[SDMAN]

I did finally get down to get the car out of what should be the last trip to the chassis shop.
They made the final modifications to the Art Morrison frame. Basically we changed the inner frame rails to allow placing the mufflers as far back as possible (where they belong), slotted the original round exhaust pipe openings in the frame to allow for the oval pipe and added some X bracing in the frame to make the NHRA happy. When you remove the floor and large chunk of the firewall, they have some very specific things you need to do for safety.
They added an NHRA legal 8.50 moly cage. We used the Alston pieces that make it possible to remove the door bars and rear cross bar for more comfortable street use.
The custom headers were also fabbed, and I could not be happier. They clear everything, dont hang below the frame at all and are big tube (2.250") primaries which the blown motor will like. We had Spintech fab us a 28 degree bend transition (from 4" round to the equivalent size oval) and just incorporated that piece into the header. Turned out sweet.
And, for the best possible 60 foot times, we added a drag race style torsion bar mounted behind the rearend in a pair of spherical bearings mounted to each frame rail. This is a drag race only piece that easily bolts on and off.
Time to get going on some serious assembly.

And the final stuff to get the motor ready has begun. More on that later.