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Hellwig 68 Bronco Project
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I'm pretty sure they call them "argent" (which is just French for Silver).
While looking online for the name of the color I found this assembly pic showing how they go together:
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stupidboy
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There hasn't been much progress, we've been too busy with other stuff. We have been collecting parts and plan on getting really into it again in January and the plan still is to have it fully done by next SEMA.
For our spring rates, the one's currently on the vehicle are not at the final iteration. We need to see how heavy everything is once we get body, interior cage, etc in and go from there.
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Ok, in the past couple weeks we've found a little free time and started chipping away at this again. It seems like we keep finding more to do and adding to the list faster than we're marking stuff off, but that's the nature of the beast.
One of our big things we're trying to make a decision on is the driver side exhaust. We know where we want to route it and right now we have a factory Ford header (tri-y), a Ford Racing cast exhaust manifold and JBA header. None of these do exactly what we want, both the headers want to dump directly into the front driveshaft at full bump and the cast ones are too wide and hit the frame. We're either going to modify one of the three or start from scratch, still deciding what's easiest/best.
We've stripped the body even more, took out all the wiring, heater core, dash, weather stripiing etc. Unfortunately our windshield got cracked so need a new one of those too. We found tons of old ammo (both fired and not), some ear rings, bottle openers, nail clippers, an old rusty hide-a-key, etc. It's been quite a treasure hunt, and that was just stuff in the air vents... We're also finding more and more rust that needs to be fixed :-[
This trash can is full of just old wiring and weather stripping.
We're also going to have to move the rear crossmember some, there was miscommunication and our crossmember needs to be another 1" forward to fit our custom gas tank from TransferFlow. We are going to have to sandblast the frame off anyway for more welding for plumbing, cage etc anyways.
21 gal TransferFlow gas tank
Otherwise, Happy Valentine's Day! Don't get too distracted pleasing your wife/girlfriend and make sure to take your favorite lady for a ride (and by that I obviously mean your EB).
One of our big things we're trying to make a decision on is the driver side exhaust. We know where we want to route it and right now we have a factory Ford header (tri-y), a Ford Racing cast exhaust manifold and JBA header. None of these do exactly what we want, both the headers want to dump directly into the front driveshaft at full bump and the cast ones are too wide and hit the frame. We're either going to modify one of the three or start from scratch, still deciding what's easiest/best.
We've stripped the body even more, took out all the wiring, heater core, dash, weather stripiing etc. Unfortunately our windshield got cracked so need a new one of those too. We found tons of old ammo (both fired and not), some ear rings, bottle openers, nail clippers, an old rusty hide-a-key, etc. It's been quite a treasure hunt, and that was just stuff in the air vents... We're also finding more and more rust that needs to be fixed :-[
This trash can is full of just old wiring and weather stripping.
We're also going to have to move the rear crossmember some, there was miscommunication and our crossmember needs to be another 1" forward to fit our custom gas tank from TransferFlow. We are going to have to sandblast the frame off anyway for more welding for plumbing, cage etc anyways.
21 gal TransferFlow gas tank
Otherwise, Happy Valentine's Day! Don't get too distracted pleasing your wife/girlfriend and make sure to take your favorite lady for a ride (and by that I obviously mean your EB).
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Hey! Great to see and hear about this project again. Probably just now catching up after SEMA, if this year is like any other. ;D
Nice looking headers. Too bad they don't do just what you need. If only minor tweaks are needed, maybe just modding the existing ones will be the best. Hard to say until you start though, and waste the initial time until you decide it's the wrong direction. Again...
Hmm, have you talked to the folks up at Sanderson by any chance? They make some pretty nice fitting headers, and even though yours is going to be a limited custom, rather than something they would produce in volume, maybe they've got a good Coyote header in the works that they can work with you on?
Might be worth a call anyway.
Keep up the fun!
Paul
Nice looking headers. Too bad they don't do just what you need. If only minor tweaks are needed, maybe just modding the existing ones will be the best. Hard to say until you start though, and waste the initial time until you decide it's the wrong direction. Again...
Hmm, have you talked to the folks up at Sanderson by any chance? They make some pretty nice fitting headers, and even though yours is going to be a limited custom, rather than something they would produce in volume, maybe they've got a good Coyote header in the works that they can work with you on?
Might be worth a call anyway.
Keep up the fun!
Paul
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Paul, we've talked to a couple headers places to see if they have options already and/or pricing out something custom. I'm pretty sure Sanderson was on the list we called, they definitely make some nice stuff!
Today we spent a few minutes unwrapping and putting the dash from BC Broncos in. It went really smooth and now we just need to get some hole saws and make a final decision on which gauges and their locations. This is the first shiny new part out of many for the body...
Today we spent a few minutes unwrapping and putting the dash from BC Broncos in. It went really smooth and now we just need to get some hole saws and make a final decision on which gauges and their locations. This is the first shiny new part out of many for the body...
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We did more work yesterday. Redid the panhard, now at full, extreme bump with the coils pulled it barely kisses the oil pan, not even enough to scratch the paint and at full flex it just barely kisses the diff so we can't make it any better without using a lot smaller tube. At full bump bottom of the frame to ground is 21.5"
Here's worst case, flexed, full lock-ish. 37's still don't hit the suspension!
These pic really show how a sway bar works, flexing the front and rear with a forklift.
The rear's a lot flexier but with coils and more weight on everything it will be a little different
As soon as I'm done with this we're going to put the body on at full bump (no coils) and trim the fenders a little more.
Here's worst case, flexed, full lock-ish. 37's still don't hit the suspension!
These pic really show how a sway bar works, flexing the front and rear with a forklift.
The rear's a lot flexier but with coils and more weight on everything it will be a little different
As soon as I'm done with this we're going to put the body on at full bump (no coils) and trim the fenders a little more.
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We'll definitely be selling at least one pair of those headers. When I get it figured out I'll let you know.
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Full bump with body. The front clip still needs to slide back another inch or two and this is no flex with wheels straight forward before trimming/bulging the fenders which obviously will have to happen
Full bump with all the front junk. No room for anything else! It now has stops to keep it a little higher and keep the panhard off the oil pan.
The real reason we were putting on the body, test fit the Ididit steering column. It's fine inside...
...but too long in the engine compartment. Would have worked fine a with the factory engine but this engine's just too far back. Returning it and getting one a couple inches shorter and now that it's going to be custom, probably going to spline instead of the double D.
The good news is we measured and we have room to run hydroboost so that's on order from WildHorses and will help with our tight space issues
Also trying to figure out where to run the air intake. The factory Mustang one we have is HUGE and doesn't fit in the engine compartment but has a bunch of sensors we need so we can't just do a tube and a conical filter. We're checking to see if aftermarket ones are smaller or how we could modify this one.
Full bump with all the front junk. No room for anything else! It now has stops to keep it a little higher and keep the panhard off the oil pan.
The real reason we were putting on the body, test fit the Ididit steering column. It's fine inside...
...but too long in the engine compartment. Would have worked fine a with the factory engine but this engine's just too far back. Returning it and getting one a couple inches shorter and now that it's going to be custom, probably going to spline instead of the double D.
The good news is we measured and we have room to run hydroboost so that's on order from WildHorses and will help with our tight space issues
Also trying to figure out where to run the air intake. The factory Mustang one we have is HUGE and doesn't fit in the engine compartment but has a bunch of sensors we need so we can't just do a tube and a conical filter. We're checking to see if aftermarket ones are smaller or how we could modify this one.
Super nice project Ben - let us know if we can help any further!
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Thanks! I've been back to your site a few times, we'll be talking again soon. And we're still loving the bumpers (although they're off for now while we pull the body on and off).
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WOW! Really nice build you guys have going there. Can't wait to see it finished up. Definitely gonna keep an eye on this one. 
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Unfortunately no, we've done a little work here and there but nothing significant enough to report. This is what we work on in our free time and we have been working overtime and started a second shift to keep up with everything so haven't had much free time for the Bronco lately. I guess that's a good problem to have these days...
If you guys stopped ordering so many parts maybe we could spend money on the Bronco instead!
