no one said it was "First on your list" ....

You probably will take this the wrong way, but most believe it shouldn't be on your list.

stop talking him out of it, bubba i think you are doing the right thing since you will be doing metal work in the area anyway

the more I think about it. The more you and him seem right. You are going to be fabbing up in that area. So why not. Do eeet!

oh my bad. i read it as patching/repairing it to stock form would be "on the list" like when i care to i'll fix it. have fun.

thank you, and on top of that don't certain classes require the cars to have tubs (not talking anything in my near future)

You have no need for them unless you plan on back-halving the car, and there are plenty of 3rd gens running single digits on stock style suspension. Do you plan on making the car that fast? If so, I expect to see some real tubs there, not just some pansy minitubs. Otherwise you'll just have to do them again when you back-halve the car and try to stick some monster meats under it.

- Justin

people, just stop responding to this, cause your just gonna get the same automated answer from him saying he's gonna do it, but you know he's not gonna. If he was gonna do half the **** he says he's gonna do, it of been done already, but there are alot of things that prevent him from doing so, so Im not gonna hold my breath , nor really expect him to do this. The car will be sitting on jack stands just like his "other project" for quite a while.

the only thing holding me back is money, and the fact I have nothing else to drive

You don't put all the money you make into your cars, do you?

besides insurance no, I had a little saved up, but rent and phone got to that...I've been out of work sense I got canned 4 days before Christmas. If all goes well I'll be working next week.

damn that sucks. have fun with the tub(girl)ing

Aw Kasey, you had to slip that in :rofl:

BAH!!!!!!!!! i just vomited a bit

Doing tubs isn't a back yard lets try this for the first time job especially if you have no metal/welding experiance that tub is what helps tie the back of the car together on a sub-frame car.

Money holds everyone back.

DUDE!!!!!!!!! What the hell are you doing posting on here and spending all of your money on the car? Your even dumber then I thought you were! GET OFF YOUR ASS AND GET A ****ING JOB!!! Its a win,win situation! You have money, and can save up for the stuff you want later AND we wont have as many of your dumb ass posts around.. WHAT A ****ING BUM!!!!

Oh man, this is going to get good. :D

that is going in the sig section:lol:

you can't be serious, How the hell do you think I've been putting gas in it paying my insurance and keeping my phone on. Every day I've been busting my ass scraping cars, and parting out cars. ****s been slow the last 2 weeks so yea I've been home more, But I have 2 45ft Grumman box trucks to cut down and scrap a 86 suburban and possibly a few others. those to trucks both weigh 10k lbs and are mostly aluminum,I'm splitting the weight with my scrap partner and I'll make $2600 in 4 days, by april 24th I'll have over 6k in the bank just from this month. Come give me **** when you can even fathom having that much at once. Just because I don't have a job doesn't mean I'm not busting my ass all hours of the day. You don't know anything about me, what I do on a daily basis, you have no ****ING. You wanna criticize my ideas, why don't you take a look at your own car.

:nod:

:popcorn:

AFAIK he hasn't even seen his car in well over a month. Last I saw it was sitting outside of Josh's shop waiting for him to bring parts to Josh.

- Justin

F U, pal. :rofl:


Bubba,

Seriously. Don't mini tub or tub the car unless at least one of these things are true:

1.) You need (not WANT) the space.
2.) You will have most of the rear sheetmetal apart anyway
3.) You have the proper tools to do it right
4.) You have the time and/or money to do it right

Take it from me, replacing wheel wells is not fun. 86 T/A did a great job with his but I believe he will concur that it is not exactly "easy" to do.

In your case all you need to do is cut out the metal until you hit good stuff, then make a template out of cardboard to fit the hole in your metal. Transfer that template to sheet metal, cut it out of the metal, form with a torch, fit, weld, and paint. This is not that hard, I've done this a bunch of times on a number of cars. The price of this will be damn near nothing, and you can put the time and money into other parts of the car.

I only said it since they aren't needed on a drag-oriented 3rd gen unless you are FAST. And his car is not (at least not yet).....

- Justin

I was up at the shop last week, it's still sitting there. :D

Yeah, I know what you meant, I am just in a weird mood.