My garage built rollbar

 

that is a sweet roll bar dude!

 

That looks pretty nice. Do you have the tool at home to bend the piping? If so what one do you have and where did you get it?

 

Thanks! My buddy has the bender which he bought from trick tools. I forgot the model # but they have a few listed there.

 

i made this up this morning, for my car trailer, replaces the handle on the tongue jack

 

Pretty slick! Using a drill or impact to raise/lower?

 

im putting a box on the tongue to hold chain binders,ratchet straps,tools ect, and the handle would hit the box, so i made the hex the same as the lugs and ill just use a ratchet with extension to clear the box to raise and lower.

 

Never would have thought of that. Glad you said something though, because after thinking about it, I'd never clear the handle if I put a winch box on my 16' open, which I've been considering.

 

Don't hate

 

Here are a couple of pictures from my current project (an atom-esque locost).

Floor mounted pedal assembly:



Front subframe with the suspension assembled to check clearances:

 

Pushrod setup, NICE!

 

I was thinking of building something similar, but to copy this



And here is what I made out of a 30mm shell with laser etched. I'm thinking of making one more with deeper laser cuts

 

What hub carriers are those? I'm about to construct a double wishbone setup as well, and those look perfect!

 

They're Miata spindles and brakes of course . The lower ball joints, poly bushinngs, and tie rod ends are Miata as well. While the upper ball joints are tie rod ends from a 75 Mazda B1600 (MOOG ES2074R) and the steering rack is an 84 Corvette rack that has been narrowed by ~6". If you are solid modeling everything the models for all these parts can be downloaded for free from http://locostcadfiles.wikispaces.com/ in either STEP or SolidWorks 2010 format. This is my end goal:

 

Here is my first post and my first Miata. The heat shield was broken so i made a new one. The dip stick broke when getting the old shield off.Made a new dip handle[IMG][/IMG]

 

All kinds of good stuff in this forum!
I upgraded my oil pressure and water temp gauges:

Then added 4 more gauges across the top of the tombstone:

Very tight fit:

 

I love those gauges in the dash cluster. I should probably do those as well.

 

I've got a question, and i suppose this is the most appropriate thread to post it in.

I'm working at a machine shop as a welder fabricator. Basically, i need to get some measuring tools. Caliper, scales, micrometer, machinist tools, ect. I could ask the guys in the shop, but they're all old school and order out of a catalog.

Anyone have any other retailers they've trusted in the past.

First thing that comes to mind is Metal working products from MSC Industrial Supply

 

Go to the places that hobby machinsts use. Shars.com, Little machine shop, etc.

I bought everything used on Craigslist. Much better prices.

 

I've saw some stuff on craigslist, but i question it's accuracy, as most of it is pretty old.

I'll check out those sites, thanks.