Nah, Im not nearly qualified to weld on chassis. It started life as an Art Morrison Max-G frame and I had a local race car shop make a few 'tweaks' to it. Actually, it needed to be tweaked because I couldnt get it made the way I wanted directly from A/M. So I did the next best thing.
It worked out real well. I will be going back to the local shop for the floor work and the cage necessary for the NHRA certification. Originally I was just going to go with a 10.0 type setup, but Ive been assured that it will be considerably quicker than 10.0, so the next cert level is 8.50. Not really a big deal, as both certs require door bars and the cross bar in back of the rear seats. Those are the pieces that make daily use a PITA. The additional bars for the quicker cert are pretty much out of the way from the seats. I guess eventually Ill see how bad it is. Ill be using moly tubing, which can be smaller diameter than standard DOM, so maybe that will help a bit. Doubtful. Also, the shop doing the work said they can make the bars as 'unobtrusive' as possible. Whatever that means. Im pretty sure Ill be covering as much of it as I can with padding.
Im anxious to get the body on this thing. Cant wait to see it at the actual ride height with the tires tucked in and up. But that wont be until mid to late July. Also need to trial fit the one piece VFN front end. Gonna do that this weekend just to see how well we did in front tire placement. Might get a pic or two of that.
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