I moved some things around and cleaned up the shop. Got started on the front-end.
I got the front frame sections and firewall, located them with the mounts that I made prior to tearing the car apart. I then welded them into place (checked everything with the frame specs first). Welding them into place consisted of installing the DSE connectors and adding another locator x-member on the frame table. Adding that x-member allowed me to remove the bolt in location so that I could bolt up the DSE front-end and check it for squareness, parallelism to the rest of the car. Since the upper locations were also removed, I could adjust everything to be right on prior to assembly it again. There is enough play in everything that you can put it where you need to.
Public service announcement - if someone wasn't very careful in putting a car back together from being torn down this far.......you could easily make a mess. I've probably been overly critical, but the alternative scares me to death. With all of the money I've spent on this thing already, I can't afford to ruin it!
OK - enough rambling - - Pics
This pic shows how I located the frame sections using a spare factory x-member.
