Hey, gang. I wanted to share some pictures of a project that we're working on for a customer. This is a chrom-moly rear-engine dragster from 1982; someone in the past cut the front short and extended the rear. Our customer, a local Flathead/Inline racer, bought it and decided to make it a twin-Flathead-powered car. After ac***ulating a bunch of parts, he brought it to Hanksville to have us do the fabrication and ***embly. The rear-end is a pretty heavy-duty quick-change that is coupled (Mark Williams splined coupler) to a shortie Powerglide. The engines are being built by Joe Albin and will also be connected to eachother with Mark Williams couplers. This car will run a couple of different engine combinations: the "quick" combination will use twin 255 c.i. alcohol injected flatties, while the "quicker" setup will have a single blown nitro-injected 315 c.i. Flathead. The ch***is has been pre-inspected and will cert to 7.50, so the hope is to run quicker than 9.99 with the two engines, and somewhat quicker with the single big engine. The front-end is a hard-mounted funny car drop tube axle with rack-and-pinion steering. We fabricated a tubular "grille shell" from .75" chrom-moly, and a tank from 4" tube (after it's painted it should look something like a shotgun shell) to hide the rack. We fabricated the headers from 1.625" 304SS. Each pipe features two custom mandrel bends, on a continuous length of tube, each with a different bend radius for a unique appearance. We're currently working on the sheetmetal, which will look reminiscent of a front-engine dragster. I'll post more pics once the sheetmetal is further along.
Guess he doesn't have to worry about blowing that rear end....gonna be cool when it gets done, look forward to more shots of it.
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