Thread: A little frame help please

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Well, you're gonna end up doing the front too, so I'm thinkin' I'd probably start with the complete frame instead of cobbling up something to tie together.

After having done so many of these through the years, I try to figure out how I'm gonna sell it before I ever strike an arc. In other words, how can I make it desireable to the guy who is thinkin' of buying it? If I were gonna sell your project, I'd rather be able to talk about how the car was built on a one-piece fabricated frame with everything perfectly lined up than to talk about how it was back-halved and front-halved and the subsequent possibility for error. See what I mean? You may be thinkin' to yourself that the day will never come when you will have to sell this car, but I would caution you to never say never!!!!!

You guys should also be thinkin' at this point what you ultimately want to do with the car. You can use a mild steel cage with the Auto-Weld frame down to 8.50 1/4 mile elapsed time, but to go 8.49 or quicker will require a complete SFI-legal frame structure. And don't say the car will never go 8.49, 'cause with a blower it most certainly could, depending on how the rest of the car is set up of course.
http://www.swracecars.com/pdf/CATpg21.PDF

You might want to follow along on pro70z28's build.....
http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/t6440-15&pagenumber=1
He's building to an SFI spec....