03 &10’crown vic builds w/ pics

[nick18sf]

My brother and I built an 03 and 08 last year and they were great! So why not build another pair of them. This time it’s another 03’ and 10’ the 03 is mine and I’ll be posting pics of it now. I’ll post my brothers 10’ soon.
I meant to make this thread months ago, but I had a hell of a time with photo bucket, tiny pic and any other one. I resorted back to photo bucket.
The two 03’s from last summer held up great, but why not try and make improvements if you can? So we did. I’ll point them out as I post the pics.
I hope you guys enjoy the thread and don’t find it to repetitive as last summers thread.

I welded on 1/8” plate on the rear frame rail in order to put 4x4 tubing on.



I started by cutting off 2” of frame from the nose. I didn’t do that last year.
I started by tacking plates on the frame then tacking the bumper on and then welding it all up




Got the rearend mounted up with half ztr brackets and stuff we made. Also trying 4 notches in the back instead of 2



Time for the body to go on. It was previously wrecked



The next thing was putting in interior bars. I had to use ropes and rachet straps to manipulate bars around







Started on welding the doors and trunk along with creasing out the trunk











The clip was damaged so I sent a lot of time trying to fix it with a winch, straps and cherry pick



I made 2.25” spacers from washers and black iron for the firewall to get the nose up higher. I raised up the core support 2” so I needed to do it. I also wanted it for tire clearence.

[space saver]

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[Deleted]

Hell yeah,u tilting these any?or leaving stock

[nick18sf]

Thanks. No, we’re not allowed to tilt anything here. It’d be interesting to see how they would hold up if we were allowed to tilt these.

nick

[Deleted]

I like your cradle setup,very nice

[nick18sf]

Thank you. We haven’t really had any issues w this type of set up. My brother & I used to build and sell the same setup in this vic.

[derrbyman96]

UPDATES??

[smashford]

The date got moved, I think the cars done as a roller though

[nick18sf]

That vic is basically done. It just needs a rearend, column, Motor and trans and it’s ready to go. The main derby it was built for got moved to October. We will be running a pair of box Vic’s first then transferring stuff to the 03’s
I’ll post pics of the 10’ as it moves along

Nick

[space saver]

lets see the box vics as well!?

[nick18sf]

This is my brothers 2010. There is still a lot to do, but it’s coming along
Nick
This is how much was cut off the front of it. I think 2.5”

This lightly preran 74 bumper is going on it


It’s getting a preran 74-6 Chevy rear bumper.

The 10 bolt is back under it with the watts link conversion brackets.

[fillthyanimal75]

You should do a build thread for the box vics!

[nick18sf]

Yeah I’ll probably do a separate thread from this one here soon

Nick

[nick18sf]

My brother started building his 10’.

Here it is stripped out


The 1.25” spacers are in


The bolt in cage went in great. It’s so nice to just put bolts in and your done. Only took an hour to put in




The trunk is totally finished now!

[noser23x]

Feb 1, 2019 22:37:28 GMT -5 nick18sf said:

My brother and I built an 03 and 08 last year and they were great! So why not build another pair of them. This time it’s another 03’ and 10’ the 03 is mine and I’ll be posting pics of it now. I’ll post my brothers 10’ soon.
I meant to make this thread months ago, but I had a hell of a time with photo bucket, tiny pic and any other one. I resorted back to photo bucket.
The two 03’s from last summer held up great, but why not try and make improvements if you can? So we did. I’ll point them out as I post the pics.
I hope you guys enjoy the thread and don’t find it to repetitive as last summers thread.

I welded on 1/8” plate on the rear frame rail in order to put 4x4 tubing on.



I started by cutting off 2” of frame from the nose. I didn’t do that last year.
I started by tacking plates on the frame then tacking the bumper on and then welding it all up




Got the rearend mounted up with half ztr brackets and stuff we made. Also trying 4 notches in the back instead of 2



Time for the body to go on. It was previously wrecked



The next thing was putting in interior bars. I had to use ropes and rachet straps to manipulate bars around







Started on welding the doors and trunk along with creasing out the trunk











The clip was damaged so I sent a lot of time trying to fix it with a winch, straps and cherry pick



I made 2.25” spacers from washers and black iron for the firewall to get the nose up higher. I raised up the core support 2” so I needed to do it. I also wanted it for tire clearence.

Saw something I can maybe give some advice on. Certainly not a shot at you considering I bet most guys on here are guilty of this including me. The vertical weld that held the bumper on, did you run that from top to bottom? The reason I ask is that the actual dig in of the weld doesnt look very deep. I am very guilty of vertical down welding, but on the last car I built I had a crack all the way down all 4 vertical welds on the bumper. I tri passed every weld on the bumper, and I had really good joints on the top and bottom which held the bumper on, still big huge cracks down the verticals. Vertical down welds are not very good at all at penetrating metal that is even over an 1/8" thick. It doesn't have time to put heat into the joint even with a welder cranked up. I always did it, but have since spent a bunch of time learning how to go vertical up. While it sucks it is a waaaay better, stronger weld. Figure this may help someone on here.