johnc Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 a lot of talk about John Coffey's car. Can anyone give me a link to some pictures? Its all talk now. http://www.betamotorsports.com/products/rod4sale.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oatmilk Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 he is a great guy. I was going to have him build me a turbo L-series header years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boodlefoof Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 I don't know what you think of this, but if you're worried about firewall flex (which I personally would be), my personal opinion is that you're best bet is to cut out the current trans tunnel and build a backbone frame in its place. This would take some time, but would not be too difficult. What you want to do is transfer load from the strut towers to the trans tunnel and then on to the opposite corner's strut tower. At the same time you could re-design the tunnel to give you more room to reposition (move back) the engine when you do your swap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
260DET Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Re the mounting of strut bars. http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?p=733724#post733724 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonus079 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 thats how i did it. i used 1/4 inch plates onthe firewall. i also used 1/8 inch sheetmetal behind the cowl to tie it into the dash. i had to do it like this because the intake on the engine im using is very tall (im not even sure ill be able to fit it under the hood). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMortensen Posted April 10, 2007 Author Share Posted April 10, 2007 Looking a little closer at my own car and bj's, it appears as though he has 2 sections of tube between the A pillar bars and the strut towers. One goes at an angle from the strut tower down to the firewall, then a second goes from the A pillar straight forward to the firewall. I like the idea of having a bar from the strut tower down to the A pillar bar (braces the struts in another plane), but it doesn't look like you can make a straight shot there without interfering with the pedals or the master cylinders. I'm thinking a straight bar would be better in terms of stiffness, so now I'm thinking more along the lines of the V to the dash bar at the dash bar height, and two straight bars back to the dash/A pillar bar connections at the same height. Any thoughts on which is better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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