Have you thought about the AIT kit? I have 305s on 18x11 +15 on mine, with custom trailing arms and different offset i think 12" would fit pretty easily



Tony

 

sweet! ^

 

Generally engine stands are punting up a tiny but where the bracket goes into the stand. Are your stands level? If not like most I have seen are you shimming it or modifying it to be a level rotation point?

 

I am going to replace the front caster with a levelling foot. If when mounted the car does not have enough ground clearance to rotate fully I have some 1.5x3" stock - I'll cut the engine stands and weld in a 1' extention to raise it up some more.

 

Well I have the car mounted up to the "rotisserie":








A learning experience for sure. I have not tried rotating it yet, as I want to wait until I have a friend to assist. I can tell that my CG is too high. The thing wants to flop over. I am going to have to raise the mount points/lower the chassis height in the stands. I also modified the stands a bit and added some wider supports to keep the whole thing from falling over.



I am hopefully going to TRF ( http://www.thompsonracingfabrication.com ) in Southern Michigan next week to discuss their involvement in the build. After meeting with TRF I have will decide exactly how much of the cage to do myself and how much to leave to them.

I just sold some land and made a bit of $$ off it. I was planning on using the $$ for the car build, but now I'm thinking it's time to get a new home - something with a few acres and a nice barn/workshop. I'm running out of space here, especially with all my new tools!

 

^ upgrade the house!

 

This is how I see it

 

Rotisserie V1.0 done. The center of gravity is too high, thus the more I spin it the more top heavy it feels and wants to "fall over" or continue rotating. I am going to re-do the chassis mounts to lower the car, then add in a vertical extention to the engine stand. Lower the car 6", raise the engine stand 12" . . . that should get closer to teh COG and also give enough clearance with the ground to let it rotate 360*

 

Pull the windows out and your CG will be lower.

 

I know . . . coming soon. I bought a tool to do it myself but it is a PITA, so I'm going to have a glass shop come and remove them. . . but I can tell I'm probably 100# off, so it's going to take more than just the windows

 

Roof panel, going going gone....Enter Cf roof post bath lol
$1350 for the roof and $1700 to install it lol

 

I saw this and thought of you. It's pointless for a one time use though...

http://www.eastwood.com/resto-rotiss...dercoated.html

 

Yep, looked at that one Probably would have been the same price to buy it and use it, then sell it vs. the time and materials spent to build my own. . .


I spent some more time on the car tonight. Also did a bit of practice for seam/stitch welding, testing different settings:




And I removed the passenger side seat mount. The floor without this is VERY flimsy. Pretty surprising to me. I can see now how a poorly designed race seat mount could rip right out of the floor panel. Going to remove the driver's side tomorrow.

 

I think I missed it somewhere in the thread...Why did you decide to put it on a rotisary?

 

I dunno, seemed like a good idea/project.

Should help with the stitch welding and cage install so you don't have to weld at funny angles.