A Long thread on this guys progress of building a hummer the body is impressive but must weigh alot and time and cost wow wouldnt even want to guess take a look

http://fullsizebronco.com/forum/show...t=25748&page=1

 

That looks like some awesome fabrication.
It looks much better than my homemade custom chopper.

 

Some sweet work!

 

Seen it, like a million years ago.

 

That is freaking amazing. I wish he was doing a better power plant/ suspension on it tho. Still amazing!
-Patrick

 

Dude - do you actually ride that wooden chopper? If so, you must dangle a set of Truck Nutz off the back, cuz you got a pair...

 

How you gonna beat a PSD and a Dana 60?

 

Impressive...


Most impressive...


With all the metal he's using, his hummer will be better built than what the Army has... That vehicle is in it's 20th year of service; but still a mean machine... I saw a few contenders rise over the years in the form of a F-250/350 and a Chevy 2500/3500, but none have come to the light as a true Hummer replacement.

This is one time I'd argue, that a replacement isn't needed... Unless it can be built better, and sold cheaper. (It costs the Army $30,000 for a freaking hummer, and that's a shell with vinyl doors), I can only imagine what the up-armored Hummer costs. My only gripe (from a soldiers perspective) with the hummer (HMMWV) was that it offered "zero" protection from small arms fire, and that it was quite drafty. In a cold climate, unless you were sitting still, you did NOT want to be in a hummer. Once you put it in "D" it's like all the heat escaped through the multitude of cracks. You'd freeze your n**s off at anyspeed over 15 MPH. Meanwhile, your friends in the CUCV (Silverado) were nice & toasty at 40, 50, 90 MPH.

 

well i posted before i got to where he picked up that mini bus with the diesel, and the dana 60 is a badass rear end, but that doesnt mean he has an agressive suspension.
-Patrick

 

Yeah, I thought the springs he used on the front were a little light in the ****, but- this is one man, with a budget... Not a corporation like (GM) with super-deep R&D pockets. He said he's not gonna crawl rocks in it, just on road duty, with some "light" off roading (maybe).

If it were me, I'd have gone with a beefier spring, even if it meant waiting a payday or two, considering the vehicle looks like it's sprung weight will be substantially heavier than a GM Hummer.

 

I dont think that is going to be the case. Have you ever seen an H1 those things are tanks, with huge SLA suspension front and rear, huge frame, onboard air compressor, tons of computer gadgets inside. I would expect the H150s sprung weight to be about 500-900 pounds lighter then a real H1

And later in the thread he also used the coils off that bus, instead of those punny rusted ones.
-Patrick

 

Really? OK, cool...

There's no denying, that guy's got talent. It looks so much like a real Hummer, I'd think he must've either had access to one, or had the blueprint, to so closely mimmick the real thing. The real Hummer (The Army version) uses a lot of composites in it's composition. Not as much metal as one woudl hope. The entire hood is fiberglass, with the exception of the vent. That looks like a Army hood he put on there, I saw a hint of camoflage on it. I wish I had that kind of fabrication talent, especially interior fabrication.

 

he bought the hood from GM for 100 bucks. everything else he did himself. and i think he said he took all the measurements off of a real hummer, and mocked up a drawing of it.

 

Dana 60 up front. He'll use the Sterling 10.25 from the van out back. I'll try to find in there how much the metal weighs that he bought, but it is suprisingly light.

Edit: Mind was changed again, he's gonna go with at Dana 50 TTB

Adrianspeeder

 

In 2001 a "uparmored" one shipped to the 1CD was something like 75,000.