Thread: The Beast ***56K warning***

Good luck Matt, just keep us updated, I like how you just jump right in and do things yourself on your race car.

Haha, you're nuts. But that is awesome.

You should have seen my moms face yesterday.... she didnt realieze what I had done at first, and then looked at it, turned white, and said oh, and walked back out of the garage haha...

It will be fine once I put it back on, but its gonna be a process to get it there.

Bondo time! Can't remember if you said, did you just buy a kit for the cage or have it bent?

I don't have a new cage yet for it... I am debating on buying a bender and a nice notcher and making it my self versus buying a wolfe cage.

And no bondo will be needed... I will simply weld the top back on and put the trim pieces on and put lexan back in it, and nobody will know that I had the roof off.

You sir are nuts! Nice project, I can't wait to see how it turns out.

25.3 isn't a whole lot more work than 25.5 so thats what it'll end up as.

Been building a solid works sketch of the chassis but it's gonna take a while.

You gonna have it ready to run for this summer?

If it runs this summer it will most likey have a stock 302 in it. Or if I find 15 grand somewhere itll be with the dart block setup I'm gonna build haha.

I prolly. Won't even finish the chassis til mid June/July.

Where the plates are, it will be a bolted flange with 4 bolts per side... just didn't show that in the drawing. I am still learning solidworks, this is my first big project on it, every other time its been build something super simple. So not everything is perfect but it will be a good model of what I am going to be building. All bends have been "bent" with a 6.5" radius as thats what a standard die is too.