Very cool looking build. Lots of trick metal work for sure, very well executed fab work.
Some of it is definitely more for looks than anything else though, and for all his talk about old style cars and being a workout to drive, that car should be a piece of cake to drive, rack and coil overs and all. Kinda question why the car is so touchy to steer, there’s no reason for it to be like that if it’s aligned properly and that too should be a piece of cake with the suspension on it. Should be rock solid and smooth, not flighty, especially with 265’s up front.
He talks about building it for a guy, so that probably explains some of the parts choices. Like there are much better brakes than those Wilwoods, but they’re still a big name. Or the drag race oil pan hanging out below the K member on a handling car, some little stuff that doesn’t make sense. Like the chin spoiler, they’re not for deflecting air into the radiator on a build like that, they’re supposed to keep air out from underneath the car to keep the nose down. And there ain’t no way in hell that car will do 185 set up like that, I don’t care what the math on his gear ratio vs rpm’s looks like, the drag from the aero on that car wouldn’t let it get near that.
