I'm pretty lazy about updating my thread I spend all day on the computer and would rather spend my time building the car. Also this is a bit of a weird thread as most of the car is already built and I am only posting old pictures. But at some point I want to bring the thread up to date as I'm very excited about my current wide body project. So what I am posting up tonight is a bunch of "old" photos. however they are good fab photos of some homegrown work and I think some of you may find them interesting, and I wanted to post where I've been before I post where I'm going, so y'all can appreciate the journey a bit more. As you can see giant flares were the only way to encapsulate the monster tires and massive lowering that I wanted in the car, but after awhile the aesthetic compromise always bothered me. But before I reveal any of the wide bodywork I wanted to kind of purge the last of the old build photos. So a lot of these are kind of out of order, some are actually the older chassis and most are from before the brake setup I was posting earlier.
here is one featuer I really like - Undo some wiring and plumbing, and 4 bolts, and the whole front tray comes off. This tray supports the rad, the IC's, the oil cooler, the tow loops, the splitter/undertray and indexes the hood and front fenders, AND serves as a front crush structure. This is the old version with V'ed IC and Rad before moving to twin IC's flanking the rad.
Also, I'm no master TIG welder, but I like to think my alum welding has improved a little bit since these pictures were taken, but then again, none of the welds leak or have cracked.
One of about 5 versions of giant flares I've built - it really hurt one day when someone called them "dually truck fender flares"
air comes in the front end to feed the air filters and also the radiator, each one has its own exit duct. Note also I had teh "window into the engine" idea about 6 months before anyone saw the ZR1 and its hood window.
one iteration of the bodywork
rear diffuser/undertray a la Porsche GT2 RSR
