this is the engine stand I made in my shop class
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Looks good Tristan. Are you planning to put wheels on the front? If not you probably should get it situated where you want it before putting the motor on it.
yea I will put some on the front when I have some cash to get them
Very cool project! I especially like the paint job.
Good for you! By now of course you know that for about what it cost in materials you could have bought a decent one from HF but I'm sure that was not the point. I have an old engine stand I made decades ago out of old scrap bits I had lying around. A chunk of pipe for the upright (didn't even trim the upper end) an MG spindle, hub and rotor for the head, and an old timing chain and pinch bolt for a brake. I have better engine stands now but still use it. Today it is out in the shop holding up a transmission that is going in the TR-7, while the other two store bought ones are up on the shelf. It's something you can be proud of and no doubt you learned a few things while doing it that will benefit you in the future.
Jim
the price to make it wasn't that bad really I put in like 48 bucks for the metal the place I got it from cut it to the right size so I didn't have to buy the whole 10 ft of it and he gave me a thicker gage because it was convent for him so he didn't charge me for it so it will probly hold anything a can fi on there
ether way I built it because I needed one and I needed a project in that class (: