"Rookie-Touring" '69 Dart
You know, I'm learning that fabricating, designing, building, and welding takes a lot longer than I expected. Example, we built my lower control arms today and I expected 2-3 hours total, 5 hours later I have 2 LCA's. Fitment, measuring, checking, double/triple/quadruple checking, tweaking, etc, takes a whole lot of time. On top of it, I'm still new to welding, fabricating, and building. Still, I have plenty of time to get to where I want to before I leave (praying for it anyway).
That brings us to today's progress. Unfortunately no pics, but I got the LCA's finished and spent the evening getting the front suspension reset with the revised geometry. I'll have it finished up in the morning and will be ready to install on the chassis once I have the chassis in the car. For now, the chassis is as far as I can take it until it's in the car. Everything else is contingent on getting it in the car and getting the suspension mounted. Unfortunately getting the chassis in the car is contingent on the delivery of my new inner rocker panels. Those were ordered 3 weeks ago and should have been here 1 week ago but will finally arrive tomorrow afternoon. I hope to have the chassis in the car this weekend, get the suspension mounted next week and get the car off the table next week. We'll see...
Here is the plan for the inner rockers. the green is the existing rocker, the red is the new panel, and the silver is the 2x4 perimeter frame rail.
As for weight, I don't know yet but I'm hoping to be in the ballpark of 3200 lbs.
You know, I'm learning that fabricating, designing, building, and welding takes a lot longer than I expected. Example, we built my lower control arms today and I expected 2-3 hours total, 5 hours later I have 2 LCA's. Fitment, measuring, checking, double/triple/quadruple checking, tweaking, etc, takes a whole lot of time. On top of it, I'm still new to welding, fabricating, and building. Still, I have plenty of time to get to where I want to before I leave (praying for it anyway).
That brings us to today's progress. Unfortunately no pics, but I got the LCA's finished and spent the evening getting the front suspension reset with the revised geometry. I'll have it finished up in the morning and will be ready to install on the chassis once I have the chassis in the car. For now, the chassis is as far as I can take it until it's in the car. Everything else is contingent on getting it in the car and getting the suspension mounted. Unfortunately getting the chassis in the car is contingent on the delivery of my new inner rocker panels. Those were ordered 3 weeks ago and should have been here 1 week ago but will finally arrive tomorrow afternoon. I hope to have the chassis in the car this weekend, get the suspension mounted next week and get the car off the table next week. We'll see...
Here is the plan for the inner rockers. the green is the existing rocker, the red is the new panel, and the silver is the 2x4 perimeter frame rail.
As for weight, I don't know yet but I'm hoping to be in the ballpark of 3200 lbs.