Well - it's only been about 4 years of quiet on this car...
Here are the cliff notes...
1. Bought, modded and sold a Fox Body
2. No GT350. Was holding out for a GT500 but subsequently left Ford Performance so that's out too. The good thing is the new job gives me a bit of time to work on the car!
3. Had been slowly working on my own chassis design. Peeled it back some to use some current Mustang chassis parts. Was originally going to put this into the fox body but since that's gone - the Firebird is the only target! All the geometry was worked out in CAD - checked bump steer, camber gain and ackerman to make sure all were where I wanted them to be.
4. Ordered a bunch of laser cut tubes and plates that have gone together amazingly close to as planned.
5. Have sold a bunch of parts that will no longer be used / needed. All the BMW stuff is going away. It was a cool idea, but all the front stuff was probably going to need to be reworked or redesigned and there was still alot to do out back to tie in the IRS.
6. Car will have 15.5" front brakes so it will have to run 19" wheels. Planning to run 315's on all corners.
Hoping to be able to provide more updates over the next few months! In the meantime here is a shot of the CAD work on the frame rails and the current state.
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