Drag Week

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We haven't welded it up yet, but intend on fabricating attachment fitting to rear frame rail for "wishbone" hitch unit. Light unit (trailer and load be 500-700 lbs). Want ability to take off hitch unit if we need for car's weight balance and/or total weight mgmt. Then also have it if need weight added.

May be month + before we get to that. Lol
 
I'm going to build a hitch....but that's a few months away, first I need to change the quarter panels on the car, build the trailer, the hitch will get done about 2 days before Drag week....say September 4 or 5th...
 
Today's small victory... got the rear tires mounted. 275 Mickeys look good on the old 10" auto drags

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Walker434 said:
You bringing street tires also or just going to run the drag radials?
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Most likely to run these cop wheels on the front and some kind of tall rear tires on the back on steel wheels.... unless I get motivated enough to stick a gear vendors over drive in it....

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This is no Bull .... between dirt and bondo I bet I will drop 50lbs changing the panels.
 
Well after 6 weeks the quarter panels finally made it yesterday....

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If they had not shown up in another week I was going to switch to a different car ....
 
67autocross said:
If they had not shown up in another week I was going to switch to a different car ....
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Understand. Every build I do or am involved in ... I think I'm being conservative in time estimates (and money lol) and its usually double. Lol
 
One panel welded on, these are paper thin made in Taiwan skins , not even close to an AMD in quality.

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Looks like you are making progress. I'm going to the track tonight to do some more tuning on mine.
 
I just want it to run good... not to concerned with performance, there will be a lot of faster cars in my class

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Panel number 2 installed....about 4 hours of seam sealing and such and I will be on to the power train install

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Buschi340 said:
a) i am sooooo jealous!
b) i Need a Trailer hitch. Can you guys Show me what you got?
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Here's the hitch. Dave (guy at shop working on it) found it off car in junkyard (think a mini van ... lol ). Using small trailer of course - like one I posted from Lowes

It bolts up to end of the frame rails ( 3rd photo) and through rear to where bumper bolts - via a piece welded to hitch bar above where it's bolted to frame rail (2nd photo) So each side has 3 attachments points - two for load and one to prevent torquing.

Hitch extension & ball come out where license plate is. We'll put plate on one of those old school hinges. (1st pic).
 
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