Got a little accomplished over the weekend. Between blowing a seal on the two post lift hydro cylinder and almost dumping the car, and then my $20,000 plasma cnc machine crashing on me, it was a rather eventful weekend. Excuse oil dry in the pictures. When the cylinder blew, it sprayed everything within 30 feet with hydraulic oil. So we has quite a mess of oil dry everywhere trying to clean it up.
Any on to the details. I have been a little worried about structural rigidity of the body itself, with it no longer having the floor structure and all the factory cross members and bracing that are apart of the floor. So I cooked up the idea to reinforce the rockers. Fired up the plasma and cut a couple pieces of 1/8" plate to match the rocker from toe panel to where they meet the new morrision rear clip. Fully seam welded on the top and at the bottom at the lower rocker area. Then is that wasn't enough, took a couple pieces 1.75" DOM tubing , notched the ends to meet up with the subframe connectors made earlier and then welded them off to the new rocker structure. Should be plenty strong now. Only thing left to do is make a body mount plate for the rear subframe mount and get it on the car.
Also got a 1 square tubing structure built and welded up for the fuel cell
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Fletcher's Customs and Speed
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Trying to get everything fitted and in position before I start floors. That way I can get exhaust tucked up in car as high as possible, so in turn we can keep a low ride height. Basically building from trans crossmember all the the way to the back of the car. PLans are for the exhaust to exit between inner quarter and rear frame rails. Almost exactly like it would stock but the way I am building it actually will go up into trunk a little and completely over the rear suspension setup and out of the way. Still got a good bit to go but getting closer. Mixture of parts laying around, some new old 3" stainless Flowmaster tubing I had laying around, some leftover Pypes bends from Ty's car, Stainless Works 3" v-band clamps and some new pieces from here and there. You can also see the plasma cut hangars I designed to mount the exhaust to the crossmembers. There will be a 6' long stainless flex connector installed between headers and the front trans x-member to take care of engine movement. I am mig weldeding everything, and then will come back and fully polish the welds once completed then sent to a local company here for ceramic coating
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Chad Fletcher
Fletcher's Customs and Speed
229-221-4690 [email protected]
Here is the latest. Chad had some stuff come up like we all do and things slowed down for a while but he is back in the saddle now and expects to have the fabrication done by the end of the year. Pics from several weeks ago. These are DSE tubs that had 2" added to them.
Hydyne Motorsports is custom making a set of one off wheels. Here are the centers fresh from cutting. They will be polished and then anodized a dark grey.
Just read this thread for the first time, so excuse the random question.
Given your mention of 1000wtq and those beefy 35 spline axles, do you have any concerns over the aluminum rear end case ? I have the same case and I've never seen a tq limit on it, but I've always thought it represented a theoretical weak point in my driveline, interested if anyone at Moser had mentioned a TQ rating on that thing. I had one driveline guy in a booth at a car show say they should only be used up to 500 hp (I'm assuming he meant with slicks on a dragstrip).
Just read this thread for the first time, so excuse the random question.
Given your mention of 1000wtq and those beefy 35 spline axles, do you have any concerns over the aluminum rear end case ? I have the same case and I've never seen a tq limit on it, but I've always thought it represented a theoretical weak point in my driveline, interested if anyone at Moser had mentioned a TQ rating on that thing. I had one driveline guy in a booth at a car show say they should only be used up to 500 hp (I'm assuming he meant with slicks on a dragstrip).
In a drag racing application they are very common (if not used more than anything else). I have a friend using the Moser through bolt in his 2000rwhp true 10.5 car with no problems.
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