Posted on June 9th, 2012 by Rick Thompson
I didn’t like the setup the way it was so I cut it off the car and started to redo it. Now the control arms sit at a 40 degree angle. That looks much better and should make it ride about right. One side is on and located properly. The right side still needs redone […]
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Posted on June 7th, 2012 by Rick Thompson
I didn’t have much time to work on the car today but I managed to get the second strut tower located and spot welded in place. This at least let me move the furring strips and ratchet straps and get some good pictures of how the rear looks. I am not real happy with the […]
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Posted on June 6th, 2012 by Rick Thompson
Today I got one strut tower located and some framing welded up to hold it in place. The passenger side is now located where it is supposed to be but it is not fully braced so it can’t support the weight of the car yet. The drivers side will be next. I also dug out […]
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Posted on June 5th, 2012 by Rick Thompson
The last two days have been getting the car squared up. Since the concrete was flat and the lift arms were square it made getting it lined up much easier. I started by squaring up the front end and getting some chalk lines on the floor. From there the lines were transferred to the body […]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2012 by Rick Thompson
Today I cut out the brackets out to make the lower mount for the suspension. It took a while to get everything shaped properly so I only got one side built. I will weld up the other side tomorrow. Once I get the lower sides built I can bend and form the connection between the […]
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Posted on June 1st, 2012 by Rick Thompson
First step in trying to get the chassis rolling is to build the suspension parts. The first part I need is the top of the strut tower. So I pulled the suspension off the vert body so I could get a template of the strut tower. I traced out a pattern and cut and drilled […]
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