New chassis with drivetrain installed.

Also made the upper rear shock mounts look much better.

Tunnel has been narrowed.

I have been stripping the chassis of all components, so I can transfer them to the new chassis. I decided to try to improve the turning radius on the new build. The current turning radius is quite large. I am using a Miata power steering rack, which has about 2" of throw in each direction with 2.5 turns of the steering wheel lock-to-lock.

The only way I can determine to increase turning radius is to either find a rack with more throw, or shorten the steering arms on the spindles. Studying pictures of Miata spindles, the steering arms appear to be half as long as my Alfa spindle steering arms.

The good thing is my steering arms can be un-bolted from the spindles. Yesterday I drew a shortened set of arms on auto-cad. Hopefully next week I can have them cut on the waterjet. If they work I will have pics to post next week.

Have not posted in a while. Last week I finished welding up my replacement frame, and helped Josh start on his round tube frame. This weekend I went to the British car show in Lincoln, Russ Amos came with his Lotus 7. Also 2 local builders were there. Our cars drew a lot of attention and questions.

My new chassis, and 442 chassis, tacked together.

Today we designed and built a jig for building the front end assembly. This is probably the trickiest part of the frame to build, due to the compound cuts. With this jig it makes it much easier. Also it allows for both square and round tubing.

Well I have decided that I want to narrow the tunnel in my car. After studying the car and trying to decide what it would take to narrow the tunnel I have decided to build a new chassis. Actually I am gonna cut the steel for my book chassis and a 442 chassis for a friend. I have access to a Tig welder and a very good build table, so next week I am gonna start on a new chassis.

Learning to use AutoCad. Used it to design grille.