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'78 Mustang Extreme Make over part Deux (Nov. 24 2022 UPDATE )
Brian Conn:
Thank you, Gentlemen.
.... I don't know if this is the proverbial "a bad penny always turns up" or "the third time is the charm" I guess we'll see.
I'm seeing more and more re-builds and re-works than before, so I figured I'd jump in with mine that had it's humble beginnings as a Snap-Tite Funny Car dragster that I had built somewhere between 1976 and 1978 ...I honestly don't remember but its the closest I can figure.
I put the pictures in order so that they would make some sense now , but chronologically I have left quite few pictures out seeing's as they are no longer relevant to the build....like fighting the issues with the front suspension and front frame section.....changing my mind and going from a front steer G.M type steering to a manual rack and pinion to name a few.
Just when I think that I am done with a particular area of this build , I see something that someone here on the forums has done with their build and I want to give it a try.
Brian Conn:
Well thanks to you David I keep seeing things on your builds that I simply have to give a try on mine ;)
Got a couple Late Model front frame sections poured....was able to graft this one to the existing frame rather easily....over all I'm satisfied with the way it turned out and looks. For once everything measures out where it should be :)
I simply admire what David Bogard and Tom Birky did on a couple of recent dirt Late Model builds with their interiors....so much so that I am going to carefully remove what I have done so far with mine and use David Bogards idea that he did with the Larry Phillips wedge Late Model. There are also some small interior details of Tom Birky's Tom Hearst Dirt Late Model build that I would like to incorporate as well.
I'm not changing the configuration of the interior on this build any, which could come back to haunt me later, but rather trying to enhance what I already have done to it.
Brian Conn:
...Sometimes you have to take a couple of steps back to move forward.....
After 12 years,I had a major AHH HA moment .... took a while but I figured something out.
I have studied what Gator and David Bogard have done with their respective builds utilizing the NASCAR chassis....read and re-read their w.i.p's and how to's....been wanting to do something quite similar.
Here is what I have come to discover....
There is a portion of the build below the floor pan and in front of or behind the fire wall....then there is everything else that you can easily see. The main cage will now be reconstructed into two separate parts....what's visible and everything else, focusing on what's easily visible without having to turn the car over and etc. The two portions wont be attached to each other, but rather give the illusion that the tubing passes thru the floor pan or fire wall. This should give the interior a cleaner appearance and not detract from the builds appearance.
The changes made are not radical as it looks...I carefully removed the main cage and relate etc. from the frame.
Tom Birky:
Wow! Big difference! Much better Brian.
Tb
Brian Conn:
Once I figured out that its everything that you don't see and do see with these particular builds, I concluded that this is how I am going to do these scratch built cages and chassis from now on....it takes a little more effort, but worth it in the end.
Pretty much everything that you don't see or wont ever see because.......
.....the front and rear fire walls and floor pan obscure the view, which...
...make it necessary to build the upper portion of the main cage separate. Nothing is permanently attached, its just sitting in place...I didn't include the door bars on either side because they would not co operate to get their pictures taken. Next, I am going to get it back up on all four corners ,again ::)
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