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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:20 pm
by cwrisley
At least it looks like the wheels, tires, and brakes made it (from the pics anyways). Sorry to hear about the fire.

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:10 pm
by airdreams1
man that sucks... looked like a cool ride.

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:24 pm
by Kraut_n_Rice
cwrisley wrote:At least it looks like the wheels, tires, and brakes made it (from the pics anyways). Sorry to hear about the fire.
We had to put a good wheel/tire on the passenger front and the drivers front is junk, even though it somehow is still holding air..

The front arms still have their rattle can paint job..the rest of the front tubing was still bare metal.

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:22 am
by Leatherneck
Again, rolling in late on this, real sorry to read about this. Looking forward to seeing it restored and finished, I know it is going to be one sweet Baja.

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:29 am
by tikotiko
i love the way you guys are handling the whole thing. you guys haven't wasted any time at all

Re: Npetric's A-arm Baja....ONE HOT RIDE! Decided to build a

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:59 am
by npetric
I know I havent been around in a while, but I thought I would check back in and share what I decided to do last week...

I decided it was time to put the baja back in the garage...
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Been cleaning all the melted stuff off of it and working to get all the surface rust off. It really wasnt as bad as I thought it was after the fire. I have had it sitting outside covered since we pulled it from the garage. Other than figuring out what to do with the cat that was living in it clean up has been super easy. Primed the cage and gave it all a couple coats of good ol' rattle can, replaced annd the heims, bushings, and shocks
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Spray in bedliner on the floor...
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And pulled the 3.0 and stuck in a 3.5.
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Re: Npetric's A-arm Baja....Decided to rebuild

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:50 am
by CentralWAbaja
Welcome Back!

That has a very promising look to it :D

Re: Npetric's A-arm Baja....Decided to rebuild

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 10:34 am
by Big Dave
Great to see things are coming back together for you. Is that a different house, or the same one rebuilt? Looks really nice!

Re: Npetric's A-arm Baja....Decided to rebuild

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:35 pm
by npetric
Big Dave wrote:Great to see things are coming back together for you. Is that a different house, or the same one rebuilt? Looks really nice!
Thanks! Its the same house, rebuilt. Took me around a year to rebuild and get moved back in, followed by a bunch of BS after getting back in. :roll: Got the house and yard where I wanted it and decided to rebuild the baja. :mrgreen:

Re: Npetric's A-arm Baja....Decided to rebuild

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:24 pm
by Steve Arndt
Epic. Keep at it.

Re: Npetric's A-arm Baja....Decided to rebuild

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:08 pm
by RAIL9222
Finally!!!

Good move on the 3.5 upgrade.

What happened to the rail frame you had?

Re: Npetric's A-arm Baja....Decided to rebuild

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:10 pm
by Leatherneck
Good to see you come back after being hammered so hard. Nice come back on the house .

RAIL9222 good to see you doing more then lurking :mrgreen:

Re: Npetric's A-arm Baja....Decided to rebuild

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:43 pm
by npetric
RAIL9222 wrote:Finally!!!

Good move on the 3.5 upgrade.

What happened to the rail frame you had?
Yeah it's been a long time!
I ended up not needing 4 seats afterall :?....really only NEED one now..... So I sold the frame and decided to rebuild this car. Trying to get this one finished up in the next month or so!

Re: Npetric's A-arm Baja....Decided to rebuild

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 9:03 pm
by npetric
Here is how the house turned out for those interested...
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I was able to rebuild the garage as a 30x30 again and made some changes inside. I had to do a lot of the work myself as I didn't have code upgrade in my policy. Luckily my gen contractor was cool with me doing what I could so I could make up the difference on what I was supposed to pay out.
I also had to re-landscape the front and back because most everything died while working on the house.....I was tired of mowing all that damn grass anyway :lol:

Re: Npetric's A-arm Baja....Decided to rebuild

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 9:10 pm
by Leatherneck
Nice work fo sure.

Flying the flags, props buddy, outstanding! 8)