TIG Welding More Parts on the Bibbster 

It’s great. Yours is my favorite channel for the instruction and the work quality. Having more process is really great. Thank you. If you ever see this do you plan on doing anything with the original collector flanges on the headers? Cutting them off and metal finishing or something else? Just curious. Really your content is so worth the wait. Really happy for your success. Take care.

I liked it, it was cool to see you going through the process of doing it.

@@ndevor2554 I have thought about cutting them off, just not 100% what I'm going to do yet

The Fab Forums - Thank you for replying. Enjoying the format.

great to see progress on the bibbster! i want to express my concerns with the "strut bar" and how they are integrated with the turbo mount which then looks tied to the engine. with the forces of the suspension and any aggressive cornering, the engine and the turbo mount will be the parts taking the beating. i would recommend designing a bar to go from one "strut tower" to the other. that way it'll act as a true strut bar and the forces that are applied to it are isolated. however, you did mention that the front is likely to change as the build progresses. just my thoughts. can't wait to see more videos on this build!!

lol...oh yeah

yeah they have been a little erratic as pf late

thanks

yeah figured I would show a lot more of the process vs snippets through music

I have some...just hate all the metal they pick up in the shop

that will be were the fuel cell will be located

for sure

Water meth for cooling

Camber is in too far as it is so they will both need to go out

The heads wont be affected by the little amount of force these will make. think about the forces blower setups apply to cylinder heads with no issues

I already have one

yeah I have tons and buy them by the dozen

Offset is in an effort to make room for the pedal cluster. The body is 8 inches narrower than a stock fox

the chassis tubes are all cleared in Diamond Clear which is what I was sanding off

@@Thefabforums nice I like it. Is it fairly durable?

The Fabrication Series - tinyurl.com/y424hkwm - has a video review of the AHP welders. I am getting the new AHP AlphaTIG 201XD myself. ahpwelds.com/product/ahp-alphatig-201xd

Lol...not sure. I need to measure it

I think you are right. Overall there are now 3 attachment points on the swingarm (plus the coilover) which should mean it doesn't swing anymore.

@@Finnspin_unicycles I don't think it will stop it moving, it will however put side loads on the top mount, create camber gain and potentially fracture a part of the assembly. The craftsmanship is top quality no doubt, but I do think this is an oversight I'm sorry to say.

none of that stuff moves....its all solid. ride height adjustment is all done with the "strut"

@@Thefabforums Hey man thanks for the clarification, for some reason I thought the swing arm had a ram to lay it out, sorry. Awesome fab work.

They were cedar fence pickets

@@Thefabforums Thanks much! Good luck on the continuation of the shop!

Thanks. No, no relation

It's all solid mounted

the top ball joint doesn't move...essentially the "strut" it self just gets longer or shorter to adjust ride height

@@Thefabforums cool, just wondering

not this one

you must have missed it....Meet Cali-Ente. Its a new squarebody c10

Not really

should need any travel. none of that will move

@@Thefabforums I thought you were going to have adjustable ride height using an air or hydraulic cylinder at the back of the arms were they connect to the chassis.

@@Big_D_SD no the hydraulic cylinders are also the struts. They are controlled by accumulators which allow them to work like a sprung system without the springs and will also have the ability to go up and down for ride height adjustment.

No mufflers, hopefully the turbo tones it down a bit

The Fab Forums yeah it will

They will need to be undone

everything is solid...it wont move

none of the upper tubes will ever move its all solid mounted by design, no different than a traditional strut tower on a modern car except I just made everything out of tubes. The lower a arms are the only thing that move. The hydraulic cylinder will be the strut and spring in one with the help of some accumulators.

@@Thefabforums I was speaking with a friend of mine at length about it since he has designed a number of chassis, and he is my go to guy for anything suspension related, and we both had concerns about the heim joints near the engine breaking at the threads. The biggest concern is the two non equidistant heim joints at the bottom (of the top arm at the firewall) are going to cause a rotational twist on that arm, since the whole arm is just like a massive breaker bar with a pivot point. Upward force on the tyre from a road bump is going to act like a multiplier at those heim joints since the top arm is going to act like a meter long lever. And while the heim joints would ordinarily allow a certain amount of rotational movement on a single pivot point, having two different axis locked (from the point of inertia) is going to cause them to bind and twist at the weakest point the heim joints. The reason most lower A arms are on the same plane (basically you can put one long bolt through both mount holes) is to stop this rotational twist / binding. They don't have to be absolutely symmetrical from the point of inertia (although desirable) but they do need to be on the same plane. The best example I can think of is a motorbike rear swing arm... Now it doesn't matter if it is a conventional arrangement, or a single sided swing arm like on a lot of Ducati's, that doesn't matter, but what does matter is at the other end where they mount. Usually motorbikes have a long single bolt that goes through both mounting holes, now imagine you keep both holes parallel but you shorten or lengthen one of the swing arm legs by a couple of inches. Even though they are parallel they are no longer rotating in the same plane and will bind and try to rotate around the new axis between them. Even if you didn't want the swing arm to move, let's say we decide to make it a rigid. So we replace the shock with a solid bar. The twist force on the rear trailing arm will still be there even though the swing arm can no longer move, we have built the stress point into the design. The top arms you just fitted to stop the sideways movement adds a third axis on which it is trying to rotate at the same time. Heim joints work well under compression or tension, but are prone to failure when placed in a sideways sheer situation. The top arm lower heim joints are subject to this, but no where near as much as those new bracing pieces will be. The top arms will move under driving conditions, there is just too much mechanical leverage for them not to. It may not be that much, or that obvious (without measuring deflection during driving conditions) but it will cause movement and fatigue over time. The new shorter arms don't have the length of tube to absorb the twist as much as the top arms, and the heim joint seems more predispositioned to sheer.

Hey guys, I appreciate your concern and would be happy to address them in more detail. I think me making a private video for you guys may be the easiest. Shoot me an email and I will supply you the link once finished.

@@DodgyBrothersEngineering got it

yeah but it cant bottom out really because it has enough travel to lay the chassis on the ground

everything is designed to be solid. none of the upper bars and heims will be moving. Think of it just like a traditional strut tower on a modern car but made with heims and tubes.

@@Thefabforums ah, okay :-) i thought it was going to have inboard airbags move the entire strut and everything up and down. i must not have been paying attention ;-) thanks for the reply, and thanks for sharing cool videos. i am really envious of your new shop, it's awesome :-)

@@KTX666 thanks man. In the very beginning I was talking about doing inboard hydraulic cylinders with normal struts and springs but changed it to what I have now

@@Thefabforums see, i wasn't paying attention ;-) well i did in the beginning, but not so much later on, apparently :-D now i'm at ease, and is confident it will be even more awesome :-) keep up the good work.

yeah its engineered to do that. thats how the camber is adjusted

I think that's the special fusion tack setting he has on his welder. He talked about it in a recent video.

It's the tack feature the Magicwave has. It basically flutters the arch for a specified amount of time.

boom !

Personally I like the editing on this. I stopped filming everything too. Most people don’t care about how you got something done, just want to see things fitted.

No...will just run some water meth if needed.

The Fab Forums cool. I run no intercooler on a blow through setup. On pump gas and water/meth setup. How high boost you planning ?

@@jerr6 not much, just gonna be a cruiser

no its all solid mounted

yes and yes