91 Galant VR4

[turbotalon1g]

I like the square stuff, but some noob questions for you.

The square stuff is for support to the body pieces and mounting right? And where it mounts to the (round tubing) frame is where the strength is?

Looks good man.

[Pushit2.0]

Yes this is a frame to hold the fenders, hood, front bumper cover, grill, and lights onto the chassis. The chrome moly round tube is the main frame that the suspension, engine, tranny, water to air heat exchanger, and radiator will be mounted. I wanted the square stock to use the flat surfaces to make it easier to mount things and the joints are easier to lay out, just cut and weld no notching needed. I decided to re-do the lower mounts for strength, I did not think the small thin gauge tube would hold up at 160+mph. I bought about 20lbs of aluminum to make all this, and it looks like I will use about 15lbs or so.

~John

[turbotalon1g]

Cool, that all makes perfect sense to me.

I can't wait to see this thing roll.

[Pushit2.0]

Here it is, removable fender/frame assembly.



This is the first stage of removal and about half way threw the install of the front clip. I will modify the fire wall mounts so that with a second set of hands the front clip can be removed with or with out the hood on and the front wheels on and the car with it on the ground by only removing 4 pins. All this to make it easier to work on of course.



Here it is pushed in to the correct depth.



Here are the front slip connections, these are fabricated out of 1/8" mild steel and will be fully welded to the frame when completed.



The other side bracket



I think the brackets are strong, yes this is me standing on the front core support.





Never mind, I think I might have made this structure a little to strong, this is a floor jack with a 0-600 PSI gauge on top, and it only takes about 520lbs to lift the entire front end of the car right now, so I do not need to worry much about this setup flying off the front of the car anytime soon. I thought I would just see how much pressure it could handle before it started to bend or something. Now I just need to make the front bumper cover mounts, front grill mounts, head lights/turn signal mounts, then finish weld and start to paint stuff.

~John

[tehehodi]

Wow, looking amazing! Nice work

[Swifty1638]

I like! When's the motor going back in? You have the rest of the cage to finish too? Is the hood, bumper and fenders all going to be 1 piece?

[turbotalon1g]

Put hinges on the front, to go a little old school and raise your pimp status!!


That shit is crazy strong, good work.

[LingLing]

That's some amazing fabrication! I love the fact that you can remove your entire front end in one piece lol

[Pushit2.0]

Originally Posted by Swifty1638

I like! When's the motor going back in? You have the rest of the cage to finish too? Is the hood, bumper and fenders all going to be 1 piece?

I could multi quote but this is easier. Yes the bumper, fenders, grill and head lights will be 1 piece, then the hood will be held on by 4 hood pins, which could be left on for front end removal or pulled for spark plug changes and what not.

The cage is all done, minus the pass side door bar.

~John

[Matt D.]

Haha John, proving that what you build is strong enough. Very nice.

[Pushit2.0]

The reason I was showing that is there are no rules or regulations for the front of the car. All of the NHRA and IHRA rules are made to save the driver, so figuring out how to make a tubular front end and a removable front clip is a little of a stab in the dark for me. I am lacking the needed engineering degree to know what will work so I am over building the front end. I have looked at few door slammer cars and a full tube chassis car build to come up with my cars front end design.

I did get the front bumper cover mounted up tonight, here are a few pics.








~John

[Matt D.]

Very nice. What are you going to do about filling the headlight areas?

[goodhart]

Did you ever dyno the engine?

[Pushit2.0]

No engine dyno yet, it has been tied up with other projects for the last 2 months.

[turbotalon1g]

Hey, that looks like a galant!
Nice work man.
U still gonna engine dyno before it goes in?

[Pushit2.0]

I still plan torun the engine on the engine dyno, but I will not loose sleep over it if I have to chassis dyno the thing.

As for the holes I plan on putting in some driving lights mounted with sheet metal. Depending on what I get there may be 2 per side. I also plan on putting in the corner lights again and I want to have working turn signals. Then I will run all the wires for the front end threw 1 connector that will be easy to disconnect for front end removal.

~John

[TkrPerformance]

looking really good

If you still need to use the tial 38's just let me know

[Pushit2.0]

With the front clip done until I get a hood I moved the car forward and started to cut up the rear end of the car. So far I have found about 80lbs to remove. The rear doors are gutted minus the crash bar and the door handles to open it. The glass is held up by a bracket that is bolted to the crash bar. The trunk area is cut up and I bought some thin aluminum sheet to rivet in to cover the new holes. I will remount the fuel cell and make the trunk lid as light as possible and will be held on with 4 pins vs the latch and hinge setup. Then after the rear bumper is re mounted I will weigh the rolling chassis in its more complete state to see how heavy it is.

~John

[turbotalon1g]

Nice, that schneidermans place scale sucks, but as I type this I realize that you still might have the corner scales.

[Goat Blower]

Nice work John. I especially love tig'd aluminum, delicious.