Withdrawal occurs because your brain works like a spring when it comes to addiction. Up dates with pictures are brain depressants that push down the spring. They suppress your brain's production of neurotransmitters like noradrenaline. When you stop getting up dates with pictures it's like taking the weight off the spring, and your brain rebounds by producing a surge of adrenaline that causes withdrawal symptoms.

Happy 2014 from Team BMF. :D

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:clap: Nice, and thanks Dave
BTW, missed you on todays chat buddy.

Speak for yourself! :mock:

Yeah and whose fault is that?! :poke:

Updates from Fab53
 

After cutting and making clearance for the SB2 motor and trans in BMF, cardboard templates were made for the proposed motor mounts to the front engine plate. Also a transmission cross mount was needed and some modifications were in need for the existing Torque Arm mount for both of these cross braces to tuck under the frame line. The biggest issue is that BMF runs 3.5 inch exhaust pipes after the headers and I did not want these to hang below the frame line either. I will be making a custom section of exhaust tubing which will be a half oval that is 2" tall and 5" wide to fit under the new cross brace cut outs. Also the cross braces were raised into the floor to help make the necessary clearance and still keep the spanning strength by not trimming the cross braces so thin that they would flex.

The design that was used actually attaches both the trans mount and the torque arm mount together to help "Beef-up" this area of the car. An 800hp motor and the lifting effect of the torque arm from sticky 335 slicks was a concern, and I wanted to make sure the core was reliable, strong, and easy to access for servicing.

So, follow along as I share Dave's 68 Camaro progress.... We have a race deadline you know. :)


I knew I would be doing some changes to the interior to add the Oil sump tank, fire system, pedals, and sheet metal work... The interior was removed.

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BMF has a pretty nice roll gage already installed in the car. However, I will be adding a front dash bar and connecting the exiting gage to the new engine bay down bars. Also I will be adding some down bars from the rear gage area to the top of the rear coil-over mounts to tie the complete system together. Safety first.

But before this is addressed, I will start with the cross braces under the car.

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A design was settled on and transferred to a section of 2" x 4" .120 wall square stock.

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And the cutting and fitting begins. There are several stages to this part and this is the first step just to get it up in position for additional measurements and marking for the next stage.

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Test fitment #1, pushed up level with frame and then loaded the transmission weight on the rubber mount and marked it up for the rubber mount bracket.

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Notice the position of the original Torque Arm. It has even been moved up to touch the floor (after the body mounts were removed. Gained .75" of clearance). However, the mounting tabs still hung down and they were not an easy removal process when the mount needed to be removed for transmission service. Also notice the old exhaust cut out section on the torque arm mount. The torque arm mount will be moved and modified to match the new transmission brace.

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Some parts were made based on the prior mock up, and then the cross brace was mocked up again and the parts were tacked into position with a load on the rubber trans mount.

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This stage is ready for welding. It needs to be strong enough for me to load the weight back on it for the next stage of making the side frame mounts.

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Another stage to this trans mount, making parts for the cross brace to mount to the side frame rails. I didn't have a lot of room to do the traditional slide into place frame mount and I wanted this trans brace to just drop out for servicing. It's mounting strength will be combined with the torque arm brace in another stage of fabrication.

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Nothing fancy here, just a small tack inside to hold the spacers in the cross brace so that the 1/2" mounting bolts will not pinch the cross brace and weaken it. The ends will be closed up in another fabrication stage later.