I was bored today. Boring, rainy, car-less Sunday...I had an old panhard bar laying around from another f-body so I decided to do a little welding. I went to home depot and got a piece of 1/8th inch steel and laid it atop the bar:



And then I welded, and welded.



After I welded it all together, I ground it down some.



And then I painted it and it looked like this.









And now I am going to put a downpayment on my new car that I hope to have by the end of the week

 

Nice!!!!!!

 

Cool Man

 

(woman)

 

good job!!! thats kick ***! did you do that at home or at school?

 

I did it at home in my garage, where all of my modding takes place

 

Hey I we you are a girl, that can weld?

 

You need more pics on your site. I do like the one of the SRT-4 though. Have to disagree about there being too many skanks at the track...never enough...

 

i we you are a girl? lol

yes i am a girl that can weld

 

Easy for you to say.....

 

Much respect to a girl who welds.
We did that mod to my PH bar and it worked out nice.

 

nice work, I also use the Home Depot for some of my " fabrication supplies"

I was bored one day and wandered over to the plumbing section and picked up a 4ft length of sch. 40 1" steel pipe which is actually 1.31" OD and a .133 " wall thickness.
About 8$ and a couple of hours worth of labor and welding and a solid bushed panhard was born for my car.
As strong as anything you could possibly buy. Would not want to make a K-member out of that stuff but it makes for a bullet proof panhard bar.
Steve

 

SJH its funny you mentioned that because I was thinking of putting a steel tube in it instead, but I didn't want to lug the panhard bar into the depot with me to see what kind of pipe would fit in it nicely...so I just went with a strip.

 

keliente,
Boxing the stock unit will certainly stop any flexing. You did a nice job on yours. I wanted solid bushings also for no deflection. So I did not use the stock panhard bar, I made mine from scratch. I had some old factory ls1 piston pins I used for the end bushings since they accept a 14mm bolt with very close tolerance. I could have made it real simple and just used rod ends and tube end adapters like everybody else does. But I ended up doing a solid bushing with the bolt acting as a bearing surface since it is mucho cheaper and also stronger than a rod end, but the bolts will need to be greased now and then and replaced when it gets noisy, since they act as a bearing surface. My car is a limited street combo so I'll probably never have to replace them though.
And yes Welding and fabricating is fun! Wish more late model hobbyists would give it a shot!
Steve

 

I checked out your pix SJH, great looking car and great fabrication!!