Ready for the Lid
It's been a couple weeks since we posted our activity. The lapse in time is partly due to only incremental changes and the start of football practice for Brandon. As you can see in the picture below, the entire chassis with wheels are ready to go. The wheels came in a week or two ago and I had the tires mounted to complete the setup. The tire are 225/50 - 17 which should maximize the contact area on the road to bring some needed performance to this vehicle. I'm kind of glad I didn't go straight to the 480-525 HP create engine in case the transfer of power to the road is minimal. Here you can see we completed the exhaust from the headers to the side pipes which was a added twist to this project. We took the plunge and bought a TIG welder (sprung for the AC/DC unit to do most any metal). This wasn't a planned portion of the project but you can read the bottom section of this post to see what prompted adding this trade to our skill set. We p...