Front Frame Horn Brace - Building a Pure Stock Race Car

[429CJSleeper]

This is great - When we get to our 3rd car - we want to build it from the ground up. Keep the info comming! It would only be better if you were building a Fox body Ford... :)

[sugerbear520]

nice

[davidjaramillo323]

Hi, I just tell you these words, you're a single woman! has shown me how smart and beautiful you are to the fact that you criticize others .. then let them go to hell to make their lives elsewhere but dejn you alone for my art as inspiration for a whole generation of runners that if they can make a race car at home, keep it up. very careful

[DirtReaper01]

Jeri , you are the real deal. I would be proud to run a car you built

[cashman515]

wow very nice , im impressed

[nsschmid]

I sawed off a finger using a big chop saw like that. It didn't have a working clamp and the tube jumped off the saw blade and threw my hand into the blade. Cut it clean off. Stay safe Jeri!

[ruwithlee1970]

I think I'm in love! An attractive lady with the skills to build a race car,I bet all the guy's try to get you to fix all there cars too.

[themarine375]

Man you work really fast! you need a job?

[zach54880]

Marry me. I cook, and bake, and I'm damn sexy! ;)

[FooDoo6]

Can you come help me with my '72 BMW Bavaria in the Seattle area?! :) It needs some serious TLC.

[BOOOGHAR]

just curious as to why you would add a brace inbetween the frame horns. The pure stock cars I worked on we had to use a stock style bumper on the front BUT used square tubing on the outside of the frame rail then slide round tubing into the square tubing welding it then mounted round tubing to the bumper and then bent round tubing that went from the bottom of teh frame horns and an aftermarket aluminum rad would sit on that round tubing so incase of a wreck the subframe would be ok

[jeriellsworth]

@BOOOGHAR It's very common to brace the front like this and have a tube bumper in front. You'll see how it ties together later on.

[Boredout454]

Will you marry me?

[fuzzwuzz90]

ur hot. thats allz i gotta say

[sirsilentbear]

that was bad ass you have awesome skills

[kinglonewolf104]

Cool video, I'm going to watch the next part now :)

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&eB

[MrDirtcarracer]

hey jeri i find ur videos very helpful im building a hobby/ pure stock to race here in antioch cali. im building the project with a 73 plymouth duster i wanted to run somethin different then gm, an feel strong about torsion bar front end vs. spring camaros, anyway i need some advice as to building the main hoop an tying subframes together, etc any advice would be helpful thanks.

[blckfire539]

so why do you do mig welding over tig welding and is that an auto darkening hood?

[jeriellsworth]

@blckfire539 TIG welding is too slow and not necessary for this chassis. If we were allowed to use very thin metal then it would make sense, but we're required to use very heavy walled tubing. It is an auto darken helmet with a big LCD shutter.

[blckfire539]

@jeriellsworth over the past year ive gotten into metal working and sculpture and all this is really cool to learn about so thank you! and means alot that you respond, not many people do that so again thank you

and are auto darkening hoods worth it? ive heard A LOT of mixed reviews on it

[jeriellsworth]

@blckfire539 I couldn't live without them. I got my first unit in 1995 and it worked well when the sensor was clean, sometimes it wouldn't darken when dirty. The new units with a solar cell are better and cost less than $100.

[mattcarey04]

@jeriellsworth you should be using flux core outdoors. the gas on standard mig tends to blow away with any wind and does not cool well.... btw i think the plumbers crack is ok on girls

[jeriellsworth]

@mattcarey04 I highly disagree. I always put up blocking if it's windy, which is wasn't during most of this build. Flux core makes crusty welds when out of position. My mentor always called it the welding wire for farmers.  :D

[azayles]

4:29 ".. The plumber's crack in not acceptable"

I beg to differ!

[PUG205GTX]

If they ever make a clone machine Please can I have a clone of you? :D

[toyotaboyhatman]

I love that you kept the audio in high speed mode, love hearing the torch and hammering in high speed ;-)

[cellularmitosis2]

jeri you are a badass and an inspiration!

[dav1dh0ff]

nice looking welds

[gushhnet]

@forsetifox nature, or what's left of it.

[frac]

Hot girl(s) plumbers crack is not acceptable?

Perhaps if it was blocking my view of a topless pillow-fight... otherwise, I really don't have an issue with it.

[acousvnt]

It's funny how it's instinctive to squint when seeing the welding sparks, even though on the screen they're no brighter than all the white on the page.

[lexichronicle2]

the last plumber in my house was actually on crack. he ran off in the middle of doing the work and then accused me of stealing his tools, when they were sat in the porch waiting for him to pick them up

[lexichronicle2]

those brushes, I find, don't work very well. get some monster 3hp angle grinder used off eBay, fit it with a big twisted wire cup and it'll rip every spec of shite off the surface until it's sparkling again, in seconds. hit it up with the welder before it has a chance to tarnish. sparkly welds. a face shield is an idea, as bits of wire will rocket out of the cup towards your eyes. fact. also works great for removing silicon sealant

[jeriellsworth]

@lexichronicle2 I had a piece of wire from one of those go into the back of my hand and it turned a dark color, but I didn't know why this happened. I went to a doctor a year later and had the little spot removed and he said "Oh my. This is a piece of metal in here."

[lexichronicle2]

I had a free ride in an MRI scanner at university as part of a research project (scrolling through your own brain afterwards is amazing!). one of the questions they ask is, have you ever had any metal splinters in your skin or eyes. "Nope....." I became a little less sure of that answer when I found myself inside the scanner, in the room alone, strapped to the table, waiting for it to turn on

[lexichronicle2]

miller need to get some deal on the go so the set will eject cans of ice cold beer after the torch has been off for more than 30s. That'd be aWesome. GO ESAB!

[ytmachx]

Plumber's crack is ok on a girl. Especially on you Jeri.

[fritzkat]

@ytmachx exactly

[Winsucker]

@forsetifox bird?

[thewii552]

did someone send you a new camera?

[MoonBurgle]

@forsetifox prolly a squirrel

[MoonBurgle]

This is the coolest video I have ever watched.

[joshcryer]

I second freq32's comment, when this project is done, I'd love to see it raced!

[orbiter8]

Looks like a nice weld Jerri.. good job.

[pumkinvine]

We did this to our street rods back in the day. That and replace the rubber bushings between the unibody and the subframe with aluminum blocks. (I'm guessing you were cutting holes in the floor board to improve this connection?)

[psychobman]

Is there anything that Jeri can't do? Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[AntiProtonBoy]

I'm not too clued-up with welding, but what kind of welder is that? It seems to be an awesome tool.

[freq32]

wanna see trish race this thing.

[claycowgill]

Looks like you robbed a Harbor Freight there, Jeri. ;-) (1080p is neat-- alas on my old computer it's more like watching a high-res slide show with a voiceover.)

[catman72]

my dear - in your case it should be

BONUS! - Plumbers Crack !!!

:-))

[will2993]

dear god, jeri loves all the things i love :O

[Lastnerdonearth]

4:22 But we love your plumber's crack. Not for any sick sexual reason, like a 5 year old might think. But because It's just you, honestly doing your own thing, and we all really appreciate that.

[jwriney]

I've never worked on cars, so this is really interesting. I enjoy learning about things completely outside my knowledgebase. Plus it's a fun change of pace from the electronics stuff. Keep the vids coming!

[onlywhenprovoked]

that was great, looking forward to seeing more of this project.

[var0sha]

Jeri. Welding. In 1080p. That's just pure Win right there. n_n

[jeriellsworth]

@forsetifox Not sure.