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    Getting started

    I found my front tube, 2"x 0.187" x 24", $43 from getmetals.com.
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    Getting started

    Everyone says to buy the body first, but I probably won't ever have $400 at any given second, let alone money for shipping, so I'm going to go ahead and cut my steel per Youngster's plans. I bought cutting discs for my angle grinder. I have a bare LSx block and a RWD 4L80E, so that's what I'll...
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    IFS $160!

    Thanks to IslandGirl for the vid. I can, and want to, fabricate my own tubular arms. Not that I could afford to have them chromed. The difficulty is threefold. I'm not in a proper shop, with days of free time, I couldn't live with a geometry that doesn't give good anti-dive and good gain of...
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    Birth of Long John

    I created my own rear suspension in the '83 RX7 I completely redid, and it used a 3 link, like the 2005-2012 Mustang. Having multiple upper bars coming together will have the exact same effect, unless it binds. The snag is that both the Mustangs and mine required a panhard bar, and I shortened...
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    Getting started

    I've decided to make 60* cuts for the kickup, a but of layout on cardboard with tools shows that on a 3" beam you lose or gain 1.75". I'll be hiding my reinforcements inside each joint, using the drill and rosette weld method.
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    IFS $160!

    This idea has 2 flaws I just learned. One, the Astro track width is 10.6" beyond the S10, and two, the Astro steering box angle would be ugly at best. I know a place that should be willing to torch the IFS out of an S10 for me.
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    Getting started

    Got my rectangular steel.
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    , Use Ford 8.8 rear end housing in 1923 frame

    If that's a '78-'81 Camaro 8.5" 10-bolt, then it's valuable, those have become scarce. Rear discs are worth having, but the Explorer style uses micro-drums instead of levered calipers. That's why I used '75 or '76 Eldorado rear calipers on redrilled Corvette rotors for the rear of the last...
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    Ford Motor Mount Location

    Why wouldn't you move the engine forward 1/2" instead? That would keep the CG lower, which helps everything. Do those mounts have any interlock feature?
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    The naked chassis thread.

    Why? The rear c-channel framerails on my 2006 GMC C1500 are only 0.106", so a 0.120" rectangle is more than twice as strong vertically, and slightly stronger horizontally.
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    Getting started

    They call it farmer's rod, it works ok on everything, it's reasonably easy to start an arc with, even on rusty potmetal, and I've found that trimming it down to 2" lengths makes initial tacking easier, especially if having to hold the work instead of the electrode. I got the 3/32" for exhaust...
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    , Use Ford 8.8 rear end housing in 1923 frame

    The above references the '86-'98 Mustang housing and the '86-'93 Mustang shafts. The '92 Ranger 4.0 had the narrowest, lightest-weight 8.8 housing of all. It's rare but not weak.
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    Ford Motor Mount Location

    Wouldn't that depend on which mounts you want? It's easy to Google how far from the bellhousing face the SBC mount holes are, I've seen the same diagrams for the SBF Windsors. Or are you going off the front of the block? That gives more header clearance.
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    Getting started

    I now have funding for my 20' stick of rectangular, and cash for cutting discs for my angle grinder, and 3/32" 6011 electrodes for my welder. No responses to my emails for the 3" tube.
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    , Use Ford 8.8 rear end housing in 1923 frame

    I've done an '01 Mustang 8.8 to an '86 Camaro, and I've done the Explorer 8.8 to an '86 S-10. The Explorer housing is at least 50# heavier, and for what? Guys push stock-housing, un-trussed Mustang housings into the 9s at the dragstrip in 3000# cars, way heavier than any t bucket. The Explorer...
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    Is GM's LS V8 not a thing here?

    No arguing about the cubic inches, 511 is the current limit, but you can get the LS to 800 HP cheaper, easier, more reliably, more driveably, more fuel-efficiently, and more smog-friendly than any big block, with heads that flow 450 cfm, which are less money than comparably-flowing big block...
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    Rear tire size

    The first problem is that you hafta buy 32" tires to get the loaded radius you calculated for. The second problem is that 3.25 gears are only right for 275/60R15s if you're running a 700R-4 with a mild 350, or a built 200-4R with a mild 396-406.
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    Is GM's LS V8 not a thing here?

    In 3 pages of this engine subforum, going back more than a year, not one mention of the mighty LS that's taking over the world of cheap speed. I know alot of you prefer flatheads, or live somewhere that doesn't care about emissions, but if I first register mine in SLC in 2020 I have to use a...
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    Body shopping

    I married an excellent chef, whom I can't reach around her waist, and I'm hoping to use VW Jetta bucket seats, and I'm 6'2, so after checking out all 3 websites, I'm leaning toward Ron's BigBoy. I'll be reading every relevant thread here over the next few days.
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    Plan submission for advice

    Great input, thanks! I've done a 700R-4 using a B&M kit, before I started it had only first and reverse, afterward it had all gears. It seems most of the remaining 200-4Rs are in Caprices, which is fine with me, hopefully they got less abuse from granny or grandpa. I agree with the visual...

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