1969 Falcon Build

[Bradfords_garage]

Howdy folks! Heres the latest on the Falcon project. Thanks Chunger and 454bug for your recent comments and interest!

First off, here's a little sneak peek at the ride height. The track width will be 5" wider than this, so I still have to decide what route I'll take to widen the body.



I got the lower corner of the new rocker TIG'ed and finished. Came out really nice. These photos were taken before I started playing with camera settings so the detail is still lacking a bit. Bear with me.





I ground the corner to a radius with the roloc discs and then finished it off with a DA.


I took all of these measurements before cutting the car apart, but now that I could actually set a tube against the rocker I wanted to double check the length so my kick-ups would line up with the firewall.


Everything looked good, so I started cutting up some tubing, and got the outer rails and the turn-ins tacked onto the frame building table.


Just a few things in place, but I had to set the tire on there, just for kicks, really.


I'm heading out to pick up some more tubing today to make the front kick-ups, k member and rear cross beam. Should start looking like a car again pretty quick here.



Also- I posted this in the suspension section, but I'll ask it here as well- Is there any reason that the engine/trans and pinion can't be set level if their centerline's are the same height? I'm drafting it out and if I go with a dry sump I can get the engine low enough so the crank centerline will match the height of the pinion. Is some degree of tilt preferred? I've read everything I can find on the matter, and they all mention keeping the pinion angle parallel to the engine angle, but no information on whether or not they can just be in-line with each other if possible.

Thanks for watching!

Brad