Took some vacation time so I could work on the car. Backbone and lower A-arm pickups almost done. Should get the a-arm tabs from the water jet guy tomorrow - that is if the nascar guys will stop it with the last minute orders for Daytona....
Rodger at
www.ironworksspeedandkustom.com stepped in at the last minute and bent some hoops for me - benders in my area had a 4 - 6 week lead time and I waited too late. Thanks Rodger !!! (and shipping in a Budnik box was perfect !)
I've never done this before - and it took a couple (now scrap) tubes to get the hang of bending offsets. I could bend 2 in a row, but when I tried to do the entire piece with 4 bends on this style bender - both sets would be on different planes and dog legged something awful. So I split it in half and will stub in an insert.
Going to complete the backbone tomorrow and finish clearing the underbody for the perimeter tubes that connect to the backbone.
Jim