Listen, don't hurt yourself, take it slow. Baby steps.

From what Itis has told me about the drivetrain upfront, that phat-azz 63' could benefit from some reduction. He's carrying the worlds weight for sure. I'm intrigued to help him shed some of that 3900 Lbs in any way that I possible can.
Baby steps yes, cause it should be neat and from what that car is already, he can get away with some modifications that are obvious where as I am trying the opposite by hiding things in the fog of stock.

I gather that if one of those new Challenger Demons would take a hint/wink from this thread, we'd have a monster on our hands and footing.

Guess I'll be charged with contributing...

Skicker Yes, You are guilty as charged. I remember you giving me the wink smile when I was studying the part at your booth in Carlisle. You automatically knew what I was scheming to try and do.
I was also thinking of fabricating it all in aluminum, but I still don't trust the space age adhesives out there to try and mend aluminum with steel parts in such a crucial front end structural brace. Bolts and rivets just would not cut it for me in the looks department either.

Thank you for your contribution.

We spoke about that!Now I need a scale for the rear brackets!
I'm off to the shop!

Now without that Elephant in the nest, the car weighs 2000 lbs wet. LOL.
I'll call you later next week or so.

I guess that's one way to take weight out of that car. Leave it to Al to go to the extreme.

Yeah right.
When my Men in black finally released Al the other night in the middle of the deserted Nassau Coliseum after the Area 51 visit, he told me he was going on an extreme diet.
I guess he's registering the car for the Mobile economy run with us as his horse power.
I'd love to see a push race with cars sans engines going down the 1320.
Hemi-itis, you're runner up with a by-run. LOL.

If I'm able to get to the grotto late this weekend, perhaps I will have the first of the aluminum longitude braces locked in and ready for some cosmetics to finish the finish.
Next will be a date with the scales.

Chippin away,,,,,,

That Alloy head already looks happy on the motor though it seems to be quite a feat to get all the parts to correspond with each other.
The car looks great with a hood installed.
Is it on the bed and going back to your garage?

Anyone make aluminum hinges for glass doors?

The only ones that I know of are for the early 64'-65' B's. Non that I've heard for A's but I could be wrong.
They are a complicated piece and need to be precision in order to work properly.

Found a pair of main bearing spindle jam nuts just like these at Met-Tec fasteners that were left overs from a run of them for a Nascar team.
Wonder which Team ordered these. Those roundy round guys are straight up neat cheats.
I'll weigh the originals and compare them to these jammies.

Couldn't find the other thread with the aerodynamic discussion, so I've applied here.
Basically, I fabricated these out of light gauge aluminum panel and break formed certain edges to correspond with the underneath rear chassis and directly attach to the leading under edge of the rear bumper. It was this area that I felt was a catch 22 wind situation where it was holding some speed wind captive at top end.
Here are the two outer end pieces that are on the outside part of the rear chassis longitudes. The center piece is a simple copy of these but just longer in length. They pop in easily with some good rivets.

What is all that heavy black material on those???

Likely the coating from the SR-71 knowing FMJ

That sounds like NASA stuff

The center wind foil. I know these parts look a little rough, but a little massaging with the body hammer and paint and all is good as new. Trying to find a NY minute to install them back underneath the new black chrome bumper.