Projects Clipping our 57 chevy

Here are some pic of us clipping our 57 Chevy gasser, we had already put an axle under our stock frame rails but we are going lighter and installing a 502 and out comes the 454...here are some pix, this isnt the first one we do...
This was the car last year at Bakersfield for March meet and the car that was in Hot Rod Havoc 4

 

here is the car delivered to the shop and the 454 thats comming out...

 

here the front sheetmetal is stripped and Moonshine Bob is tending the 454

 

Moonshine Bob parting the tranny and eng...

 

Voodoo Stripped the suspension and doing what he does taking the sawsaw to it...

 

all the stuff is put aside, the front fenders and hood will all be fabricated into a one peice tilt unit...

 

This is what it starts with 2 Sticks and tubbing. here were setting up the angle fo the rails...

 

here is the front clip being mocked in, sorry i dint have pic of the fabbing, forgot my camera this day...

 

Squared it all up and welding it in...

 

the springs were mounted outboard with the old front rails, so we had to moved them in to fit the new rails...

 

made up some new front spring mounts...

 

Moonshine Bob talks to master metal fabricator Carlos Zuniga (standing) from Zuniga Metal Garage that stopped by to visit

 

there it is all welded in, down bars from the firewall will be added after we install the 502 and the fenderwell headers...

 

installing the 502 using some of our motor mounts

 

Moonshine Bob taking apart the front end to use only what we have to. the front sheetmetal is a one unit tilt now...taking more pix today

 

Wow that looks great mine is done similar to that it drives and handles great.... cool car..

 

wanna see that motor installed....lookin good man...

 

wow,I like that! good way to knock of weight and clean house at the same time. Looks good.

 

Looks good......doing it right!

 

i got Moonshine Bob cleaning out the sheetmetal for me to go in and weld it all together...a fibber glass front clip was out of our budget to get the car done for March meet...

 

by this time it was all welded up, sorry for no pix, i work at the shop full time and got to get things done...

 

and it swings open...we got this pretty much down to a T

 

Moonshine Bob going in for a closer look...he is flipping out how was it was done...

 

we found out that our steering box was busted so i had to fix it, probly from the road courses we did at OC labor day car show..

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there it is back on...

 

its comming along...

 

finished the bake lines and plumbed it

 

Agghhh I've wanted to do this to my sheet metal front end forever. I can't afford a fiberglass nose But gezze NO PICTURES?!?!? DAMNNNIT
Maybe we can get some of the inside of it all to see the set up. Please?

It looks real tough man, Gonna beat something up in a back alley

Cool man

 

looks pretty clean, next week we install the 502, trany, build the radiator support, shock mounts and firewall down tubes...

 

more 'probly' from the acute angle of that pitman arm...

you might consider replacing the box with one that lines up in a geometrical plane.

That's cast iron, incidentally. NOT a good fix, especially a steering component.