I ran into some clearance issues with the radiator. Because I went with a model A cross member (flat) to get it low in the front, there was no room for the bottom hose and the grille sat way too high. So I found a Walker radiator that is 2" shorter then stock. Ironically made for the worst kit car in the world (Street Beast). I had them add the stock brackets and dummy filler neck because I'm running a stock 34 nose. It's a thing of beauty though.


Now originally I was going to run full fenders so the IFS would have worked just fine. Unfortunately the motor mounts will not work with the vega box.

So I have to change the mounts (man I hate doing things twice). I tried all kinds of crazy configurations. Chassis Engineering makes an offset mount but it wasn't offset enough so I tried making my own and just wasn't happy with the results.

I have a buddy that is a mechanical engineer and said what I did would have worked just fine. but I still didn't like it so I picked up a set of welder series motor mounts. The kool thing about these are you can put the gusset off to one side to clear the box. These mounts take up a lot less real estate.