SH4DY

Any updates on this? Was looking forward to seeing more of this awesome fab work.

I decided to cut out those two rods. The one was right on the panel and it was was already trapping trash and was going to make smoothing the area a shore. I'll be adding a another down bar but it'll be a single curved 1.5" dia tube. Made some progress (?) on stripping, blocking, priming the body. Still a long way to go. Hope to have it primed by the end of the weekend. Then on to the floor pans and trans tunnel...

Not sure why those pictures are so damn big

Started boxing in the former battery tray area: Trans is in! Going to have to redo the majority of the trans tunnel. Next step is to get a bead roller and start on the floors and finish the firewall. I think I might wind up going SLA ford 8.8": I started pricing out 5 lug conversions, brakes, suspension, LSD, axles, etc and its pretty cost prohibitive to keep the IRS. Pretty sure with a good 4 link and watts setup I can get this thing to handle pretty well... at least for any auto-x or back road driving I may do.

More welding for the drip rail: Trying to make this car as solid as possible with minimal bondo. Huge pain in the ass. Added some angle iron to help strengthen the front frame rails: After boxing in the lower portion of the rails I added a tubular piece to replace the factory frame rails. It is attached to the rear subframe. Mocking up the motor and the new subframe for the LS swap. I had some extra paint in the gun and wanted to see what it would look like on the car: Rustoleum Satin black mixed @ 15% with Acetone. Single coat. I like it. I think it'll compliment the carbon fiber well. Now that I have the motor in I can figure out the transmission mount and then start building the floors and tunnel.