75mm vs 88mm. I'm the one who's going to need the leave! Haha

Race weight will probably end up at 3500. The car still has 160# of dynamat and a full sound system.

 

I like your style. cant wait to see it come together

 

What I said "In Deep" doesn't even do this justice lol. Cant wait to see the fabbed front end.

 

haha Thanks guys.


Been busy helping my best friend move into his new house, but I did manage to get a bit done tonight.

Ran some short A-pillar bars up to the dash bar, which I made of 1-5/8 and tied into the OEM A-pillar. Then for extra rigidity Im putting little X's in the doors.

I think this design is a good compromise for my little streetcar.

Tomorrow, I have to finish the drivers side door X and figure out how Im going to do my front frame rails.

I got most of the parts I ordered. I am just waiting on the tubing.. Im pretty much stuck until I get that.

 

Awesome build!

 

Haha! Nice quote. That was from 5/19/2009. For the record- I was talking about welding shock tower seams......NOT chopping a car in half.

Just be careful when putting things back together. Measure everything 10x to make sure things are straight. And make those welds count- no failures.

 

Just looks a little extreme for a DD

 

I agree. But watch in 5 years this will be an outlaw 10.5 car

 

Yea, definitely. I never posted pictures here, but I build a tube chassis Fiero for a chassis design project, and that turned out damn near perfect, so this is really no big deal.



Probably, but still no changes that would keep it from being DD-able... Sure most people think Im crazy, and they're probably right.

This will make it super easy to work on. I really hate out engine bays... so problem solved.

My future plans will leave this car as my "small tire grudge car".
Then I want to build a ~500whp turbo T/A, everything bone stock, T56, A/C, no chassis mods. Which will take over DD duty.
Then I will get to work building my big tire car.

haha, This year I plan to spend a lot of time at the track(Ive never ran at the track). so next year, I hope to get a feel for what class I'd like to build a car for.

 

Awesome man I will be watching this build. Gotta just jump in and do it that's how we did my car I took out the sawzall and went for it. It's just metal.
In the next year or so doing the same just deciding if outlaw 10.5 or what class I want to run

 

Im bumping this up. Is in the scrap yard yet or on the front cover of a magazine for the craziet snow ball build ever.

 

Ya whats the deal with this... i keep checking back every now and then feels like its been a year since an update?

 

Yeah we need updates!! You were the final bit of inspiration I needed to start chopping more on my car (and other things). After asking you about your tools/toys a while ago I've finally acquired a tig welder, mig welder, and a tube bender... ***** about to get real

 

With those tools your acquired, you're bound to really "F" things up.

 

No doubt, I'm scared for my car... and everything else in my garage.

 

I have to say from looking at the last picture in this thread. I do not think this car is put back together or road worthy. I mean there is nothing left of it. If it is back together does anything line up? Dare I mention hows the alignment on that thing?

 

cough

 

Gonna go with this lol

 

I think he died.

 

Be cool to see it done but sadly this car will probably never see the road again.