My billet links finally mounted and connected to the massive Currie TT spec rear end. (4” diameter tubes,10” ring gear, floating axles) Billet Jamar hubs. As you can see not much left of the original FJC. The main cab minus most of the floor and about 3 feet of original frame rail .... the rest of t...

Shock mount area starting to go from solidworks to paper to metal first steps towards getting to the “rolling chassis” phase. Can’t wait to see this thing on tires, on the ground. Step by step we’ll get there. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49239913412_257348a744_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr...

Virtual #tuckedtuesday ? Does that count? So anyways..... everyone...... long time, no updates. It’s natural to think that maybe the project is dead. We are all so used to seeing some projects just progress from start to finish. Many people out there have no idea what’s it’s like to undertake such m...

Finally got the phone call!! @currieenterprises finished my rear end!! Gimme gimme gimme!! So excited!! To see this thing.... it’s like Christmas in may. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49239695177_96bb8f8441_b.jpg Come to daddy! @currieenterprises F9 fabricated 4130 4” housing, Strange Ultra 3r...

We waiting on parts to come back from the laser cutter to continue building out the rear.... progress has been slow but hopefully soon it’s starts to come together a bit quicker especially the rear end area. Honestly I also need time to make the money to pay for all this shiny stuff. I’m not rich by...

Last little detail.... while the arms are out anodizing we can start cutting the replaceable HDPE/delrin plastic “skid plates” that will cover the bottom surface of the links so they can slide over rocks, ruts etc....this should extend the overall life of the links and keep the arms that hang kinda ...

Don’t look so big lined up next to my F250, then again it did make that 35” tire look small ..... off to get a clear hard anodize ... dreaming about the day I see them linked up to that currie rear end and hanging under my truck....

“Say hello to my little friends” ... ahahahaha... nothing like a crazy idea come to life... all the hard work, sweat and stress looking thru the window with my hand on the stop button in fear of fucking up the biggest thing we have ever machined. To all the people that said why? ... to the people th...

We were busy this weekend.....#billetfordays !!! Now time to figure out how to hold this thing so we can machine the other side.. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49237149097_beab736d5f_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49237148942_796147b465_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/4923...

2 face .... hehehe one side pretty the other....needs work... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49236927191_f25e36970f_b.jpg The finishing touch ..... engraved the logo for my company @cinemilled after all, none of this would be happening without all the hardwork I put into making my company grow ...

Topside cut! Starting to take its final shape.... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49237147607_56fa11a3b9_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49236454428_ca76e0033a_b.jpg All the angles.... sides done !! Starting to take its final shape.... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49236927901_f8...

First shock pocket done! This has been quite the learning experience... made a few mistakes but that is part of the process. Important thing is that now I know how to do it better....

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Starting the pockets! The start of 4-6 hour operation.... starting on the first shock pocket...3D machining is cool but due to the amount of material we removing takes forever!!! Hope we don’t fuck anything up.... might need to re-think the design a bit to cut down on machine time. If I ever wanna m...

Since I don’t want to run the risk of messing up my expensive work in progress.... we figured we “test” the shock pocket program on a remnant chunk we had. Going slow and learning a few things.... never worked on anything this big so we learn something new everyday.... https://live.staticflickr.com/...

time to make some billet link mounts



Done

First of the deep pockets cut .... a lot of material to remove. Fun to finally get into it... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49236909601_ed967f3245_b.jpg [/url] Deep pockets .... so to speak... slinging chips!!! All day https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49236909451_4ba7148fea_b.jpg [/url] Ano...

One step at a time.... poking the holes for the shock mounts and uniballs ....

Chips are flyin’ drilling the main holes .... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49236909016_3643feb968_b.jpg [/url] All 4 billets faced and ends milled down and prep’d so we ready for the next step which is machining all the main thru holes (shock mount and uniballs). First step is to surface each...

That was not cheap.

But there is something so cool about those 4 billets turning into links.

Taking the model that @dertco designed and we just adding a few small touches adjusting some chamfers etc... Project #billet4link officially in progress.... it wasn’t until I saw @masonmotorsports new trophy truck and it’s beautiful billet links that I had even thought this was even viable! @andymcm...