Post by 65svtfastback on Dec 29, 2011 22:09:56 GMT -6
I decided to build a car to do drag week with along with whatever else it fits into, probably will do some local 275 racing.
The class I am going to run in drag week is the street race small block power adder class. Basically it is a stock suspension class with an 8.50et limit.
I am going with a 1988 Mustang coupe mostly because a friend of mine had an abandoned project he was looking to get rid of.
Here is the car as it was when I got it.
The car came with a chrome moly Wolfe cage in it, but there were some things I did not like about the way it was assembled and it needed some updates due to being 10+ years old. I decided to bascally cut out almost everything there and update it to a 25.5 spec.
I was able to cut the door bars out and cut out the now illeagal 2x2 outriggers and drop the cage through the floor to due some needed welding on the top portions of the cage.
I then installed the new 2x3 outriggers needed to meet the 25.5 spec, and added the 1/8" support plates that were never there.
Next up I reworked the subframe connectors. The car came with through the floor connectors, but they stopped at the front subframe. To be 25.5 they needed to extend all the way to the front, so I cut the factory subframe out and extended the 2x2 rails to the front.
Next up was adding the rocker bars and modifying and reinstalling the door bars.
Added door X
The class I am going to run in drag week is the street race small block power adder class. Basically it is a stock suspension class with an 8.50et limit.
I am going with a 1988 Mustang coupe mostly because a friend of mine had an abandoned project he was looking to get rid of.
Here is the car as it was when I got it.
The car came with a chrome moly Wolfe cage in it, but there were some things I did not like about the way it was assembled and it needed some updates due to being 10+ years old. I decided to bascally cut out almost everything there and update it to a 25.5 spec.
I was able to cut the door bars out and cut out the now illeagal 2x2 outriggers and drop the cage through the floor to due some needed welding on the top portions of the cage.
I then installed the new 2x3 outriggers needed to meet the 25.5 spec, and added the 1/8" support plates that were never there.
Next up I reworked the subframe connectors. The car came with through the floor connectors, but they stopped at the front subframe. To be 25.5 they needed to extend all the way to the front, so I cut the factory subframe out and extended the 2x2 rails to the front.
Next up was adding the rocker bars and modifying and reinstalling the door bars.
Added door X
