Share your personal fabrications/builds?

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I would like to see people's homemade stuff. I know you ladies and gents are out there. Doesn't need to: live up to others expectations, please the masses, be perfect, made with computers or cnc tubing benders. Or even sandcar related. Maybe you built a go-kart for you kid, or a special tool/wrench. I will share a 5 link bearing carrier for starters. 

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We did a LOT of modifications to our VeeWee over the years we had it. Mostly the projects stemmed from breaking stuff.  a 2.3L VeeWee with almost zero travel has to work damm hard to keep up with long travel LS's.  LOL.  this project was mostly about getting my boys into the garage & spending some time building something together.  they helped out with just about all of it. 

Made a little lemon aide out of a broken wheel.  I do a lot of this kind of repurposing.  I enjoy it.

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Bobalos, I have followed your mods on here. Like it! Rockwood, I hope all turned out ok. I dune with an awesome bunch of guys, from all over. Mostly all self built cars. Those that aren't have their own special characters. I hope my duning buddy from Wichita will show his passenger side adjustable foot rest that he built. I admired it on our last trip. (He will know who he is) Here is a failed attempt at 1 of my sets of Subaru headers. Too restricted. Turbo said "No way"! (Not the pic I was hoping for, must have deleted)

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Great stuff, love threads like these.

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I love to lurk on these threads, thanks

 
Those are all perfect examples.  I "modified" an aluminum flatbed trailer for my buggy, but EVEN I am too embarrassed to show it!!! Yours is much nicer. This is another set of headers I just built. Hoping they pass the dyno test.

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My pride and joy from 4 years ago. Took a $200 harbor freight trailer and made it a tiny camper. We have had so much fun with this thing. looking to go a tad bigger before the season ramps back up. 

The entire build starts here  




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My newest air filter. The sides will be enclosed with a short tube attached for air inlets to each side. So I can use normal pre-filters on them. Budlight-foot rest?

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1 hour ago, SPODE said:

My pride and joy from 4 years ago. Took a $200 harbor freight trailer and made it a tiny camper. We have had so much fun with this thing. looking to go a tad bigger before the season ramps back up. 

The entire build starts here  

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Makes ALL the difference when your young'uns are involved!

 
2TurboFords, did you go from beam front to a-arm? I have a buddy that designed and builds "replacement" a-arm suspension.  And to any critics, yes he knows his geometry!  (I don't) Funny, I was going to list "gates for your house" in the header for this thread. That bike reminds me of the side-hack, choppers, and wobble wheeled bikes we built as kids. I even remember breaking the handlebars off my tricycle,  and my dad welding a T shaped set out of water pipe, and welding that to the front wheel! Oh, the good ol' days.

This is what I came up for suspension:

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