Fresh hone should make it pick up some power.
New ride
- Thread starter Barry Taylor
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Up until the first race last year at Norwalk I hadn’t made a quarter mile pass in my new ride! Car ran real good and handled well going down the track but when it came to the shutdown area it made some goofy moves! Then on to Cedar Falls and their shutdown area had some funky grooves in the track and It was a little worse! So I decided that I couldn’t let either my son or daughter make 1/4 mile runs in the car or sell the car the way that it was so i ordered an S&W frame kit for it! Didn’t get started on it until the first week of Feb. It’s been a little more work than I had planned but it’s starting to come together!
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Impressive Barry……..!!!!!
A lot of work Barry.
No, I’m gonna roll around on the garage floor some more. Still have the floor to replace in the driver passenger areas roughly 26”x 32” ea. side, then it’s cleanup and then I can put Humpty Dumpty back together.
Wow you've been very busy. New frame looks really clean nice work 
Probably ditched a few pounds with that new frame as well!
Probably ditched a few pounds with that new frame as well!
It’s going to be interesting as to how many pounds I’ve shed! The 4 tubular a arms don’t weigh as much as one stock lower a arm!Wow you've been very busy. New frame looks really clean nice work
Wowzers 
That's impressive. All that right off the nose too.
That's impressive. All that right off the nose too.
Got started on the floors yesterday and got the drivers side roughed in! Thought I was gonna do it with one piece but that’s not happening! To many angles! 4 pieces did the trick on the drivers side and will be the same on passenger side. After rough in I’ll finish weld em, primer, paint, and weld em in!
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Ain't nothin easy is there Barry....
Dave, I couldn’t hardly walk this morning after I climbed in and out of that car yesterday welding up the front support bars to the cage and then the dash bar! Then started on the floors!
I feel your pain. As the say....wait until you get to be my age...... 
I'm just in from a fresh overhaul last month.
Clutch, Tranny, friggin headers back in, rear end back together next. Changed 3 anchor points on 4 link.
I'm just in from a fresh overhaul last month.Clutch, Tranny, friggin headers back in, rear end back together next. Changed 3 anchor points on 4 link.
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Hi Barry, and i thought stripping and painting a car was hard work......
It is. What Barry is doing is waaaay more fun than what you're doing. This is Barry's thread though who am I to say....
Dean, what little patch and paint work I did on that mangled firewall convinced me I’m no body man and brings a whole new respect to what you’ve accomplished!
The car had a problem in the front end that I didn’t want to deal with any more! Truth be known Brian it was a good excuse to spend more money and take a little weight off the front end! It’ll also be a little easier to work on!! I’ll get back to you on the weight difference hopefully before the first race at Thompson or whatever it’s called now!