My daughter stopped by. Since she is only an inch or 2 shorter than me, I bolted the seat in and threw her in the car. I sat in it afterwards, needs to be tilted back a little bit more for me. I felt I was too upright. But now, you can see body, helmet relationships to cage.

You sure won't have to worry about me jumping in it and making a pass when you aren't looking!

Lookin more and more like a racecar...........good work..........

Yeah, well, to be completely honest, I did make one major mistake. I made a point of having the frame rail bottom edge 1/2" higher than the bottom edge of the rocker sill. I did that to drop the body as low as possible. I failed to consider the 3" frame rail height, which in turn, lowered the driver height. If I had to do it again, I would use 1 5/8" round stock and mount it 1/2" lower than the rocker sill, to have as much driver height as possible.

Not too much progress lately. Took the engine and rear axle out of the chassis. Rotated it around and completed all welds. Might now ne up to Jerry Bickel standards, but I can honestly say that every weld is solid and a full 360 degrees. I have been able to fully flip the chassis by hand, by myself, so I am real curious as far as how much this bad boy is going to weigh when complete. The chassis is only missing maybe 6 bars, not including gussets, brackets, tabs and so on.
I have been working on this project now for 13 months and although not complete, I feel I have made decent progress. There are some stick shift races and nostalgia pro stock races coming up in May that I would really like to participate in. Hopefully I will make it.
Taking a break for the rest of the year. Happy New Year to everybody here at Moparts!

Made some more progress today. Almost done. Then on to just spending money on parts.

Bad azz Kenny................

Didn't get as much done as I wanted, but made some progress. Made a new shifter bracket that locates the shifter 3" rearward and cut some new rods for it.

Also made some new tunnel ram linkage.

Engine sat pretty low in frame, so I raised it up 2" to get the oil pan inside of the frame rails. Now I can fabricate a belly pan under the engine instead of a diaper. Camshaft centerline will be approximately 21" off the ground. Highest point of body will be about 50" at rear of roof.

Christmas in March

Look at you go homey..............

Keep up the good work

I'm coming to your house for Christmas. Awesome.

New axles fit like a glove. Needless to say, the brake kit needed some mods. Rotor hat holes had to be opened up for the 5/8" drive studs. Slight misalignment on the caliper brackets to the axle flange studs. Opened up those holes slightly, too. Of course, I had no idea where I put the nuts for the flange T bolts, so another trip to Lowes.
Front strut fits pretty nice. Steering rack isn't going to be a problem. I thought I might have to notch the frame rails for the right angles, but everything is lining up great. If everything goes right, this should work with zero bump steer.

You've come a long way grASShopper...............looking good......

Well, it's a little less than a year and a half since I started this project. Finally, it's on the ground, although, only on three tires. Can't find another strut, so next week, I'm just going to order a new set. Made one mistake, but was easy to correct. Somehow my right front wheel center was 1 1/2" back, which means since all of my suspension mounting points were based off of the wheel center, all of my tabs were off. Wasn't a major deal. Will have it all straightened out by the time the new struts show up. Tomorrow, I will try to fit the body back on to get a full picture. Steering column coming from Jegs next week. Once the struts are in place, I'll make a rack mount and install the column.

Keeps gettin closer and lookin more and more like a race car..........

Body is on, for now. Cage actually fit inside. Imagine that? Sneezing all morning. Showered up and going to Easter dinner. Happy Easter to everyone.

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