Our School Project Begins

[putz]

I have been talking to forum member privately as we has struggle to make progress.
My upper classman have something we call Senioritus - a direvitive of lazyness.

Here are some pics.

We have two hoops for the cowl. One is welded to the frame at the firewall and will slip between the flore and firewall.

The second hoop will bolt to and through the floor to brackets welded to the fram. That one will support the passenger door hinges and windshield post. It will be a part of the floor essentially.

Forgot to say also you have a really nice high tech project going on awesome.

 

[EX JUNK]

In the fourth picture that you displayed I did not see any washers on those Heim joints. Washers are needed in case the Heim were to fall apart. At least there would be some sort of contact to allow you to get to the side of the road. The NSRA requires these washers.

Jim

 

[Alfwulf]

On the first pic some of the welds look a little like just surface welds.Might want to check on those just commenting on the safety side.Might want to have welding instructor inspect them.jmo

When we originally built the rear part of the frame including kick ups, we were off by about 1/4" using chains a 2 ton jack we bent across the area of the kick up in the picture 1 full inch beyond what we needed. From my old truck axle bending days I know you have to go beyond because it will spring back.
So I am pretty comfortabe with the welds.

We will not grind any either.

Thanks Gerry! I wish you could help too!

 

[Alfwulf]

In the fourth picture that you displayed I did not see any washers on those Heim joints. Washers are needed in case the Heim were to fall apart. At least there would be some sort of contact to allow you to get to the side of the road. The NSRA requires these washers.

Jim

A closer look at those picture there aren't even bolts holding the joint on. We used A drawing for a design GAB posted. I don't know why I have it labeled T Gordon Radius Rod Mounts.

We started out with 7/8" tubing which we had a sholder cut down to 5/8" the rods rest on that ( shear resistant ) and A good grade 8 bolt with a matching grade 8 washer will be there too.

 

[Ted Brown]

That should be real quick and quiet as well will be interesting to see finished and how well it runs... Hope you can light a fire in those young folks, I saw that you also have a gal involved, great to see Gals interested in cars from the bottom up...

 

[Alfwulf]

That should be real quick and quiet as well :egypt: will be interesting to see finished and how well it runs... Hope you can light a fire in those young folks, I saw that you also have a gal involved, great to see Gals interested in cars from the bottom up...

Thanks Ted. Here are a few more pictures. Fast? I think so...we test ran the motor with just one of 11 batteries. I sounds pretty good spinning up and slowing down. We have the motor and trans connected and hanging in the car. 3 degree down angle toward the rear. Where it is presently sitting in these pictures the bottom of the transmission mount is around 7" from the ground. The rear tires are the correct size and while there are no tires on the wheels I think we have the frame in front close to were it will be with all the weight. We need to hurry up and get the cross member and mount brackets made. Time is running out on this year.

For reference the transmission is a '68 Ford cast iron 3 speed.
Thanks again for everyones advice and help along the way.

Lee