Motor mounts for a SBF are quite easy as they are a flat plate. I would have preferred to have some flexible motor mounts but with limited clearance under the cowl I have chosen solids for the engine.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1631069574

I haven’t forgot about the threads that I post. I have been busy with a rather large project at home that has been consuming my time and limiting my access to the car, or at least where I am building the car. (Guesses are welcome)
The project is currently outside and waiting to be restarted, but I still have many posts to get us through the winter. My modus operandi has been to post an update as I develop new ones. That allows me to make sure our -40 winters up here still have something that makes life worth living.
While I do plan on having more time to work on the car before the real cold sets in, that may not happen. Ultimately, we will start our winter postings when the snow starts to fall and looks like it is here to stay for a while.

OK its been about 2 months since my last post but I have a good reason. Its just when I say it out loud it doesn't sound as good?
I have been rolling quite hard on building a new shop to work out of and even with a lot of stuff for you to see in the bank I always had an excuse.
Well the local inspector has shut me down until I get better at acquiring proper permits. BUT, I did actually do some work on the car today and I like to trade a post now for one that you will see in the future.
This is just words but I am posting pics and text right away!
I hope there are still some out there that want to see them.

Needed the wires gone so I could continue with more work on the car. I didn’t lose any blood and I don’t have any deep lacerations so we can call that a good day then!
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1639285298

Egoman,
Love the project and your ingenuity
I even like the way you label pics
Pretty cool
Please keep us posted!

We are doing the last of the body positioning details so we can remove the body from the frame. This will make running all the lines and new wiring harnesses much easier. It isn’t just a matter of removing the body because we could do that at any time. The important part is to make sure it can go back in the same position.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1639705492

Decided that today was the day that the car would get out for a ride. That ride would just be on a trailer but a ride nonetheless. Backing the trailer in and running the ramps under the car but trying to catch the edge of the jig was an adventure.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1639967029

Decided that today was the day that the car would get out for a ride. That ride would just be on a trailer but a ride nonetheless. Backing the trailer in and running the ramps under the car but trying to catch the edge of the jig was an adventure.https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1640659338

Will you be able to get any progress done now that winter has set in?

I will be able to provide updates as the car is a lot further along than the posts show. That is by design to prevent dead periods in the forum.

We spent all that time building a car and now we are taking the body off. The trolley and the engine hoist are able to handle most of the chores required. The floor jack with the rigid pipe stands played a supporting role. (Get it, supporting role) I kill me, LOL.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1641261365

It was December 2nd and my friend Rod decided that we were going for a snowmobile ride. It was -26C and their was a 30km wind. That's only if you were standing still. We were travelling about 50-70 MPH most of the time.
Anyways this is where my trip that day ended. The Birchwood had a tremendous Burger and fries though!
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1641865028
That's what frostbite looks like. My friends were sure that I could continue. One of them wrote his sled off by the end of the day and has been off work since with a sore back. Once again I made a phone call to my friend David Winning to gather up my truck and come get me. This is what we do for fun in the great white north! Strangely enough there was no feeling of getting cold or any pain since it happened.

Freedom was fleeting but we are all back up on the chassis jig and the body jig.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1642473928

Closing out some areas, fitting headers, adding brackets, changing a mistake or two. You know regular car building stuff.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1643158549

Trimming motor mounts, making trans mounts, SIGH.
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After waiting on a colleague to do some plasma cutting for me I finally found what I needed laying on my desk. Thanks to Paul Jonker for helping me out. These pieces will become my coil-over mounts. You have seen the drawings for these several posts ago. I also had an adventure to acquire myself some inner wheel tubs for the rear of the car. I phoned the trailer place and they said that they had a few hundred in stock. GOOD, I will be right there. ½ hour drive and at the desk! We don’t have any of those here? I just talked to you guys and you said you had hundreds. “Oh was that our OTHER store”? Two hour round trip to the “other” store and I had them in my possession.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1644286766

Nice fab work :thumbsup:

Thank you sir. There's lots more to do!

Remember a few posts ago when I said I could get 16 gallons of fuel in the car? Well nothing works better than getting an actual item in your hands. A friend of mine (Jeff Pritchard) answered my Facebook question about a fuel cell and said he had one at the “friends and family” discount. Strangely enough this was one day after driving down that way to pick up the wheel tubs. Oh well it’s a nice drive with the classic rock station playing “Fat Bottomed Girls”. Turns out that I can get a more useable 22 gallon fuel cell in the car.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1645583529

Progress, a wonderful thing... :thumbsup:

The unicorn truck needs to become a lot less of a truck and more of a Cougar. We will strip it down and retrieve what we need and sell as much off as we can. I recouped way more than I originally paid for the truck anyways. Despite all that was removed today it still drives around the yard.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1646620339

Even though I already MIG welded the car, I felt that for a better looking cage I would have my friend Brent Johnston over to TIG weld all the visible welds. We ended up grinding a lot out so they wouldn’t be all lumpy. Brent worked for a local chassis welder for several years and welded aerospace for 18 years. I hounded him to join the union and he now is one of our best stainless welders. He also is now the shortest welder in our hall, a title formerly held by my other friend Dwayne Rudkavitch.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1647305411

Just a start on doing the wheel tubs. I bought some weld through primer from the local auto body supply place. WHAT JUNK! That crap went everywhere. I looked like the tin man when I was using that ****. Don’t worry in a future episode I find a much better product. I have some pictures here but it’s not that detailed as I needed both hands many times when a good picture could have been taken.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1647816965

I ordered the Ride-tech R-joints along with my suspension links and the coil-overs and it finally got here. Well most of it got here. They didn’t ship the suspension links. SIGH!
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1648518522

WOW everyone of the "New Posts" was a Camaro. But don't fret people, The dirty old Cougar has an update below.

Today we decided to put that money we spent “on the car”. In other words those coil-overs will look better on the car than sitting in the wheelbarrow in the sea can. Some of this will work out just fine and some will apparently not.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1649034131

Earlier in my build thread I stated that the guy I ordered my Vette parts from was a flake. Although none of the big stuff was missing a lot of the little bits didn’t make it here. Today I had to make something simple that was supposed to come with the deal. As long as the initial stuff took, I decided that it would be easier for me to just manufacture it.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1649907937

I needed to remove the U-bolts that were holding the rear end in place. They were interfering in the placement of the coil-overs. Because of this I had to make some fake radius rods and install the links for the watts linkage so it all stays in place.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1650504066

Today’s project was to do the driver’s side wheel tub. We can see if I learned anything from doing the first one.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/attachm...1&d=1650836438