Re: OK! No more BS. Time to start working.
[Re: sgcuda]
#2345865
07/30/17 08:12 PM
07/30/17 08:12 PM
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sgcuda
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Started to tackle what I feel is the biggest challenge. How to mount the fiberglass nose for quick release. Bolting it down to the original frame was easy. But to mount a free hanging glass nose onto a tube chassis seemed to me to be a stretch of the imagination. I bought a Chassis Engineering kit and just stared at it for a while like a deer in the headlights. I started by making sure that after the doors were mounted in alignment, I mounted the back of the nose aligned to the doors, or at least temporarily. I welded the slide tabs to the frame rails and inserted the lower cross tube. I ran a temporary support across the top of the nose to hold it up, fabricated some metal tabs/outriggers from where the fenders bolt to the lower valance and welded them to extending tubes from the cross tube, finally welding them together. Came out very solid. Next week, I will add all of the upper fender supports, and have to remember to order some Dzus kits from Summit.
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Re: OK! No more BS. Time to start working.
[Re: sgcuda]
#2351866
08/10/17 01:41 PM
08/10/17 01:41 PM
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Posts: 13,363 Marion, South Carolina [><]
an8sec70cuda
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Very nice, but I'm surprised you bought one instead of building one yourself. Me and dad built one in an afternoon out of scrap metal, works great, and well worth it when it comes to finding issues before the motor goes into the car.
CHIP '70 hemicuda, 575" Hemi, 727, Dana 60 '69 road runner, 440-6, 18 spline 4 speed, Dana 60 '71 Demon, 340, low gear 904, 8.75 '73 Chrysler New Yorker, 440, 727, 8.75 '90 Chevy 454SS Silverado, 476" BBC, TH400, 14 bolt '06 GMC 2500HD LBZ Duramax
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Re: OK! No more BS. Time to start working.
[Re: an8sec70cuda]
#2352126
08/10/17 10:14 PM
08/10/17 10:14 PM
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Posts: 4,243 Charlotte, North Carolina
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Very nice, but I'm surprised you bought one instead of building one yourself. Me and dad built one in an afternoon out of scrap metal, works great, and well worth it when it comes to finding issues before the motor goes into the car. Chip, with my amount of free time being at an absolute low, I have to make the best out of what I got. I haven't even had time in the last month and a half to do much more than sweep out the garage. Trying to impress the top brass has become a very taxing situation for me, and I'm not even sure if everything is going to work out in my favor yet.
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