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NHRA Super Pro Street Legal Drag Racer

  1. Chassis inverted on the rotisserie ready to bead blast. Now I'll simply roll it outside to blast so I don't make a mess in the shop.

  2. Fitting driver's door to lift-off hinge. Rolled the car outside to cut on the fiberglass and keep the glass dust out of the shop. The shop is...

  3. Also test mounted rear fenders to measure how much has to be cut to fit MT Drag Slicks. The low-growth bias ply 28" diameter drag slicks will grow...

  4. The body was mounted for the 10th time (or is the 12th -- I've lost count) to measure for the door latch mounts this time. This should be the last...

  5. Back on the door hinges and making them fit the new chassis. Modified the FFR hinge on the driver side to make the door lift off. Machined a couple...

  6. Since this is a race car that will be trailered to races I wanted the driver side door to easily lift off and store in the trailer. That makes...

  7. New floorboards are wider and lower than FFR originals; driver's side is 3" lower and passenger side 2" lower. The fuel lines, electrical, and the...

  8. Made a bulge on the driver's side lower firewall to provide room to locate the pedals 5" further forward than the original FFR design.

  9. New lower firewall sections are wider and extend below the frame to attach the belly pan to. The belly pan will be attached to the center section of...

  10. Temp installation of the 18-gallon fuel cell to get measurements for the rear firewall.

  11. Tin utilizes ¼-turn self-ejecting fasteners for easy removal. Chassis must be re-certified every three-years which requires removal of panels to...

  12. Rear bulkhead in.

  13. Fitting the rear floorboards.

  14. Tin Bending -- adding the tin to the chassis from back to front. Fuel pump will have an easily removable cover.

  15. Fitting battery & master cutoff switch. Master switch is a push/pull type and will have linkage running through the body and exiting under the...

  16. Body sets ~1" higher in rear to clear roll cage main hoop rear braces which NHRA requires 30-degrees minimum

  17. Body sets ~1" lower in front

  18. Custom watts link. Since these designs inherently have many single point failure components the system was designed with a safety factor of 10 times...

  19. UCA mount has lots of anti-squat adjustment to really help the rear hook hard.

  20. Adjustable custom offset 3-Link can be adjusted laterally, vertically, and linearly. This allows adjustments of UCA offset, anti-squat, wheelbase, &...

  21. LCA Mount -- the lower control arms are no longer the inefficient triangulated arrangement copied from the Mustang. I fabricated all upper & lower...

  22. The goal from the beginning was to build an old school car to meet current NHRA / SFI standards to comply with NHRA 8.5-Sec 179 MPH specs. This will...

  23. Getting rough dimensions for the door latch mounts. Determining if I can incorporate the original latch brackets or if I have to make new ones. ...

  24. Test fitting door hinges. Due to the compound curves and angles of the roll cage, fabricating mounts to accept the original FFR hinges was the next...

  25. New chassis assembly. A bit more fabricating of brackets & mounting points, then I can move on to the bolt together phase which will go much faster....
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