Now that most of the "bones" of the chassis are in place, it is time for more serious sheet metal fabrication.
Here are the foot box, firewall, and driveshaft tunnel pieces. Uh oh, looking a little rusty. Surely things aren't starting to slow down, right?
Trans tunnel has ended up as 3 pieces.
Floor pans.
Hmmm, it looks like a traditional 14" round air cleaner is not going to work. The back of it clashes with the base of the windshield. The motor is way back there.
Rear firewall and wheel tubs and shaping up. I wanted an interesting design in the bead roll work, and that is what I got.
The fuel cell cage frame work is done, and is now being skinned with sheet metal. Lots more bead rolling.
Door panel design with the cage bars.
Since I figured the car would be finished soon, I ordered my Rivals from Tire Rack. Wise to order ahead of time since they are out of stock in the larger sizes most of the time.
That is alot of rubber.
Package tray is way cool. We have something special in mind for the center section.
These shock reservoir pass thrus were made by RideTech for one of their shop cars. I saw them at a Good guys show, talked to them about them, and it turned out they had one more set. I bought them.
Everything in place. Each pieces will be held in place by many 8-32 stainless steel button head screws.
Starting to look like a real car.
The factory core support won't mate up to the new frame rails, so White Rino is making another one out of aluminum. It looked too much like a stock piece, and not "racey" enough for me. I had them stop work on this. This post covers most of 2016. Progress was slowing down. Things need to change. I am going to have to do some things myself to get them like I want them.
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