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Another build thread.. Shamu rebuild

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Well I finally updated the phone to ios7 and went through all my pics and realized I have a ton. So I'm starting a build thread..

It all started August of last year. Went to the Cliffs with a couple buddies. Took some sweet poser shots!

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Then I got bored and talked everyone else into running the trail Carnage. Well I was leading and this happened.

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We pulled it back over, topped her off, and drove 40 miles home. Not much damage but it crunched the windshield pretty good. This is flop #2, #1 happened July 4th 2010 in my buddies back yard, put a sweet crunch in the roof.

A day or two after flop 2.0, I was cruisin Pirate and found a pair of these bad boys for $300 shipped. 14" 2.5 ProFender air shocks. Yeah it's a lot of shaft...

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Needless to say I bought them.. I called up Kelso the next day and had him order me 160' of 1.75 .120 HREW. I yanked the front end apart, sold the old JESUS CHRIST ROCKZ bumper on GL4x4 and cleaned up the shop

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First things first, I wanted to stretch the front another 2" and ditch the BALLSACK FAB joints (JUNK!). So I cut the arms, sleeved the 2" .250 wall with some 1.5" .250 wall (yeahhh .500" thick!), welded some new bung holes on on 2" farther down, and screwed in some bad ass 1.25" RuffStuff heims.

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To be continued.. real soon actually
 
Still without a plan, I got bored between classes and decided to bend up a halo.

This happened about 6 hours later trying to trouble shoot the JUNK!!! COPPERHEAD FAP hydro conversion on my bender.

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And about 10 minutes after this my neighbor (we call her bubble butt, don't know her real name) yelled at me for garbage that wasn't mine in her yard. But that's all irrelevant....

Over the next week I bent up some a pillars and finished the halo

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Got a 2 windshields put in it (Also have a long story about that, but I won't get into that..) then burned the a pillars to the rockers. Here's a little out of order pic. Earlier in the summer I cut the rockers and doors. Gained 2.25" and 2x6 3/16 rockers

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WOW MUCH SHINE

Around this time I was playing that KOH cell phone gamey thing and thought "HOW COOL WOULD IT BE TO HAVE WINDSHIELD BARS" So I made some. Because cherocar.

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Then I got bored around 10PM one night so I decided to make a bumper. Bubble butt gave a dirty look that night, I think she's just jelly.. Did this in about a half hour. At this point I still don't have a plan, just making it up as I go..

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Still more to come
 
I then decided to put some paint on. Ended up painting the roof black too because I suck at taping.

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SMASH HOLE!!!

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Then I decided I was going to need a sweet stinger brah after a long night of stupidness with Kelso.

Bent this bad boy to compensate.

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Around this time I decided to cut the front end up. Again Kman is over "helping" (I think this is the week we don't speak of...) He did get me a SWEET PROFILE PIC!

1.75 .120 through the fenders and header panel

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Finished it up the next morning

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Then I did it to the other side

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And hung a fender and cut the crap out of it!

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Then I went to the mall

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And decided I needed working lights.

55w HID's, Yamaha R1 turn signals I converted to 3 wire.

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Around this time I figured I'd better finish the interior of the cage.

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RACECAR SEATS

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Race cars do burnouts right?

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Then my roommate had to out do me

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Which in turn did this

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Which warranted this reaction from him hours later when we later took it apart and found the damage. Took about 3 hours to get it all out.
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Ok you win
 
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Now I had to fit those shocks in there.. Cut a bunch of inner fender out, bent some hoops, and figured out they were coming through the hood. SWEEEEEEET

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And that's where I am now...
 
I love the way your doing that cage. Badass.
 
'MERICA......that is all.
 
I took a pic of just how close the I kept the tube to the roof. I put a very slight bend in the tube to follow the contour.

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Also took a few pics of how I tied the hoops in with out running a bar across the engine

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Love the build Brennen, definitely want to see it in person at WF! The more I see your work the more I wish I would have had you put the floor pans in the RHD ;)
 
Thanks Colin!

Installed one of my Smash Hole Motorsports Squatch series 12" bars. 5000 lumens combo pattern. Fits perfect between the stinger.

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