| DRJDVM's '69 |
06-05-2012 09:34 AM |
Car is back....made a quick hot lap...drove down 6.5 hours...went over the car, bull****ted, got some details finnished up and drove 6.5 hours back :)
Cris took my "to do list" as far as my budget would allow....wish my budget was bigger but it isnt...the work turned out great....just wish I had more $$ allotted to get more done
There were also a few issues I need to correct, that prevented Cris from doing some things on my "to do list". Not his fault....
The big one was the finalizing the pinion angle. I set my engine down at 3 degrees (based on all the info and recommendations out there) and did my exhaust, notched the frame, built a trans crossmenber etc etc. I was going to have Cris finalize the rear end pinion and weld on the brackets etc. Well my rear diff apparently is a decent amount higher than my trans output, so with the engine down 3 degress the working angle is too steep...so I either need to drop my rear diff, or up my engine angle to around 1.5 degress down......so it looks like I'll need to re-do the frame notch, trans tunnel, crossmember etc etc.....which is fine.....but I cant afford to pay someone to do all of that...and I can do it myself...so finalizing the pinion had to wait for now.
Still got a ton to do...... I'll post some pix soon....
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