I definitely agree on the too much wheel lip thing. Throws the front to rear balance visuals off. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out with the fronts on it. Good luck with the build.

Cool car! Any chance you will be up at the Metro cruise in GR next month?

No plans on painting the car. I'm ok with some of the checking at this point. It's done a number on my wallet to this point anyways:superhack:

I think it's going to be a nice little ride also......thanks!

I wish....... Probably won't quite be done at that point.

I will be at Gingermann this Friday checking out the action at the motor state challenge.

TCI ProTouring front suspension going on.

I initially liked the silver. It was powdered but any little thing that bumped it would make it chip off. It was never sandblasted. The powder coater put the parts through a phosphate etch and said sandblasting was not needed. After I put more of it together I didn't like the silver. You will see in later pics that I re-powder coated it. The black is much stronger.

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Budnik shotgun g wheels. I would have loved some forgelines but maybe later.......

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Tunnel time!
I did not have a motor at this point in the build but I had a buddy that had a broken ls3 block. This saved me a considerable amount of time. I bought a QuickTime ls to mopar housing because the viper transmission has a different spline and length than the t56 for the F body's. It's rated at 550 ft-lbs vs the gm equivalent 450ft-lbs

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Original floor and man it was perfect!
By the time I trimmed a little there and a little here the whole tunnel is gone. I set the drive line angle to about 2.5 degrees+\-. I had to cut up the tci trans mount and modify it to my specs. The drive line angle looks perfect under the car.......hope it's vibration free!

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z...magejpg4-7.jpg

Great progress! Keep it coming!

Made the tunnel in two pieces. I transferred the template to sheet metal and formed it. It was the first time that I used cleco pins. They work great.

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z...agejpg1-16.jpg

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I love what you have done so far,great job:thumbsup:

Nice job on the tunnel. Cleco's are nice and you will now think of ways just to use them :D