Rogue Trooper

[pickmeup]

Very impressive mate.
Will be great when its done.

[Marishka]

wow,
thats an awsome job Rogue
u sure your not building a space shuttle,
its as good as 1,
im not kiddin when i say thats the best beddy dash etc ive ever seen.
u NZ fellows dont muck around.
regards mty

[Marishka]

hey pickmeup did u find them?

[pickmeup]

Find em?

[Rogue Trooper]

looking good, you can come do mine when your done

Considering what you've done to your van Busy I think that's the highest praise yet. Thanks and thanks for the offer but I must decline even if it's just to preserve my sanity, and thanks for all your comments guys.

wow takin shape:) do you have a steel bender rouge?

cheers
ben

Oh I so wish Ben. Nope. Some of the bends like the dash cowling were done by building a frame and then tacking and rolling, tacking and rolling the panel into place. The curvy corners of the cowling were done by cutting smaller pieces of steel, bending them a bit with my pliers and then tacking them into place. I think there were about 9 individual little pieces tacked into those curves. The bends around the shifter and handbrake covers were done by cutting out a 90 degree curve from a length of steel pipe and using that to join the panels and bending box section just sucks.

[Bedfordcrazy]

AWESOME rogue, what a way to wake up on a saturday morning, it is -3 here now  so I dreaded getting up, but seeing your van pics, has made my day.  Just one tip though, although all your pics were clear and in focus, you should have an auto setting on the camera, then you can't go wrong. Your pics may be few and far between, but when you post you really do a good job of inspiring. Time to knuckle down so i can keep up with you. 

george

[Bas NZ]

Rouge, I remember the days I used to bend box section steel, we used to fill it with sand and then heat it up with the gas set, it bends very well and with ease. But you have done a ellec job, be proud, keep going and impress us!
George, as for the sound of the exhaust on your V6, I'm know expert but was stating with the new systems out there it would be possabile, it would have to be a twin exhaust, maybe a couple of cobbys an turbo mufflers fitted anyone that has a lot of know how on exhaust systems would be able to help out. I have come across a couple of VN's the I had to ask what they were running as they sounded unreal. Cheers

[Rogue Trooper]

That's a bit technical Bas. I made a series of cuts along one side of the box section about 10mm apart each. Then I bent the box section to the shape I wanted with the cuts to the outside of the curve. This worked well because I was able to put the bent section in place and confirm it was the shape I wanted and make any adjustments needed. Then I just filled in the cut sections with the mig and smoothed them off with the grinder and then the sander.

[Bas NZ]

I was young and always did things the hard - long way, but it worked, these days I take the same road as you have............

[Marishka]

Find em?

your tools in craigs shed.lol