You channel job looks great. Do you have any pictures of the substructure under the sheetmetal? What kind of tubing did you use? And how did you secure the body to the frame.
That green T is BADASS!!!! My truck....4" channel....the yellow panels are @ 16-18 ga., they were vandalism panels for an excavator.......
With a 3" chop I did not want to loose any more head room , so I lowered the frame and cab and kept my stock floor board and head room .A pack of cicarettes wont fit under the cab.Back in the day thats how we determined if a car was low enough. LFE
im not saying fry didnt do a good job on his floor but ive seen alot of examples of people putting way too much steel in as there floor structure lately. we use 20 gage steel welded with silicon bronze rod in all the limited steet cars we build and they have one tenth the bars as the previous example. (thats a 2300 hp alchohol dragster). granted they are step rolled but............. i guess im just wondering why so many examples of this "overkill" ive seen lately. dude, fry, im NOT downing your work though! you did a good job.
I prefer overkill vs underkill, just my opinion. Plus it'd probably help if it was ever t-boned... I don't know why it'd matter anyway. Its not heavy, I only lost 1" of interior room and the steel was all free lying around. Wheres the downside? It could have been weaker? Less work? I'm on such a tight budget I have nothing but time.. Like I said it doesn't matter, its all getting changed, I'm going completely different route with the sedan.
well your right its def. not gonna hurt anything. i mean its def. safe i guess you just got more time in it is all and a little more weight. hope you didnt take it as a dig at your work.
Here's my 37 truck, still under construction, the top is now chopped and the frame is almost finished.
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