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Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
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Boomtacoma's Buggy Build
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Boomtacoma01
Tommy want wingy..
Haltech goodies
Still waiting on my Atlas so, been killing time on other things.
Nathan came by to assist with a fabricated cold side intake pipe. He 3D printed some 2" straight and 22 degree pie cut pieces and we managed to route the crossover a little closer to the engine and reduced some of the 90s to help streamline it a bit better. The tight radius bends that are achieved with the pie cuts are so much cleaner than what I had before. There is still enough wiggle room for some alignment on the install when it is all fabbed out of aluminum. The silicone couplers total. Had to use the middle tee since it was 54 bucks
. I couldn't not use it at that price..
Still waiting on my Atlas so, been killing time on other things.
Nathan came by to assist with a fabricated cold side intake pipe. He 3D printed some 2" straight and 22 degree pie cut pieces and we managed to route the crossover a little closer to the engine and reduced some of the 90s to help streamline it a bit better. The tight radius bends that are achieved with the pie cuts are so much cleaner than what I had before. There is still enough wiggle room for some alignment on the install when it is all fabbed out of aluminum. The silicone couplers total. Had to use the middle tee since it was 54 bucks
. I couldn't not use it at that price..
Silverback
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Looking too damn good to use that middle T as it is. That middle T needs to be aluminum.
Boomtacoma01
Tommy want wingy..
I was thinking that too. It will be hidden behind my radiator anyways..
Boomtacoma01
Tommy want wingy..
Atlas came in earlier last week and I finally got a chance to swing by and pick it up .
Promptly got it unboxed and stabbed into place.
I mocked up the seats and mounts. 1st try was with 1.75" DOM tube, FAIL. I wasn't happy with the height. No pics because time and material wasted.
I'm going to move and modify my Trans Xmember and try to lower the transmission and clock the atlas almost flat. Second try was with 1.25" DOM, this seems to be the path forward. I cut the tacks last night and moved it towards the rear to get the seats down about 3 inches. There is still a little more to be had. Planning on integrating the Atlas shifter mount to the the front seat mount tube. Looks like there is room and they will be easy to reach and out of the way of my right leg.
Might as well get these as low as possible. I found some rubber vibration mounts at McMaster with 12mm x 1.75 studs to thread into the tail shaft housing and will make a base with some 3in wide channel iron (or something similar) which will mount to the top of the Xmember. The current rear trans mount is just too tall an this will buy me another inch or so. This will hopefully get the seats in place and at an acceptable height.
Also, tacked in the orbital mount and column mount assembly just to see where it's going to live. I may need to move up to a 12in steering column from the 9.5" one I currently have or just modify the column mount I currently have.
Promptly got it unboxed and stabbed into place.
I mocked up the seats and mounts. 1st try was with 1.75" DOM tube, FAIL. I wasn't happy with the height. No pics because time and material wasted
.I'm going to move and modify my Trans Xmember and try to lower the transmission and clock the atlas almost flat. Second try was with 1.25" DOM, this seems to be the path forward. I cut the tacks last night and moved it towards the rear to get the seats down about 3 inches. There is still a little more to be had. Planning on integrating the Atlas shifter mount to the the front seat mount tube. Looks like there is room and they will be easy to reach and out of the way of my right leg.
Might as well get these as low as possible. I found some rubber vibration mounts at McMaster with 12mm x 1.75 studs to thread into the tail shaft housing and will make a base with some 3in wide channel iron (or something similar) which will mount to the top of the Xmember. The current rear trans mount is just too tall an this will buy me another inch or so. This will hopefully get the seats in place and at an acceptable height.
Also, tacked in the orbital mount and column mount assembly just to see where it's going to live. I may need to move up to a 12in steering column from the 9.5" one I currently have or just modify the column mount I currently have.
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Baller status 
Boomtacoma01
Tommy want wingy..
Finalized the seat mounts (I hope). I ended up lowering the Trans X member and using some 1.25" DOM to lower the seats in the chassis.
I tacked in a TMR Atlas tail shaft support with some 1.25" .250 square tube but am unsure if I like it or if its necessary.
Battery will be mounted in the tray between the seats and in front of the coolers. I may add some expanded metal on the sections each side of the battery for some additional storage areas.
Extended the downpipe 3" from the turbo to lower the plex joint and muffler to where it should make the pass side floor a bit easier to fabricate. I will have to rework my trans cooler fittings since they are getting pretty close. Muffler is a 3" in/out Flowmaster FX. Hopefully its not too ricey..
Snagged these Fluidyne E-Line coolers from summit when they were on sale. One will be for the transmission and the other for the steering.
Started on the fuel cell mount, ran out of gas per usual.
To Do:
I tacked in a TMR Atlas tail shaft support with some 1.25" .250 square tube but am unsure if I like it or if its necessary.
Battery will be mounted in the tray between the seats and in front of the coolers. I may add some expanded metal on the sections each side of the battery for some additional storage areas.
Extended the downpipe 3" from the turbo to lower the plex joint and muffler to where it should make the pass side floor a bit easier to fabricate. I will have to rework my trans cooler fittings since they are getting pretty close. Muffler is a 3" in/out Flowmaster FX. Hopefully its not too ricey..
Snagged these Fluidyne E-Line coolers from summit when they were on sale. One will be for the transmission and the other for the steering.
Started on the fuel cell mount, ran out of gas per usual.
To Do:
- Finish welding out motor mounts. Reinstall Wastegate and turbo oil drain.
- Fab fuel cell mount, may need an Idea or 2 since the 8 gallon cell I plan to use has a sump
- Mount the storage rack above the fuel cell.
- Ice Chest mount behind fuel cell
- Drink beer in shop
- Mount brake pedal and accelerator pedal
- Figure out where all the Steering system components will be located under in the engine bay
- Work on front driveshaft midship mount
- Mount headrests
- Drink beer in shop
- Harness mounts
- Design shift lever mount for Atlas
- Dog house design
- Plumb Turbo to Throttle body
- Reinstall radiator
- Drink beer in shop
- Floor pans for diver and passenger side
- Figure out skid plate mounting for Transmission and engine
- Spend a lot more $$$ on parts (40spl GW 3rd, Switch Pros RCR12, RadDesigns VX shifter, calipers and pads from Branik, 38spl outers from Branik, inner shafts from ECGS)
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Silverback
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So you will be done by Labor Day? Shotgun!!
Boomtacoma01
Tommy want wingy..
negative . shooting for December-ish.
. shooting for December-ish.
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
LOL. Well my ribs are still healing so that works better. . Serious. Just riding around in the kids Jeep hurts my rigs. Those Rubicon seats are made to hold folks in place. Shit hurts in corners and bumps. But it’s looking great man, can’t wait to see it up and running.
. Serious. Just riding around in the kids Jeep hurts my rigs. Those Rubicon seats are made to hold folks in place. Shit hurts in corners and bumps. But it’s looking great man, can’t wait to see it up and running.
Boomtacoma01
Tommy want wingy..
Got back from Cancun last night. Time to get to work on this again. I think I'm going to add a 3" v-band and about 6 more inches (LOL) of exhaust tube in front of the the flex joint to be able to make the assembly removable (if need be)