Prototype from Germany (Avalanche)

Matze1989 · Oct 22, 2014

Hi,

since some time i am following some projects in this forum. I am from Germany and i thought i would also show some pictures of our Offroad Project (no name found yet). Me and my brother (and some friends) are building a car for the class "Prototype" of the german Offroad Championship.

Specs:
2.8l VW VR6
Custom Built Frame
Unimog 411 Axles
Front and rear hydraulic steering PSC
Sway Away 2 inch AirShocks with 14 inch travel
Landrover HD Driveshafts

More to come.

Greetings from Mannheim, Germany
Matthias

Elliott · Oct 22, 2014

The build is pretty neat, the brick floored shop is bad ass.Its good to see something different on here.

Rokcrler · Oct 22, 2014

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Badass!

John Galbreath Jr. · Oct 22, 2014

Welcome to Hardline. Great see a build from over there. Never seen that axle before.

wont work · Oct 22, 2014

What was those axles in originally?

Matze1989 · Oct 22, 2014

The Axles where used in the Unimog 411.
It is looking like this:

jp fan · Oct 22, 2014

very cool build and Awesome looking shop keep the updates and pics coming :dblthumb:

CheapJ7 · Oct 22, 2014

Awesome build guys! Keep us updated :driving:

Coma1 · Oct 22, 2014

Nice looking build. It's cool seeing fab work from outside the US.

Is that rose joint serviceable? rebuild-able?

Slowstroke01 · Oct 22, 2014

Subscribed. Very nice ready to see more :popcorn:

Technician · Oct 23, 2014

How in the hell are y'all able to make that bender work without kinking the tube?

fordcontraption01 · Oct 23, 2014

Technician said:
How in the hell are y'all able to make that bender work without kinking the tube?

x2 :****:

5BrothersFabrication · Oct 23, 2014

Hallo ! Gut, dass Sie kommen konnten ! Ich lebte in Heidelberg für 3 Jahre, ging zu oft in Mannheim. Liebe die Build , weiter so !

TacomaJD · Oct 23, 2014

This is pretty badass! Welcome to Hardline! :drinkers:

onepieceatatime · Oct 24, 2014

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Post up some pictures of those hot German chick's yall got over there posing on this thing when it's all done.

Matze1989 · Oct 24, 2014

Coma1 said:
Nice looking build. It's cool seeing fab work from outside the US.

Is that rose joint serviceable? rebuild-able?

Maintainable only for lubrication via the lubrication nipple

Technician said:
How in the hell are y'all able to make that bender work without kinking the tube?

We also have a smaller tube bender which was not working good. This one is just great. For example we used it to make the B-Pillar out of one piece of tube.

onepieceatatime said:
Post up some pictures of those hot German chick's yall got over there posing on this thing when it's all done.

We will see :drinkers:

Thank you all for your replies. I will try to upload some more pictures soon.

Rockwells607 · Oct 24, 2014

I borrowed one of those benders befor I owned a bender, the dies sucked and it bent like **** , someone reworked the 1.5 diameter tube die by a sleaving the die with a piece of 1.75 dom tube bent and cut in half, that bent great and didn't kink it at all, the rest of the dies kinked and looked like ****

Bebop · Oct 25, 2014

We mostly use tube kinkers here in europe.

The secret is to have a good set of dies. I assure you with accurate dies the tube doesn't kink at all.

Matthias, nice build !!