Finally get to pretend I am one of the cool kids - Holley kit swap
Guess who learned he needs to slow down and pay more attention last night?
Tacked the bottom crossmember together backwards :BangHead:. I've spent some time thinking about fixes so that doesn't happen to someone else, but seems like they all have drawbacks so not sure what if anything I will change yet.
Fortunately got it cut apart and was able to tack it back together correctly.
Even got the mount tacked on. Had the welder out and plugged in, so why not.
Well, why not was because I haven't drilled the inner holes in the original crossmember yet. The new parts are setup to kind of float around the outer holes until the inner holes are drilled. The smart move is to get those drilled and everything kind of locked down, maybe even go so far as to weld the upper crossmember in solid, before tacking the mount to the lower crossmember. Ugh. So now I have to decide if I am going to just try and get it all fitted up and the mount lined up again and drill the holes, or am I going to cut the tacks on the mounts.
This issue adds to the idea that I shouldn't fix the mount location and that it should be located and tacked when it is in the car.
Here is the upper crossmember tacked and in situ.
I've got some design changes to do there as well, but just minor tweaks. The slots on the upper part are off about 0.08" which made it a bit of a pain to finish one end, so I think I am going to dump that feature entirely and tweak the lengths. And I am going to add a mark to one end of the vertical parts to make it easier to make sure that plate is oriented correctly. But overall that part went well enough.
Guess who learned he needs to slow down and pay more attention last night?
Tacked the bottom crossmember together backwards :BangHead:. I've spent some time thinking about fixes so that doesn't happen to someone else, but seems like they all have drawbacks so not sure what if anything I will change yet.
Fortunately got it cut apart and was able to tack it back together correctly.
Even got the mount tacked on. Had the welder out and plugged in, so why not.
Well, why not was because I haven't drilled the inner holes in the original crossmember yet. The new parts are setup to kind of float around the outer holes until the inner holes are drilled. The smart move is to get those drilled and everything kind of locked down, maybe even go so far as to weld the upper crossmember in solid, before tacking the mount to the lower crossmember. Ugh. So now I have to decide if I am going to just try and get it all fitted up and the mount lined up again and drill the holes, or am I going to cut the tacks on the mounts.
This issue adds to the idea that I shouldn't fix the mount location and that it should be located and tacked when it is in the car.
Here is the upper crossmember tacked and in situ.
I've got some design changes to do there as well, but just minor tweaks. The slots on the upper part are off about 0.08" which made it a bit of a pain to finish one end, so I think I am going to dump that feature entirely and tweak the lengths. And I am going to add a mark to one end of the vertical parts to make it easier to make sure that plate is oriented correctly. But overall that part went well enough.