I am still practicing my welding and I know it's not perfect yet, but I think I am getting much better.



this is where you will bolt it


using this to bolt it back down


cut some tabs


weld them on




I was just test fitting it in this car it's going in a diff car.






I also made a stand for my grinder.


Like I said I am still practicing and I have never been taught to weld, just teaching my self, so be nice!!! lol

 

I wouldn't trust the strut mounting nuts to hold any sort of real force considering one of mine broke away from the sheet metal just supporting the hatch.

 

There is not going to be any "real force" right there anyways...

 

I plan on running an X type bar from there to a lower strut bar I am making and then X another bar and bolt it to the mounting bolts on the frame.

What do you guys think of that?

 

you need a bigger base on the grinder stand.

 

Naw it's really thick, just can't tell from the pic. That bitch is heavy!!!

 

Doesn't mean it can't tip over

grinder crotch is a serious medical condition

 

LMAO^^^ lol

Ok enough about the grinder bench I want to know what you guys think about the bar......welds things like that.

 

Welds aren't bad, that bar is pretty much pointless though

 

That is what I am going to make the X bar comming off of it to a strut bar then to the frame rails bolts. I think it would help.

 

it wont help anything at its current place, all its gonna do is snap off and fly out of the window at best :D
Even the X brace should have its upper part in some structural places, such as shock towers and frame rails, etc.

and yeah make the grinder stand base plate bigger, its too late if your nuts get stuck in there.

 

that sounds so painful

 

Cburke...you asked...this is a tough place you know....

The bar, well, I really don't like it. Any real flexing forces that the bar aims to suppress unfortunately don't transmit to the bar itself, they will be absorbed by the tabs. The tabs are thin, with no support, and your at the mercy of the elasticity of the tabs.

Doing a setup like this should be more of a bracket bolted down, with a double shear style heim or just a mounting that puts the forced directly into the crossbar. It's hard to put into words, but essentially what I'm saying is, with a single offset mounting like you have, it just isn't going to be effective. It needs re-engineered bro.

The welds don't look bad, but they don't look good. You wire wheeled them for a reason, so you've removed some things that help to tell you what your doing wrong. It appears that your moving a little too fast and you haven't gotten full penetration in places. The spatter also makes me wonder if it wasn't clean, or if your weld settings weren't really telling you you were wrong.

I'm no MIG master, cause my deal is TIG, but my part time guy is a MIG master. He could probably point out some stuff too because he MIG's daily.

Your on a good track though...keep trying, that's the only way to get better. It'll come, just stick with it and don't take comments personal....just trying to help.

Oh and last thing....that grinder stand is crooked like a roach leg.....

 

Damn with the stand!!! lol j/k that thing was hard to make by my self.

Yeah I really didn't think it was going to do much. The tabs are plenty think though. I wire wheeled it to get some of the slag off, witch from what I am told you really can't do anything about. Please have you MIG guy look at this so he can tell me what he thinks. I was thinking either I was going to fast of not hot enough, but I really don't know.

The other side of the tabs were purple but you can't see any weld coming through.
Shouldn't I see the penetration coming through?

 

No, but that weld is cold.

 

Are you saying no I should not see the weld come through? I just need to move slower?

 

not bad.. more heat, weather it be move slower & turn down the wire feed or to crank up the amperage, either way.. needs to be a little hotter.

I know people are giving you a little bit of a hard time on the structural integrity here but you made an excellent effort. You will learn with more practice.

 

Well thank you very much!!!

 

Turn the wire feed speed up a bit for a little more heat

 

take that contraption down. that bar will end up probly killing some one around you if in an accident.

-good thought but think about how your going to mount something before your going to make it.

-welds lookn pretty for novice good job on that

 

^^^ UMM thanks I guess, but I don't see how it would kill anyone.

 

I don't know enough about structural support to comment on the bar.

Quick question about the stand. Did you use a brake rotor for the base?

 

Yes lol

 

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nice!

 

nice way to use a rotor lol