"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave)
09/19/2016 at 20:25 • Filed to: None
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"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave)
09/19/2016 at 20:25 • Filed to: None | 5
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This is work of my friend who was instrumental in me getting to know Mid-Ohio, helping teams, meeting drivers and crew members. Without he and his Dad I likely never would have gotten to experience all the insider stuff I did for a few years with various teams. He now lives in the Atlanta area and after Kinetic Motorsports scaled back its team for a while he found himself working elsewhere as more a full-time machinist with just an occasional automotive project. Between industrial and medical equipment fabrication he does stuff like this.
He sent me the first few pictures of this Lola several years ago when they fabricated the new headers for it.
Its purely sexy work , they do fantastic stuff at this shop.
I recently got an update on more work this year on the same car. That is all in the following shots. They installed a cage and did some other work. You can see the headers have had some heat discoloration in the later shots. I love the look.
Then somebody brought in a rare Ford Thunderbolt that needed new headers . collectors and H-pipe fabricated so there was that. Chris himself has an El Camino and a Cobalt for daily drivers. Both have a few one off fabricated pieces that he sees fit to re-engineer when they wear out. Wish I was closer to Atlanta so I could get some stuff made for the A3. I might be discussing a few suspension and engine part ideas with him to make my 3.2 a bit more unique.
Here are the Thunderbolt pictures. Crazy that he used to fabricate Porsche and BMW NASA and Koni Challenge car chassis but now this stuff pays the bills. Hope you enjoy the pictures he has shared with me of fabricating those after taking apart the originals to replicate them. Sorry about the 2 pictures that wouldn’t post right side up. I guess they are just kinja’d.
Can you see why my title for this post is a question if this is just fabrication or is it art? I say its art pure and simple.
yamahog
> Dave the car guy , still here
09/19/2016 at 20:27 |
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I am super tired and 100% thought the title was “Christ: Fabricator or Artist?” and I was NOT READY for that discussion, so these automotive works of art are very much welcome.
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Dave the car guy , still here
> yamahog
09/19/2016 at 20:30 |
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Haha , maybe I’ll go with that other title on some nature pictures if I get better with my new Canon DSLR. I’ve BTDT with miss-reading titles on forums, too funny.
Roundbadge
> Dave the car guy , still here
09/19/2016 at 20:37 |
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My goodness...tremendous work, there.
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Dave the car guy , still here
> Roundbadge
09/19/2016 at 20:55 |
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Chris used to work around here in the Kent and Akron area, fabricated secret stuff for the military before he got hired away and moved to Georgia to do racing stuff. If I was down there I’d have him make me the R32 type high flow cat system for the A3. I know where I can buy catalyst cells for my stock shells and after replacing them would just need to cut out a resonator and go straight pipe on one side of the Y-pipe. Just not in the planets though to drive all the way there for the work, just about the same money to pay for a system as make the trip.
random001
> Dave the car guy , still here
09/19/2016 at 21:39 |
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I wish to know more about this “Chris"...
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Dave the car guy , still here
> random001
09/19/2016 at 22:15 |
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Can’t say more because his company insurance frowns upon them doing speed work , prefers them doing general machinist work. But if things change I will then post shop name etc. At one point years ago they did more automotive and now just have a few past customers they will do a a few jobs a year for between regular work. I asked him about posting the shop info but he requested for me to keep that secret.
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> Dave the car guy , still here
09/19/2016 at 22:24 |
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Does his craft serve a purpose? Is that purpose functional? Then sadly it cNnot be art.
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\neckbeard
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random001
> Dave the car guy , still here
09/20/2016 at 06:40 |
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Understood. But if you have more art to post, please do. I’m having an eyegasm in this thread...
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Dave the car guy , still here
> random001
09/20/2016 at 07:44 |
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No problem. If I get pics of another project I’ll forward them . Too bad I already deleted the custom intake and intercooler pictures from a Hemi that they did before the Lola the first time. The work was just as nice.