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Old 09-28-2020, 01:29 PM   #26
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Ya rtv900 , I let building my house, bare land to fully finished with only a couple contractors involved, Tearing down and setting up not one but 2 gas stations at our place, with one restored, going to college to learn a trade, mastering the trade then starting a business with absolutely no experience at and winning national awards with my metal work. I restored a few gas pumps out of the hundreds that I collected as well as a very high in barber chair. I have inventions and a patent on an automated pizza toping machine which helped to automate the stuffed pizza curst while working for the Heinz corp. All while raising a family and not bailing on them and being a good father and husband. The thing you need to learn is that everything has it's time and to rush it is foolish. I could go on because I have done a lot more, but I am sure you get the picture and will come up with some smart ass comment anyway. Im almost 60 and have been making money since I was 13 or 14 when I bought my first batch of chickens so I could go around selling chicken meat to friends and people in the area. LOL
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Old 09-28-2020, 04:07 PM   #27
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1) So back in your day you went to college for a trade?
ok, makes no sense but I'll go with it.
2) You collected HUNDREDS of gas pumps and restored "a few".
Ok, a few out of hundreds IS in fact believable in this case so I'm good there.
3) A high end barber chair??
Gotta admit that's the first time I've heard of anyone who restored a barber chair but it does sound cool. (being serious on this one)
4) You have patents for pizza topping? While working for Heinz?
So do they own the patents or do you???? Are these patents worth anything? My business has some candy machine patents from before I was born and they are worth less than the paper they are printed on at this point. I'd sell them for a case of good beer

5) And, to rush the project would be foolish.
Got it.
It's been a half century you know, you got out of "rushing it" territory about 48 years ago.

This does bring back memories about an old dude I bought the seat frame for my truck from. He was 75 or 80, had probably 25 vehicles scattered around his property literally disintegrating into the ground, some from the 30's. Each one was in worse condition than the next. The second I wanted to buy a seat out of his 1950 truck (that had clearly been sitting untouched for decades) he starts going on and on about how if he goes to restore the truck then he won't have the seat, blah blah blah, moaning and groaning about the price I offered.
I was about to ask him if he was waiting for his 90th birthday to start the job but I had to pretend he wasn't senile until I got the seat frame in my possession.
He had chickens roaming around his property too as a matter of fact.

Wait a second????? Do you live off Rt 30 near some crappy restaurant with a green roof in Pennsylvania?
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Old 09-28-2020, 07:30 PM   #28
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Dude, rtv900, did you have a rough day bud? Get off his nuts, you dont need to be in here crapping all over the place. You dont need to post. Get off his nuts. Take off. Go have quiet time.

OP, look for a nissan hardbody that a guy converted a full suby drivetrain into, its in the conversion subforums, several years old. You might find some parallels there
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Old 09-28-2020, 07:41 PM   #29
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This is one of the stations I moved up here and some gas pumps and barber chair restored. I would never dump that kind of time into restoring another chair or gas pump. I like seeing them in their discovered condition. My vauxhall wont be a show car, it will be a daily driver that will run good. You see I dont take the easy way. I could have put up a building and hung cheap signs and called it a gas station, but I chose the hard way.
Yes I have had very little help. Everything has it's time. Yes I have an invention on the market and it sells. Yes the other invention is partially in my name. I invented it and created it.
I attached the link to a Hardtop I built for our cabin cruiser. 3 month project for both front and back sections. stipulation was it had to look factory. and it did.
http://www.clubsearay.com/index.php?...p.86149/page-4
But I got to say, this is all crap that really means nothing. Staying married for 37 years to a wonderful woman and raising 2 boys who believe in God and know which president to vote for are my rewards. I am truly bless, truly bless



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Old 10-07-2020, 01:59 PM   #30
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Looks like a cool/ambitious project. Do you have a chassis donor yet? Your likely going to have to run a fairly large forward angle on the Front Half Shafts as the space from your wheel openings to the front of the hood doesn't look very large. The Subaru AWD system has the diff behind the motor which makes for a fairly large engine overhang in front of the output shaft. The Subaru front Subframe has the steering rack, motor mounts and 1/2 of the inner A-arm pivots on it and uses fairly flat chassis side mounts that should be easy to deal with. The rear mounts for the A-arms use a horizontal bushing with a nice aluminum carrier that again should be easy to adapt. The rear suspension is all integral to a subframe except the Struts. I'm not as familiar with how it mounts to the Chassis as my project only uses the Front Drivetrain.
If you need any dimensions of things like Trans Ouput shaft CL to crank pulley, engine width, etc. I have a EJ22 attached to a 5 speed from a GC8 sitting on a build table as part of a MR Subaru 360 project that I can measure.
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Old 10-08-2020, 01:18 AM   #31
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Thanks, nocones_625 I actually do have a problem with the distance from the center line of the front wheels to the farthest forward point of the radiator. I am about 6" short. It looks like I will need to lengthen the front fenders. I dont see any other option. Am I missing something. I am using the 2000 Outback sedan for the donor car. My next step is to strip everything off the donor and roll it over to see about cutting out the entire floor. We have been swamped with work so it looks like I am a month off. But dont tell rtv900 or I may have to start sooner just to prove a point.
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Old 02-11-2021, 07:05 PM   #32
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I got side tracked building a power hammer but we started stripping down the donner car (2000 outback sedan) I am very surprised at all the electrical and other components involved with making a car.

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Old 02-11-2021, 07:26 PM   #33
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If you really want to go crazy, you can follow the example of Andy Forrest. He has(had?) a six cylinder swapped Impreza. He moved the drive train back for better weight distribution, and in order to keep AWD he used chains to drive the front wheels. I'd like to emulate that in my Impreza Coupe if I ever get around to it.

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