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They fit real good. But I ordered VFN post doors. And the door part fit good but the upper post part I'm steal working on.. If I had to do over I...
We will be at steel in motion!!! And will be racing!!!!!
We are a little ahead of the pics. We are getting ready to put paint the car first of this coming week!!! I will post pics when we get finished...
Yes sir, Here are some pic of the Aluminum work started...
We got the fiberglass in finally. One piece frontend and doors from VFN. Now the hard part of fitting them...
As I have been building the car. I got a little abscessed about weight. This is my first drag car build. LOL!!! I put everything I had at the time...
Yes sir, I think they would hold up longer.
These are the front brakes. I took a 1950 chevy car hub and machined it to fix a Strange strut rotor. And made brackets to bolt on Wilwood 4...
Made the new steering arms these are a lot lighter. Mounted the front shocks. And mounted the steering stabilizer we use a VW one. They are small...
I ordered them from a round track shop here in town. They are 100 lb spring rate..
I'm not sure I bought the rears from Quain and found the fronts on e-bay. They are china knock-offs. But I sold them and changed them a old...
Yes our rules say you can run coil springs if they are bigger like a factory 60's car. The ones I have on back are 5 inch springs. And will be...
I also switched to coil spring in place of leaf springs and save even more weight and got adjustable... And added a drive shaft loop..
Got the Hightower trans in and motor mounts and mid-plate and trans crossmember DONE!!!! I made the trans crossmember out of aluminum to save a...
I got it off e-bay less than a 100.00 shipping and all....
Getting started with the mock up motor and trans. We changed up to a sbc engine to save weight.[ATTACH]
Here's the steering box witch is off a 1963 Fiat spider. I got the idea for this box off Gene Cromer willy that's whats on it. It only weighs 5.8...
Thanks guys. I just loaded a ton of pic to photo bucket. We are making awesome progress!!!! I will start loading pics over the next few days and...
Well guys after months. I have some awesome news!!!! I didn't go overseas to work. And a few months ago I bought back the BOOGIE MAN. And have...
Well guys, I got good news and bad news... The good news is that I might have and deal overseas to build hotrods and be part of a new car company....
I want to give Gene Cromer A BIG THANK YOU!!!!! For hooking us up with our engine block 427ci tall deck. Witch we will be building a little more...
Here a quick pic of the mocked up stance...[IMG]
Got the front wheels in and mounted. Now we can get the stance right...[IMG] [IMG]
Got a little work done this week added a few more bars.[IMG] [IMG] And got the boogie man on the ground set up real close to ride height. [IMG]...
I like all the pics of the BOOGIE MAN keep them coming want be long and will have to pick one. To paint on the car... Here's some pics from the...
First of four floater brackets made hope tomorrow to finish the other three and weld on housing.. [IMG] [IMG]
Added some more bracing to the back half of chassis tubes are made ready to weld in.. [IMG] Got the back brace welded on today before I left. Hope...
Well how I came up with my leaf spring location. First I measured a factory chevy II to get my distance between the holes. And my leafs are off...
I wish!!!!! Sorry guys we been so busy at the shop I haven't really had time to work on it.. And yesterday I went to Ware Shoals to watch Gene...
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