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    1. #21
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      Oct 2008
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      Updated with the completion of the transmission tunnel and the installation of the Be Cool Radiator - https://www.pro-touring.com/threads/...65#post1053265

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    2. #22
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      Fuel cell construction and mini-tubbing has been added: https://www.pro-touring.com/threads/...64#post1053265
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    3. #23
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      Nov 2012
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      love this project, great fab work, very motivating. Are you going to keep the original K member or fabricate a new one?

    4. #24
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      Quote Originally Posted by snopro View Post
      love this project, great fab work, very motivating. Are you going to keep the original K member or fabricate a new one?
      Stock K member. You can see it in the motor mount pics.
      Thanks,

      Kevin Wesley

    5. #25
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      Rear Firewall

      With race cars it is important to make sure that the driver compartment has as many barriers between it and potential dangers as possible. Now that the fuel cell area has been constructed, it was time to fabricate the firewall separating it from the interior of the Dart.









      More pics of the construction of the Rear Firewall here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hotchk...7644882896285/

      Front Firewall

      With all of the trick things we are doing to this '76 Dart, the stock firewall just wouldn't do. We needed to add room to mount the new racing pedal assembly, but we also wanted to clean up the firewalll and get rid of all of the openings that weren't needed.









      More pics of the Firewall Fabrication here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hotchk...7644414263615/

      Floorboard

      What's a Mopar build without a little rust repair? New floorboard panels take care of the old, rusty metal and look cool to boot.


      Last edited by Hotchkis; 05-27-2014 at 03:55 PM.
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    6. #26
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      Jul 2011
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      Quote Originally Posted by Hotchkis View Post
      Rear Firewall

      With race cars it is important to make sure that the driver compartment has as many barriers between it and potential dangers as possible. Now that the fuel cell area has been constructed, it was time to fabricate the firewall separating it from the interior of the Dart.
      I also have an A-body Mopar and I have a question regarding the rear firewall. One the left and right the area above the outer wheel house is still open into the passenger compartment via the C pillar structure. Do you also intend to close off that area somehow? I have been contemplating how to handle that on my car.
      Michael Mosley
      1968 Barracuda
      Plano, TX

      https://www.pro-touring.com/threads/...in-Plano-Texas

    7. #27
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      Quote Originally Posted by mmosley View Post
      I also have an A-body Mopar and I have a question regarding the rear firewall. One the left and right the area above the outer wheel house is still open into the passenger compartment via the C pillar structure. Do you also intend to close off that area somehow? I have been contemplating how to handle that on my car.
      Yes, that will be sealed up when the structure below the rear side windows is closed up. You could also just close up the top of the wheel well and then that would effectively seal off the trunk area also.
      Thanks,

      Kevin Wesley

    8. #28
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      Wonderful fab work and great design. I loved the interview about this hotchkis east on the cars for a living podcast and am really happy to see first hand the quality of work you guys are doing.
      I've got a 1970 Australian Chrysler 2 door (dodge dart) and have done a lot to make it a road-race car but would love to one day develop the car to the level I see here.
      Thanks for posting.
      Hot rodder's recycle, wheres those prius' going when the tree huggers have a new fad.

    9. #29
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      This build has motivated me to just go ahead and cage my junk. Not as "all out" as this setup but im gonna do my best.

    10. #30
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      Very nice and professional fabrication work!
      Henrik

      "Mechanix Menace": An LS7-motivated, chopped, tube framed, and heavily modified 1973 Datsun 240Z

      https://www.pro-touring.com/threads/...73-Datsun-240Z

    11. #31
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      Quote Originally Posted by chevyz240 View Post
      Very nice and professional fabrication work!
      Yes x 100.


      Whats with the backwards threaded thread, though...? Buy that question, I mean the layout of the progress all seems to be refered to in the later page, but shown in the first page.?

    12. #32
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      Sorry we haven't had any updates recently. We got really busy with the Hot Rod Power Tour and the Power Tour Kickoff Party that we hosted out at Hotchkis Performance East. But now that we are back and at it, we've got some more updates on the Dart race car build.

      Racing Pedal Assembly

      We installed a Tilton Firewall Mount Pedal Assembly to take care of the brake and clutch pedals in the Dart. The Tilton unit is super robust and up to the task of the races that the owner of this car has planned. The pedal assembly has built in master cylinders for the clutch as well as separate ones for front and rear brakes, allowing us to precisely dial in brake bias.






      https://www.flickr.com/photos/hotchk...7646442451386/

      Steering Column
      We wanted to have a car that was easy to steer while driving around the pits, on and off of the trailer, and on a tight autocross track but could also have completely manual steering for higher-speed tracks. So we installed a Unisteer Electronic Power Steering system onto an Iditit tilt-wheel column along with a 2:1 steering quickener. We fabricated both the mount for the column on the dash bar as well as the mount for the quickener itself.






      https://www.flickr.com/photos/hotchk...7646085990379/

      Fluid Reservoirs

      Next, we fabricated a mounting bracket for the three Roush fluid reservoirs (Brake, Power Steering, and Clutch) on the engine bay bars.





      https://www.flickr.com/photos/hotchk...7646483745611/

      Bumpers

      For the car's bumpers, we needed something that was going to be lighter than the factory steel bumpers but just as strong. We fabricated a tubular bumper out of 1.25-inch (.083-inch wall) tubing and made it mount to the factory bumper mounts. Then we created a fiberglass bumper from the factory unit and riveted the fiberglass piece to the tubular bumper underneath. We did this for both the front and rear bumpers (though we are only showing the front here).




      https://www.flickr.com/photos/hotchk...7646084847510/

      Interior

      We also started work on the interior paneling and accessories. We created the template for the aluminum panels using paper and cardboard. After creating the templates we then transferred them to the aluminum sheet metal and carefully cut out the pieces before tacking them into place inside the car. We also added two battery boxes to the drive shaft tunnel behind the rear seat. The two batteries will eventually be connected through a BUS switch allowing the driver to switch batteries mid-race should one of the primary one go bad. Finally, we added a hydraulic hand brake lever so that the owner can quickly rotate the car on tight rally stages.






      https://www.flickr.com/photos/hotchk...7646085843329/
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    13. #33
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      Wow!

    14. #34
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      X2 ^ Looking great, cant wait to see a video of this thing in action

    15. #35
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      Quote Originally Posted by 72BBSwinger View Post
      Wow!
      Quote Originally Posted by snopro View Post
      X2 ^ Looking great, cant wait to see a video of this thing in action
      Thanks guys. We can't wait to get this thing ready for its first test drive. It is going to be a monster!
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    16. #36
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      It's alive...



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      Thanks,

      Kevin Wesley

    17. #37
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      Awesome stuff happening just down the street from me!
      Justin Novick
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      "The Sexiest Radiators For The Sexiest Hot Rods"

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    18. #38
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      Oct 2008
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      Santa Fe Springs, CA
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      Hey folks, just dropping to to say that the car went on it's maiden voyage this weekend! A few more ends to tighten up and Kevin should be driving this thing home in a couple weeks!



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    19. #39
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      Awesome!

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