First Tuber: Rampage

[IronOx]

i'm going to bend the front shock hoops / belly of the cage on money hopefully. i also plan to fix the rear of it with some finess and a rose bud. today when i was trying to get both sides of the top the same some retard in my class (how he got it i dont know) was flexing the main part of the frame in and out. i went off on him and got my shit and went to a diff part of the shop. so hopefully me and my friend grider can get the ass of it looking halfway descent again. its all made out of 1/4" round stock and is being mig welded together. i dont know if i'm going to grind down the joints or not, i probably will but not all the way. stuff is still going to be added and some or biggest part of the joints needed to be fixed or add more of a weld to it. this is my first but definately not my last.

i'm going to put a locked t3 trans in it and a set of locked axial axles. its going to be 1.9 and i dont know what rim/tire configuration yet.

[mrpink]

ok.

do you have a drawing or a plan on where you are wanting to go with it? posting that may help.

p!nK

[IronOx]

yeah i'll post up in a min.

[IronOx]

and i just realised that this needs to be moved to the ax10 section. well it doesnt have to since i'd use tlt axles if i could find some. but i'll most likely end up with ax10s. and thats just a simple side view of what its going to look like

[rckjeep]

I like it a lot.

[mrpink]

Originally Posted by rckjeep

I like it a lot.

so much you went out and built yourself one right??

IronOx... what part of that drawing have you already built? I am having trouble placing it.

p!nK

[rckjeep]

Originally Posted by mrpink

so much you went out and built yourself one right??p!nK

Yup it only took like 3 hours too. and now it's built

[IronOx]

the part that i was working on was the top. and from looking at the ones already built i think i'm going to have to start over =[. ehh, i got about 60 foot of the stuff sitting in my shop. but the one posted by rockjeep is the one i got the idea from.

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where can i get a good bender that'll bend 1/4" round stock? and do you guys think i should drop down to 3/16?

[rckjeep]

Originally Posted by IronOx

the part that i was working on was the top. and from looking at the ones already built i think i'm going to have to start over =[. ehh, i got about 60 foot of the stuff sitting in my shop. but the one posted by rockjeep is the one i got the idea from.

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where can i get a good bender that'll bend 1/4" round stock? and do you guys think i should drop down to 3/16?

Any auto parts store will carry benders, but finding one that will bend solid rod is going to be tough. Look for one that has a tight radius and sometihng to follow the tube around the die. I'd switch to 3/16" brakeline. I made mine out of 3/16" cromoly tubing.

[IronOx]

tomarow i'm going to try to finish this baby up. heres some pics of what i've gotten to so far.









let me know what you guys think. and you'll see some more updates tommarow. i just need to get some money to get ax10 tranny/axles. also i'm getting a f350 extended cab off a friend for 100 once i get the money.

Big John