The Wall *Worklog w Pics*

[forceofwill 10+ year member]

Indeed, I wish I didn't need my backseats. Keep em comin.

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

Indeed, I wish I didn't need my backseats. Keep em comin.

Just get a station wagon //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

nice shirt

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

nice shirt

Thanks

 

[Anonymous User 10+ year member]

oooooo...walling off a dodge neon i see. cant wait to see how it looks after its installed

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

Speaking of going back stock........car rides the same. here is a pic of everything back in, seats clipped and bolted in place after the back deck was taken out as well.

Now i knew the side was going to be hard...and getting measurements were next to impossible. but i did know what was important....total height, at the front of the box, and at the rear of the enclosure. Instead of just making a rectangle, i wanted to take advantage of the fact that i have 39 inches of depth to work with, as opposed to 17, if it did not extend into the trunk. I gained soooo much space, as well as stability, and mointing points (to the car) by removing the rear deck, so all in all, it was pretty much a must.

Here is a shot of the first time i implemented cardboard into building anything at all.....and i really didnt think it was going to workk, but it worked out quite nicely.

and another

And another

i ended up doing a lot of this at night, until it came to cutting and all that stuff.

Front Seats Removed.....for the first time

The original bottom, which is indeed the bottom of the enclosure, but it would have killed me had i not replaced it with something much larger, and more sturdy

Testing of putting the side in

more pics to come.....

 

[THUNDERBIRD 10+ year member]

u better reinforce that cut out part with some square tubing kuz i cut out alot of the strength of the rear of the car

 

[ssj2xxgotenxx 10+ year member]

LOL... that's what you call DIY.... I like the goggles. Safety FIRST!

 

[TooLowTooGo 10+ year member]

looking good!!!

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

Yes i really like how that back piece fit along the back so perfect....like most i hadnt seen.

it was cool.

More pics.....

the new and improver larger bottom piece.....it started out 57x36, and pretty much stayed that way. this is the piece that gets bolted to the car inside the trunk, with lots of mounting hardware.

If you can see the lines there, thats the countour that i cut it as to fit my car.

The first batch of wood, that i had cut the home depot.......

there is 3 sheets od MDF cut down to usable amounts......just under 300LBS of MDF went into the project. thats a lot of wood

Front seats had to be taken out, in order to have any room to work with, whatsoever

Saw this car on the way back from Home Depot......its an older el camino, wth flames, and a wood grain airbrush pattern beyond the flames......its peyyyymp

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

some of the mounting hardware used. I use more, and bigger bolts, as well as a section of sheet metal on the underside that i didnt get pics of, but thats to ensure that if i crash, it wont come forward an smash me.

no total insurance on that though....

heres the first side piece, I cut it using the cardboard template, but as you see the second line on there, i had to trim it down a little, to allow for the second, unplanned bottom sheet.

traced the second one from the first, as it makes things much easier.

Original ride height, just over 28.25 inches

2 layers of peal n seal in the trunk. It helped out marginally, but made the trunk a lot heavier, but didnt do too much, as far as suppressing the rattles are concerned.

Wouldnt really expect 2 layers to do that much though

 

[d cha p 10+ year member]

very cool.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

now build it already lol
id try and cut the rear deck as much out as you can, but i would also wanna put some kind of strut bar in. i dont know how comfertable id feel without a brace between each struts, thats what that horizontal thing is

Can't read Mr. Wrekc??!?!?!

It's done already //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

nG

 

[ssj2xxgotenxx 10+ year member]

Make sure you sand those cuts down //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Pop da Hatch 10+ year member]

more pics...............

saw you posted that pic in the Loud daily thread, looked really good.