Well as promised the air intake has been installed.
A look from the under the frame.
Front view of the air cleaner setup.
Drilled out and welded in tubing to run the electric wiring thru the frame.
Used some sallow boxes and modified them to work for what we needed.
Ran a total of 11 circuits leaving us with one to spare if we need it. Also started to run the propane lines for ovens and water heater. We used 3/4 flex piping with special fitting that work with hard pipe. Used the hard pipe for hard 90 turns and T fittings. You can see the propane line for the oven in this picture.
Ran the propane line in the chase that will have a removable panel for maintenance if needed.
Install the wheel wells and the upper flooring. The flooring is just fitted for now but will be welded in after we are sure that we didn't forget something.
A look from the other side. If you're wondering why the two wheel wells are different there is a good reason. We have to do some custom work to one of the refrigeration unit to fit over the wheel well, so we want it to be as small as possible. All so we could go 4" lower.
We got all the engineering worked out for the back of the box and got the parts back from BBC Steel. Time now to put the five part together to make one. The straight leg on this part will be cut off. It was use as a guide to form the curve in the part.
Starting to fit the parts in.
This is the top part of the piece.
We made the parts long so that we could cut the finished part to fit. Chris made the part off the frame 2" because of the extra length of the part. Here we have one of the sides and the top clamp together. We used all the clamps in the shop and still had to buy more to hold everything together.
Looking up at the part.
It took a lot of patience and time to put this part together. Here Chris has it tacked and is ready to do the finial welding.
This is one awesome looking part that all started out as flat sheet metal.
Chris will cut the part where it intersects the frame and then move the part forward 2". Then weld it to the frame to make one continuous frame part.
Here it is all put together. You will not see this part after all the sheet metal is on. It is for structural purposes only. Don't mind all the wiring mess it will be all be tidied up soon.
Now that the back structural part is done I needed to come up with what I was going to do for taillights. We where trowing a lot of ideas around but hadn't made our choice yet. We wanted to do something different so we came up with 70-73 Camaro taillight and use Marquez design inserts. But we want it to be three lights instead of two.
We took two sets of the stock bucket housings and cut each of them in half and glued them together to make a three light housing.
Still need to be sanded and repainted but are ready too be fitted to the frame.
Chris finish up all the final welding on frame structure so that we could cycle the suspension for the Accuair sensors. We were concerned that the box frame could get tweaked if we didn't. This is the front sensor installed. This is at full extension of the travel.
This is the back sensor at mid travel.
Both rear sensors.
This is the truck at full extension.
Here we have it at its lowest.
A nice picture from ground zero. Ride height will be about 4" from this. Next up we will start working on the rocker panels and working our way up from there.
