new project to build with my son.

[69charged]

here is the latest project me and my sons are working on. it is pretty much done now but we have been working on it since september. we have about 3ft of powder so we did it just in time.
clarence

 

[E.rodz]

here is the latest project me and my sons are working on. it is pretty much done now but we have been working on it since september. we have about 3ft of powder so we did it just in time.
clarence

now thats what I am talking about.love the running boards. what are you using for a motor?looks like a 120 chassis.what are you using for a track? are those air float shocks? we need more details

 

[bazzateer]

My son is 11, and he is actively searching for his first car. Looking forward to starting a father/son project.

My boy is 6, we already have his car stored in a lock-up until my garage is built. It need s a total restoration so he can cut his teeth on the stuff that won't show when it's finished. Realistically we won't start on it until he's a year or two older.

 

[69charged]

i have a 6.5hp 200 honda in it. i hand built the front and rear suspension and am using fox float mountain bike shocks. it also has mountain bike disc brakes. the track is actually 2 tracks that i had vulcanized together. it cost as much as a normal track but hey, anything for the boy eh??
i also built the tunnel from scratch. it is from .080" aluminum and i extended the tunnel as you can see with a tip up at the back so it would look like a big sled.
i advanced the timing 6 degrees, shaved the head .060" to bump up compression, and removed the governor. it goes about 28-30 mph and stock is 8. so he is happy.
clarence

 

[E.rodz]

just trying to make the customer happy.lol. my son has some wild imagination he wants chains breaking apart and wants to light it up with led. lights here are a couple of drawings that I did now i have to figure out how to paint this design on the bike. this is going to take a while to paint. just kicking some ideas.

 

[thump186]

My son is 12 and just started taking an interest in things other the video games. He helps me all the time with the car. Even if he is just helping wash or wax it's no matter what it is as long as we are spending the time together. We're waiting for the right project to come along. We would have to get some new stuff to start a heavy project....hmmmm Wonder if i can find a kit?

 

[babzog]

That is freakin' amazing for a nine year old to come up with! Awesome talent! Tell him he's got some fans over here!

I was just standing there with my jaw hanging down thinking that he would have a typical 9 year ould responce like paint it red.

 

[41 Dave]

E.rodz, Looks like you and your son are having some great fun together. Will keep an eye on your progress.

41 Dave

 

[Cryptic1911]

tool cool! the kid knows what he wants.. that will definately help when he does his own projects! gotta have some direction

 

[E.rodz]

E.rodz, Looks like you and your son are having some great fun together. Will keep an eye on your progress.

41 Dave

tool cool! the kid knows what he wants.. that will definately help when he does his own projects! gotta have some direction

That is freakin' amazing for a nine year old to come up with! Awesome talent! Tell him he's got some fans over here!

here is a little more progress that we hopfully finish the welding on the frame and the grinding. the bad thing about teaching someone this yong is I have to grind all his welds.the way I was tought is you grind all your own welds this teaches you how much faster but he is getting much better.

 

[E.rodz]

hopefully we will be ready for paint soon have a couple of really cool suprises for you guys things are starting to take shape now.let here your coments on the build so far.

this is one of my favorites of the project so far.

 

[Chreese]

Impressive project! I bet you enjoy the work with your son. Thanks for sharing.

Have a nice day,

Chreese

 

[keflaman]

My three sons ages range from 21 to 25 and when they were the same age as your son there was nothing I could do to get them interested in "garage stuff". It's interesting to note that today two of the three are dedicated gear heads and they often comment regarding how much fun they had working with me in the garage back then.

I'm living vicariously through you and betting the bottom picture in post #51 will be one of your favorites for a long time to come.

 

[E.rodz]

Impressive project! I bet you enjoy the work with your son. Thanks for sharing.

Have a nice day,

Chreese

My three sons ages range from 21 to 25 and when they were the same age as your son there was nothing I could do to get them interested in "garage stuff". It's interesting to note that today two of the three are dedicated gear heads and they often comment regarding how much fun they had working with me in the garage back then.

I'm living vicariously through you and betting the bottom picture in post #51 will be one of your favorites for a long time to come.

thanks for all your support hope to finish the welding and the metal work this week and hopfully paint in a couple of weeks.I will try to keep the updates coming.

 

[E.rodz]

wow where does the time go thought we would be done with this by now but still moving forward almost finished with the rear frame modifications.and did a little test pannel to use as a sign for displaying when we are done.hoping to be ready for paint and the chrome shop shortly.

the evolution of the rear frame forks.

this was my sons simple paint scheeme idea.lol. hope he doesn't want something more complicated.

 

[E.rodz]

anyone ever spoked up a wheel?

got alot done the other night austin finished welding up the rear fork and the rear fender. the only thing that ***** about teaching someone that is ten to weld is I am not about to hand him the grinder so I get to grind all his welds.he is getting alot better though.just curious if anyone has ever spoked up a wheel frome scratch? I figured that because I have never done it we might as well go for broke and ad 18 more spokes and change up the lace up pattern am I just a glutten for punishment or can someone tell me that its a easy job.

 

[E.rodz]

a little more progress it has been a little slow. had to burry one of my very good friends last week sadest week ever joe bergeron good friend you will be missed dearly.trying to get back into the grove again.

check out some of the changes with this side by side comparison.

hope to have all the welding done after this weekend wish us luck.

 

[E.rodz]

now we are starting to get something done.last weekend was the first weekend we had to get somthing done in along time, now we are making progress. finished fabbing and welding last night ready to drop some parts off at the powder coater and hopefully get it back by this weekend so we can get this thing painted. wish us luck.

 

[Big Boi]

Man thats BA!

He's going to look back and remember every second of the build. I know I still look back at the projects I did with my dad. Nothing as cool as that, but it sure helped me get a jump start on life...

Cant wait to see it finished

 

[E.rodz]

Man thats BA!

He's going to look back and remember every second of the build. I know I still look back at the projects I did with my dad. Nothing as cool as that, but it sure helped me get a jump start on life...

Cant wait to see it finished

thanks for the words I can agree with you that that there is nothing better. his imagination is a machine in motion and hopfully we can get it in paint this weekend.wish us luck and we will keep the posts coming.

 

[Indy_500]

loving the bike so far! i noticed the polaris sticker on your box, Just curious, what kind of sleds do you got? or maybe you don't have sleds...? just curious

 

[E.rodz]

loving the bike so far! i noticed the polaris sticker on your box, Just curious, what kind of sleds do you got? or maybe you don't have sleds...? just curious

still have my favorite sled ever my highly modifiyed 2001 pro x 600 hope to get it back together for next season.nothing like jumping off a cornice or the sound of a hopped up 2 stroke at 9500 rpms.

 

[Big Boi]

thanks for the words I can agree with you that that there is nothing better. his imagination is a machine in motion and hopfully we can get it in paint this weekend.wish us luck and we will keep the posts coming.

Are you guys doing the pain as well? If so, what paint are you using, and how much is needed?

Once I get my garage painted, I want to paint some metal cabinets that I have. Just looking for some info on the techniques and a good CHEAP gun...

 

[gabeancounter]

Wow....really wow!
Amazing skills you are handing down. The chain design he came up with is really cool. I like the wire wheels and look forward to seeing the paint. Great times.

 

[E.rodz]

Are you guys doing the pain as well? If so, what paint are you using, and how much is needed?

Once I get my garage painted, I want to paint some metal cabinets that I have. Just looking for some info on the techniques and a good CHEAP gun...

yes me and austin my boy will be doing the paint as well with any luck it will be this weekend. look into a hvlp tripple gun set from northern tool the whole set is like 100 bucks and will work just fine for the most part.you can use rustolem from your local home building center. you can add a enamel hardner in it to make it dry faster and dry with more gloss to it it works awsome.

 

[E.rodz]

Wow....really wow!
Amazing skills you are handing down. The chain design he came up with is really cool. I like the wire wheels and look forward to seeing the paint. Great times.

the way I look at it your kids don't stay young forever and i don't want to be one of those dads that gets older then wishes he spent more time with his kids.watching his ability to absorb all the infromation that I can throw at him is pretty cool.he does give me quite a challenge to keep up with his imagination.I will keep you posted on progress.

 

[tdkkart]

Get the boy concentrating on making good looking as well as functional welds, better yet, get him a TIG welder so he can make really nice welds.

Besides the fact that it's nearly forbidden to grid welds as a professional(which I am not), I for one am far more impressed by nice looking welds than ground welds. Anyone can make a weld look nice with a grinder.

Welding is one of those skills you can always use, and can almost always find a job in.

 

[Big Boi]

yes me and austin my boy will be doing the paint as well with any luck it will be this weekend. look into a hvlp tripple gun set from northern tool the whole set is like 100 bucks and will work just fine for the most part.you can use rustolem from your local home building center. you can add a enamel hardner in it to make it dry faster and dry with more gloss to it it works awsome.

Thanks for the info!

 

[E.rodz]

Get the boy concentrating on making good looking as well as functional welds, better yet, get him a TIG welder so he can make really nice welds.

Besides the fact that it's nearly forbidden to grid welds as a professional(which I am not), I for one am far more impressed by nice looking welds than ground welds. Anyone can make a weld look nice with a grinder.

Welding is one of those skills you can always use, and can almost always find a job in.

well you are going to like the next thing then . I went over the welds with the tig welder and the paint is kandy and all the welds will show.teaching somone to tig weld takes lots of hrs of practice.he will eventuly learn this skill also, but for now its scuffing the powder coat to put the art on.and he will also do some airbrushing later today.

 

[tdkkart]

well you are going to like the next thing then . I went over the welds with the tig welder and the paint is kandy and all the welds will show.teaching somone to tig weld takes lots of hrs of practice.he will eventuly learn this skill also, but for now its scuffing the powder coat to put the art on.and he will also do some airbrushing later today.

When I built my trike I doidn't grind any of the welds except where it was needed to get parts to fit as they should. I bought my TIG speifically for this project, and this project was the first real TG welding I had done.

When the frame was sitting at the powder coaters several shops wanted to leave their number for me to call if I wanted a welding job.

At the couple shows I've had it at i get alot of comments about the welds, "If I could weld like that I wouldn't grind them either".

The welds really aren't all THAT great, but alot better than I see on alot of production stuff.

http://www.tdkmotorsports.com/trikebuild/trikebuild.html

 

[E.rodz]

picking up steam now. really got alot done this weekend. picked up the frame from the powder coater and brought it home and scuffed it down to paint the graffics on it.

a full day of masking taping and spraying. got some color on the bike!

after a little airbrushing and clear and this is what his dream looks like now if we can get the rest of the parts back from the chrome shop we can hopfully get this thing into final assembly!

 

[Big Boi]

The bike is looking awesome!

 

[Big Boi]

Any updates?

 

[1984GMC]

Nothing hippyish would ever find its way on anything my kids would have, May as well be the commie flag. Ohh and we used 10 speed forks for the front chopper look on our bikes as kids,,lol

 

[E.rodz]

going like gangbusters to get this finished this weekend. almost done just more sanding and polishing,and all the wiring for the lights. starting to look like a bike now.

 

[E.rodz]

build something with your kids!

just a little more updating on the bike build.almost done now just more details to finish.we should be done with the bike this week!

just got the rest of are parts back from the chrome shop.

starting to spoke up the rear wheel with the added spokes that we drilled out for the wheel.

that wasn't so bad it only took 4.5 hrs to spoke up the rear wheel. think I could do it alot faster now but we are done with that part now and I must say it looks way better.hope you guys like it.

 

[Amitygravel]

Amazing stuff !!! While growing up my Dad was so busy busting his *** trying to earn a living doing jobs that could dirrectly linked to ultimately causing his death. I find myself being caught up in that same rut. My daughter turns 6 soon (going on 17!). Its time to re evaluate my priorities I think!!

 

[E.rodz]

Amazing stuff !!! While growing up my Dad was so busy busting his *** trying to earn a living doing jobs that could dirrectly linked to ultimately causing his death. I find myself being caught up in that same rut. My daughter turns 6 soon (going on 17!). Its time to re evaluate my priorities I think!!

I think we can all relate to this myself included was busting my **** working all the overtime I could so I could build the coolest cars ever.I sat down thinking and said if I won the lottery what would I do with it? I would build cool stuff with my kids so I decided that after I was in the middle of finishing my garage,working a fulltime job,working on everyone elses projects. when my son asked me if we could build a cool custom chopper out of his bros. bike.I was in the middle of getting my car ready for the power tour.and dropping everything to do this is something I will never regret.I took us to long to finish this to bring the car on the power tour but oh well.

 

[E.rodz]

Any updates?

here are a couple more shots. getting closer now.
almost done.

full assembly now.

 

[Holedgr]

Hey Erodz.....nice work....an inspiration to be sure. Can you tell me alittle about that cool looking exhaust fan in the one picture next to your boy??

Thanks,

T