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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 10:28 AM
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Looks good..Why are the bars all inside the car on the bottom? Mine are through the floor?Are you going to cut the stock pan out?Love the formula drag car look though..I used to have a black one..
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 06:19 PM
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Am I going to meet you guys @ MIR? My mustang will be ready in March for some shake down passes and than April 23rd is the real street kick off.
will be nice to meet you there.
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 06:32 PM
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will be nice to meet you there.
Let me know when you guys come down. I'll be the ONLY guy with an LSx stang there.
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 06:40 PM
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yea we normally do most of our racing at vmp havnt been to mir yet, but this coming year we will be, so im looking foward to meeting yall.
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Phil99vette
Let me know when you guys come down. I'll be the ONLY guy with an LSx stang there.
I think we're going to try to run points at mir. we only made it to one race there last season and managed to be number 1 qualifier with the old motor.
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 08:24 PM
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beauty of a car!
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 09:07 PM
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yea i see alot of these 25.2 cars with the bars underneath, or half underneath and coming through the floor on the passenger front side but im not sure why hes doing it this way. dave hunt is doing the cage, the car is at pat bennett race cars
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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 11:40 AM
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yea i see alot of these 25.2 cars with the bars underneath, or half underneath and coming through the floor on the passenger front side but im not sure why hes doing it this way. dave hunt is doing the cage, the car is at pat bennett race cars
I like the bars up higher it gives more room under the chassis, personally that's how I plan to do mine, bars on top of the floor, then I will remove those sections from the bottom and make new ones on top of the bars and cover it with the light weight carpet to keep it looking stock inside.
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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by sr71bbjr
Looks good..Why are the bars all inside the car on the bottom? Mine are through the floor?Are you going to cut the stock pan out?Love the formula drag car look though..I used to have a black one..
Is your cage mild steel?
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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 06:15 PM
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is he doing the car at pats? i saw the yellow camaro dave built for the lamberts its super nice it's a shame he's associated with bennet. he did there's on the side is he doing yours on the side or through pats?
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Old Dec 12, 2007 | 04:59 PM
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hes doing it through pats. actually just got back from the shop. just checking up on the progress,
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Old Dec 12, 2007 | 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by bdas70
hes doing it through pats. actually just got back from the shop. just checking up on the progress,
Well then it will cost you 3 times as much since it's got bennets name tied to it. as long as pat never lays a hand on it it will turn out nice.
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Old Dec 12, 2007 | 05:26 PM
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we were actually going to take it to another shop but pat was 4,000 cheaper, i havnt had any bad experiences with him yet, what do you have against him?

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Old Dec 16, 2007 | 11:27 AM
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Car looks awsome. Ill see ya at VMP and MIR this YR.

Phil,

Let me know when your going to MIR for shakedown passes and ill come up... at least Video for ya LOL

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Old Dec 16, 2007 | 11:55 AM
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heres some updated pics when i went wed. to the shop













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Old Dec 16, 2007 | 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by RAGENZ28
I like the bars up higher it gives more room under the chassis, personally that's how I plan to do mine, bars on top of the floor, then I will remove those sections from the bottom and make new ones on top of the bars and cover it with the light weight carpet to keep it looking stock inside.

You cant do a 25.2 cage in MS??? Why do you ask..And i disagree with the bars inside..Head room is already tight with them in the floor.I'm 6ft though..Why do you feel you need more room under your car?

BTW: Cage looks great ..I like ho he intergraded the kmember in.I take it this is a turbo car?
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Old Dec 16, 2007 | 01:43 PM
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Beautiful build, love the stance and how you got the 15x12's in there.
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Old Dec 16, 2007 | 01:52 PM
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well first its going to be a bbc nitrous, but maybe going to turbo or procharger, still in the air.
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Old Dec 16, 2007 | 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by sr71bbjr
You cant do a 25.2 cage in MS??? Why do you ask..And i disagree with the bars inside..Head room is already tight with them in the floor.I'm 6ft though..Why do you feel you need more room under your car?

BTW: Cage looks great ..I like ho he intergraded the kmember in.I take it this is a turbo car?
Just mis read thought it was a 25.5.

Head room isn't a problem when the seat is mounted to the floor, as far as more room under the car it's so I have more clearance to run duals under the car.
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Old Dec 17, 2007 | 01:25 AM
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well first its going to be a bbc nitrous, but maybe going to turbo or procharger, still in the air.
Your going to have to go turbo bro..Getting a set of headers passed those k-member ties will be more than challanging.
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