And now for the best part! New wheels purchased from Vega$69. Again, i gotta say how great it was to work with him. He packaged my wheels for shipping very carefully and promptly. Hats off to great Lateral-G members like him. A before photo with the roller wheels and then the Forgelines.

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And the Forgelines. What a difference!!

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If you look at this photo it would seem like the body is too far back because the wheel wells are not evenly spaced with the wheels. When I first installed the wheels, i thought i royally eff'd up and mounted the body on the frame incorrectly. However, after waking up with fresh eyes this morning I realized it is only sitting like that because the last time i put the body on the frame, i didnt bother lining up the mounting holes, i just set it on there however it layed. After lining up the bolt holes today, everything is centered correctly. phewf.

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Awesome!
I bet your heart sunk to your stomach when you saw how the body sat on the frame!? Glad it was an easy fix.

Oh man, I was so mad at myself when I saw how it sat. I even measured when i was putting it all together to prevent that from happening and I started thinking to myself about how i could have screwed it up. I was depressed all night long. As soon as I walked in the garage in the morning I immediately remembered the last time I put the body on I didnt bother lining anything up. All things considered, this was a good fail!

I'm glad it was something simple. The wheels look great on there. Nice work!

Thanks for the compliments fellas. I am pretty happy about the progress so far.

-Aman

Haven't posted in about three years or so. Mainly because photobucket decided they wanted to piss on their customers....but nevertheless, here are some photos of the progress I've made. Still a long way to go, but baby steps...

Setting up the rotissere:

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I set up the rotisserie for two reasons. First was that I had the kit sitting in the crate for like a year and I wanted to see how it worked. Second reason was while it was up, I might as well clean up the welds and sheet metal on the underside.

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I also started to extend the rockers down so that they would be level with the frame.

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I didn't really like how it all turned out, and I had known an incredible fabricator in the area who I had do some trick work for me. He did a bunch of things. Most notable would be that he redid the front suspension to bring the car down to an acceptable rake from where the original morrison frame was at. He also had the great idea of extending the rockers out past the front of the body so that you had one continuous body line along the bottom of the car.

You can see in these photos how there was an outrageous rake opposite of what it should be. Even without the front sheet metal and engine and other components in there, it just was never going to be what I wanted it to look like. Here are some photos of the car when I loaded it up on the trailer to take over to the shop.

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