn 5,000+ posts]

Alright...got the back window pulled this morning..

Made myself a bridge to get right over the port to do work...

What i had to start...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

Got the lower hump glassed down into the port...

Prepped the top piece with the pocket-hole jig...

 

[Pioneer~Saturn 5,000+ posts]

More glass added, upto one layer of cloth and 4 layers of mat at this point iirc...

This is what doin work looks like //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Got the contour for the side cut out of some birch..

Got them screwed down...

And I got upto 6 layers of mat ontop of the cloth layer iirc, bodyfilled a bit, sanded, then a layer of milkshake put on..

Still a bit shotty on even'ness but its getting there...more tomorrow, the bottom hump should be done and the back piece mounted and reinforced/glassed from behind if weathers nice...

And the side pieces arent lined up with the vertical pieces because im going to glass over to the pillar pretty drastically and that will fill the gap in //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Jaredturp 10+ year member]

Great progress!

 

[O.G. D-Wet 10+ year member]

this is so **** crazy. Sand dat ho silky smoooth!

 

[Pioneer~Saturn 5,000+ posts]

Thanks guys. More progress later but I forgot I have some family stuff around dinner time so not a full day of work like yesterday //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[528hz 10+ year member]

In deed...that is putting in work! Great progress!