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Project Daytuna underway! More pics!
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12/26/08 10:25 PM
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Braved the 100 miles or so fo ice today to go down and take Ma and Pa out for Christmas dinner. After dinner I went to the shop and started tearing apart the Daytuna so we can get it into Patrick's shop and cut it apart. We will end up moving the firewall back almost 9 inches, move the seat/pedals around so that he and I both can drive the car comfortably (not at the same time  ) and change the downtubes around so the top of the struts are mounted to them, get rid of as much stock frame/sheetmetal underhood as possible, and fab up some tubular A-arms. Then, hopefully my nitrous huffing Slant and 904 will fit. If it does, then it goes to member Jeff57's shop to get some headers built.  Pics so far:     All in all not a bad car for what I gave for it. Just needs some love. 
"Everybody funny, now you funny too."
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Re: Project Daytuna underway!
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12/27/08 12:11 AM
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Was that pretty much a roller that you just need to revamp to you /6... should be a fun project. Will that be a N/A /6 or is it pressure time 
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Re: Project Daytuna underway!
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12/29/08 11:46 AM
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And I thought I had a lot to do!  Will it be ready for Kearney? CJ
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Started cutting today
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01/01/09 08:35 PM
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Went down and got some work done on the car today. Didn't find any big surprises when I was removing the firewall, everything was Arkansas just like I thought.  One thing I did see that I want to fix is the rack is way offcenter, and too narrow for the car. The passenger side tie rod is aboot 5" longer than the driver's side. My rack that I got from AJE for the Duster may just fit right in there. It's too wide for the Duster, it may be just right for the Daytuna.  On the trailer:  Lots of boxes I need to figure out:  Firewall rough cut out and strut tower notched for the down bar to go through:  Same thing, other side:  Gratuitous picture of my 340/stick I bought from Patrick:  First order of bidness is to run the new down tubes and mount the struts to them. Then we can get rid of the stock towers and a lot of the tin work around them.
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Re: Started cutting today
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01/18/09 11:35 AM
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Went down and got some work done on the car today. Didn't find any big surprises when I was removing the firewall, everything was Arkansas just like I thought.
One thing I did see that I want to fix is the rack is way offcenter, and too narrow for the car. The passenger side tie rod is aboot 5" longer than the driver's side. My rack that I got from AJE for the Duster may just fit right in there. It's too wide for the Duster, it may be just right for the Daytuna.
On the trailer: SLANT ,I DIDNT KNOW YOU WERE FROM CANADA.
Lots of boxes I need to figure out:
Firewall rough cut out and strut tower notched for the down bar to go through:
Same thing, other side:
Gratuitous picture of my 340/stick I bought from Patrick:
First order of bidness is to run the new down tubes and mount the struts to them. Then we can get rid of the stock towers and a lot of the tin work around them.
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