1964 Dodge A-100 Hot rod sort of rat rod build thread.

First time I have dimple died holes. Pretty cool. 18 ga steel.

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Main turbo mount and support. You can see it from the front and back so I wanted it to have some depth with the holes. Super happy with this. A little Overkill using 095 tubing. LOL. I use some energy suspension super dense bushings at the bottom to give it a little bit of cushion versus bolting directly to the aluminum tabs on the transmission. I still need one more gusset going down from under the turbo below the intake into the valley area.

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This weekend's project. Front turbo bracket. Now I just have to weld tabs in two places and mount it. This piece was a lot of fun to build. That little dude was a lot of work.

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This should be enough to piss my neighbors off. He only had blue in stock so I will exchange the wastegate for a black one. Still need to weld a little exhaust tip on the wastegate. Hopefully this week I can get all this over to Affordable powder coat and get the exhaust Ceracoated. We do the burnt bronze on a lot of customer stuff and it's a real nice color. The yellow Corvette exhaust is that color as well I believe. My kids brought over a little mini keg of German beer yesterday and dang I'm feeling it today. Think I might have to quit a little early.

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I guess they call it prioritizing the exhaust flow for the wastegate. I think I'll have enough air going to it. So we stuck with 45 mm. Spring only no boost controller.

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I am thinking I want to abandon my double chain steering unit and go back to double v dog 90° gearboxes. I just think it would be safer. Lighter weight. Also just a single steering shaft going from the top to the bottom letting a lot more air flow go through to the radiator. 



 
Was able to get through to flaming Rivers tech department pretty easy this morning. He said he has had customers run two of these units without a problem. He says these are robust and hold up well. It's still a one-to-one ratio so my rotation should be the same. The only issue I have is the steering is going to be quicker than the Corvette rack would be. I'm just not sure what that would do to the driveability. It might get tight with the length of the steering column and trying to fit it in there but these units look pretty compact. Going this route would make building the steering system 10 times easier and way less time. That chain gear drive deal would be a major project to build. The other thing going this route I have a single 3/4 steering shaft going through the floor that would need to be sealed. Have a plate that bolts to the floor with maybe just a rubber lip seal on it. That seal would have to be slid up the shaft before everything is bolted together. 

 
Dune-Track-N said:
wow $800-$1500 for the VDOG https://www.flamingriver.com/vdog-variable-angle-gear

I need something like that for my build but that's out of the budget.... guess I better find the one you mentioned 10 pages back
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You can buy a used Nissan Pathfinder 90° box. It is basically the same thing but doesn't have the 35° gimbal. I had spent hours reaching out to all kinds of people on Facebook trying to find one of those with under 100,000 miles. Almost impossible to find. Most of them have 150,000 plus miles on them.

 
Ready to go to ceramic coat. Happy with how all the brackets came out. We run the burnt bronze on a lot of customer vehicles but I also ordered from cerakote today a vortex bronze sample which is a little darker. I think I'm going to powder the cold side of the turbo satin black.

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This is the Vortex bronze. A little darker.

 Says it has a red hue so it will be interesting.  I am guessing Burnt bronze will still be the color. They also have a piston coat which has more gold in it. Ordered that one as well. 

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80 ft of 1 5/8 by .120 wall. Looking online it looks to be about 2 lb per foot so that will add some weight for sure. That cab is going to get very tight with the cage in there.

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This will be interesting to say the least. I did call flaming River back one more time and told them I had an electric servo putting 90 ft pounds of torque that will run through both gearboxes. He said no problem and they have people that started putting these on in 2018 and have not had any issues. It actually makes the steering system fairly easy to build other than getting the rack set correctly without bump steer. After talking to the guys in the shop some more I think I'm going to remote mount the hydroboost way in the back of the truck in this spot. Maybe even leave it exposed. Do a double cable setup for redundancy. Then have to build fulcrums to pull on the cable on one end and push on the hydroboost on the other end. Sounds easy right? I had originally planned on cutting a hole in the front floor board so I could get to the master cylinder to add brake fluid. With a remote mounted and easy access that would not be an issue. Most likely I will end up covering it with a little piece of bed back there that is removable or has a hinge. Pretty hard to make a big ugly Hydra boost and master cylinder look cool. I also moved the steering column up a little bit more and I think this will be the final location once I start mounting it. The panel going across the dash with all the gauges will be in two sections and get installed after the column is installed.

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With the factory Corvette rack one full turn of the steering wheel moves the rack 2.090 in. These photos show how far the steering turns at that amount. (On the car it will go further but on the truck I don't think I have the room anyway) The gear one super rack is 4 inches lock to lock. 1.5 turns lock to lock. So three quarters of a turn on the gear one rack versus one full turn on the stock steering to move it the same distance. I have to think that will be okay? Could the steering be too quick though? I could change the gear ratio in my chain drive setup if I wanted while building it. Those gears will get welded to the double d shaft so it will be hard to just change gears in that setup once I build it.

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Old post from earlier in the thread. I am still worried about the ratio though. Being too quick

 
Kraut_n_Rice said:
Have you tried to see if you could get a steering quickener installed backwards in between the column and rack?

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Well isn't that cool! Did not know these existed. Says you can speed up or slow the steering down. In my case it would need to slow it down. This would be simple to add later on. Would take brackets to mount and then add a couple more u-joints. Now I won't worry about it. Consensus in the shop is a little quicker steering for this truck will be fine. Just need to get used to it.  :dude: Would like the see the inside of one of these and the gears. 

 
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