Haha, the mine itself is HUGE. as in tens of miles huge, but over-top all you can see is a couple of giant salt/clay piles and some buildings and the headframes.
Nice to hear about the seatbelts, i still haven't made it to the junkyard, but i'm going to be looking this weekend when i try to get a tranny tunnel out of a foxbody in the mud.
Spent the entire day welding today as part of one of the mining classes, learned how to stick weld, and it's amazing how quickly it can be picked up. Having someone there to give pointers and advice right there in person really helped, it was put on through arctec, and i came home with a few boxes of tig filler for a good price on the university account
But out mig welding a seat bracket up tonight the effect of the instruction was definitely noticeable. Also got to play with a nice inverter tig there, bloody hell i don't know what i'm doing with the scratch-start airco, it's not even the same type of beast... I know what i want to buy in the future.
And best of all, got to try about 15 different products they had, everything from the standard rods through the low hydrogen, tried some stainless and cast iron welding, chrome and tungsten hardfacing, some low-penetration high elongation alloys for welding on cylinders, all the mining stuff. It was super cool.
As far as the amazon,
Seat brackets are 25% done for the car, I need to figure out what car to pull an idler from now. Planning on the tranny tunnel and passenger floor to be finished by the end of this weekend unless i fix the valve cover gasket on the 960.
Gotta shim the front of the transmission for the t5 and put the shifter/cup on, and i've gotta pick up an order of tubing/such to be able to build the rear links for the 8.8. Finished setting up a notching jig on the mill tonight as well.
I'm not sure on a manifold yet, i haven't been able to make up my mind whether to machine and braze injector bungs into a carb'd or b21 manifold (It will fit now with the pedals moved) or to make something custom out of mild or stainless.
Last major components are the steering mods (Waiting on a 4 jaw since the repeatability on the 3 jaw is terrible on the minilathe), tranny tunnel, rear suspension, passenger floor,the passenger seat rails and the driver's rear seat rails, and the tranny crossmember.
Then get some primer on it and paint the engine bay/interior. Everything past that is wiring and plumbing and fiddly stuff that can be done without major tools and space.