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Originally Posted by syborg tt
Morning Doug,
I really likes Dan's idea of a full frame car. I would consider a chassis from the Roadster shop as they already have one ready to go and debugged !!.
I am not sure why you stuff the motor back so far. It is going to cause you another world of problems. Foot well space will be sparce at best. Unless this is a dedicated race car. Your going to have problems putting a radio, air or heat in the car.
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I appreciate the advice. Since this one is already this far along and the front and rear clips were both designed by AME, making it a full frame should be no big deal. It will still have the 3 and 4 links setup which makes it somewhat unique so I'm just going to run with it. We'll get it done and put this one in the books. Hopefully there were be other's to follow!
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Originally Posted by ironworks
I think this build gives a classic example of why using a guy that does this work for living with a nice resume of completed cars is a solid reason why those guys cost more. .
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Sadly, this started out with people who do this for a living and have a nice resume of completed cars. I wan't looking to skimp and I thought I had picked a strong builder to begin with. When it got moved to Chad, I realized I was going from a much larger operation to a smaller shop but that was the appeal at the time because it was the primary project for them.
I'll get it done. I'm going to continue the course on this build. Here is a link to one that has a very similar setup so the roadmap is already there. I am using. It turns out they set their engine back exactly the same amount. So with pics of the fab work, one of the local race car fab shops should be able to fab the interior sheetmetal.
I don't plan on using the floor to support the body. Using the current setup and making the few mods I mentioned, it should bolt right to the rockers in 4 places, the factory front mounts and the rear factory bolt location for the bumper.
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