walter just 2 questions. Do u have a schedule for people to come and look at it? And how far is it from your bed? or does it get its own room? Andrei ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxxxxx> To: "DMCForum" <DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 8:53 PM Subject: [DMCForum] Stainless frame arrived today (long) > Being the loud-mouthed sort of guy, I'll tell you all about it. We unloaded > it from the delivery truck and moved it to a pickup truck. The frame is > narrow enough that it fit in the back just fine. All the extra bits were > packed beneath a piece of plywood where the fuel tank belongs. I could tell > by looking at the front of the frame while it was still on the delivery > truck that the driver's side of the crumple tube was a speck higher than the > other side. Once we got it out I could tell that someone either dropped it > on that part or maybe had most of the weight of the frame balanced on the > nose while hoisting it into the truck. The damage is limited only to the > crumple zone which on this frame simply unbolts. So straightening it will > be easy. > > What the frame looks like: It looks just like the one we saw at the Memphis > show only without suspension pieces on it. If you weren't at Memphis, check > out the photos posted at: > http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/lst and then click the folder > "Memphis 2002" and then "Pearce". > > The engineering looks excellent, but the welds holding it all together could > look better. I'm not going to badmouth the work. The opinions I heard at > Memphis were varied from, "It isn't safe" to "It doesn't need to be pretty, > and it won't be visible anyway." I'm going to take it to a stainless steel > fabrication shop that I've done business with before and have them go over > it. There are areas I want to polish such as what is visible in the engine > compartment and maybe even all of it if it isn't too much of a hassle. > > I was disappointed to see that they used American threads on everything. I > would rather see them use metric like was done at the factory. > > The front lower control arms look excellent! Whoever welded those is > qualified to make jewelry. For the price, they are going to give the other > aftermarket ones a run for their money. > > This frame also has the stainless steel trailing arms that do away with > trailing arm bolts. To make toe-in adjustments to the rear wheels, you move > spacers from one side of the joint to the other. This is incredibly > superior to the OEM way of doing it. My only concern is that the plastic? > spacers (washers) they used are rather thick. I haven't measured anything > yet, but it looks like one of these spacers is about twice as thick or more > as an OEM alignment shim. Unless the frame is made dead on the money, I > would expect to need to find some thinner alignment washers for fine > adjustment. I feel this way because when I had my car at Sears for a 4 > wheel alignment, they said that the OEM spacers were too thick and > instructed me on how to make thinner ones at home which I later installed. > If my new frame is like the others that PDC makes, it won't need any > adjustment (according to them). > > I can't find the receipts off hand, but so far I have around $10K spent on > the basic frame, all the options and having it delivered. I will probably > spend a few grand more installing it. I want to repaint all the parts that > are being reused, replace the refrigerant lines with R-134a barrier hoses, > maybe replace the hard brake & fuel lines with SS, etc. But for now I have > too many other projects in the works that I need to finish first. Then I > need to find a lift that can take the body off the old frame. I'm > considering making a set of trusses out of wood supported by 4 bottle jacks. > I'll know if I can make that work once I've done the math. Maybe I'll just > get one of those in-home lifts that you can park a second car under. > > Walt > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sell a Home for Top $ http://us.click.yahoo.com/RrPZMC/jTmEAA/jd3IAA/HliolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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