Driver side inner fender fabed up to match passenger side. No ugly battery area now

Gonna fab up a dolly for the front, eliminate all the visible pinch welds on the rails, trans area and smooth firewall some. Then drop all the stock front suspension in favor of one of Bob's front end kits.

Like those assassin bars, got a web site or number? I'll save my cals for the other car.

Man, talk about deja-vu! I even modded my seat back similarly. FYI, you can mount a 2nd gen Neon wiper motor BEHIND the firewall and keep wipers if you desire. OK I promise I wont crap on this awesome thread again...

Google up Smith Racecraft. They have a good site and are good to deal with on the phone.

I was going to look into some sort of aftermarket hot-rod type wiper motor for behind firewall. What year's on the Neon wiper notor? Did ya have to fab up new linkage to the arms? I couldnt tell ya a 1st gen from a 5th gen Neon. LOL

What size tubing is this? Looks Killer!! Nice work!!




What size tubing is this?

4x6 3/16 wall

Wiper motor was off a 2001, IIRC 99-2003 neon are same. I cut both arms in two and welded old arm to new arm, then built a mount on inside of firewall mimicking the stock angle for the motor. I can get you a pic if you want tonight.

Pic would be great, no rush

I have a similar setup in my pro street demon but I'm using a wiper motor from a late 90's early 2000's dodge ram 1500. It's small but powerful and I only had to take about 1/4" out of one of the linkages. It works great.

I think these wiper motors are pretty common in the newer Mopars.

Nice I like it, reliable setup and hidden and cheaper than aftermarket hot-rod stuff. win win. Thanks

Really wanted to retain usable wipers for possibility of doing drag week.

Does your cage have a dash bar hidden under dash?

Yes it does, pillar bars are as far forward as possible and through dash. Had to notch the pedal brace for crossbar but I retained full use of glovebox to.

Very nice work!! Absolutely fantastic. You can tell you put a lot of thought into this build

Here is a shot of the dashbar taken through the glovebox opening.

I can measure the distance of it to the firewall if you have some A/C unit dimensions, I am interested in A/C eventually myself.

[quote=BuckeyeBrawler]Very nice work!! Absolutely fantastic. You can tell you put a lot of thought into this build [/quote

Thanks! many hours spent staring at it, I like to think of it as engineering time

Thanks for the pic, in research phase of AC/heat systems now. Really mostly to get windshield to defog properly and AC would probably be nice on drag week. I remember going late rounds in the roadrunner at night and windshield would fog if big drop in temp like that year at Norwalk running till wee hours.

Body dolly fabed up out of steel from old girls gymnastic balance beam (Thats why it's pink LOL) and dropped front suspension and pulled column out. Getting ready to smooth firewall.

What gauge sheet metal did you use for the trunk panels?