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01-06-2009 #1
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Now, now Ron, it's supposed to be a labor of love LOL.
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01-07-2009 #2
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Hey Ron
I hope you are doing well and can make it back down to RTTH. Not planning on breaking next time and you need to take my car for a few laps around the track.
It appears that you have a set of Speedlines on that thing. I missed a set with a GM spacing a few months ago and have been looking for a set since then. Where did you get them?
01-07-2009 #3
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Hey Payton,I actually got the wheels off Ebay.The guy guy I got them from had 10 sets left at that time,but I would amagine that they are all gone by now.I paid $900 for the set.I turned David Sloan on to them,I think he bought 2 or 3 sets of them,maybe he'd consider getting off a set.Did you get any bites on your car?real bad time to be selling!Ron
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01-07-2009 #4
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Had to pull the belly pan and tail panel off one last time before final welding.Didn't think about the fact that with the belly pan installed and the cars low ride height,it would make it near to impossible to strap the car down on the trailer.So I had to fab some brackets that attach to the frame.The car won't run any bumpers.so it will have tow strap loops in place of the bumper brackets.Should be nice to strap down,I won't even have to crawl under the car.I will do the same in the front.Ron
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01-08-2009 #5
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Tail panel back on and toe hooks fabbed and installed.Hope I never get rear ended,this thing is a truck.Ron
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01-14-2009 #6
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Thats not the battery "box" on the out side of the frame rail is it? Seems like its awfully exposed, not in the dirt and gravel sense, but in the collision sense.
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01-15-2009 #7
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From that picture it does look pretty fragile.Once the C channel that goes across the back of the car is in place and all the rest of the sheet metal is installed,its pretty well protected.And its right where you you want that weight,low and to the back.Look where the battery is on a Camaro from the factory,right out on the nose,more likely to see carnage there,then glued to the side of 2x4 .125 wall tubing.That is alot of heavy metal to bend ,I'm not remotely scared.Ron
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