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Figured I would post a build thread. After countless miles in barstow, lucerne, and who knows where else it was time to update the old 11. This car was only raced in the MORE series and has been beaten and punished for years. Here is what it looked like before:



The tear down. Why is destroying things so fun...









Fast forward to taking the body off and started cleaning up for the new pans.









More to come...

The main focus I want on this rebuild is to keep the weight down. Also will be upgrading to the new rear shocks with the 2.5 reservoirs. Here is more of what I have done so far.

The pan was cleaned up and got the lower cage done.











Put the car on its side so i could weld the bottom of the tubes up and plated the rear torsion housing up also.





After that was done I cleaned up the pan even more from old cage mounting points and such and painted underneath and other parts of the pan. Beam was also pulled off and painted. The arms will be painted when I do the balljoints later on. Also got some brake lines run. Here it is ready for the body:

This is gonna be fun to watch. Thanks for sharing.

nice work on the bottum cage welds look nice and clean and tubing is all uniform.cant realy see ur swing arms did you do the beef up on them and if so what gauge metal did you use .im just curiouse because i just did a beef up on mine (i used 11 gauge 1/8 in)

Nice build. What are your plans for post-build? Still racing, and if so, what series?

Nice looking work so far

Thanks For sharing with us

Nice work! I can't wait for more

Chris4747 wrote:nice work on the bottum cage welds look nice and clean and tubing is all uniform.cant realy see ur swing arms did you do the beef up on them and if so what gauge metal did you use .im just curiouse because i just did a beef up on mine (i used 11 gauge 1/8 in)

Yes the rear arms are boxed. We bought a kit for them way back and I believe they are 1/8 also.

kyle_pc_75 wrote:Nice build. What are your plans for post-build? Still racing, and if so, what series?

Still going to be racing MORE. Maybe others also.

Here it is with the body put on. A lot of work to be done still. This is where I am at now and hopefully this weekend get started on the cage or just cleaning up the body.

I see you are putting a "new" body on it.

Nice work.

I wish I could see the pictures. All I get to see is a small box with a small red X in it.

Ol'fogasaurus wrote:I wish I could see the pictures. All I get to see is a small box with a small red X in it.

That is weird. Try this link: https://skydrive.live.com/#cid=D6DD12F4 ... 3F11%21485

Ahhhh, now there is light and the darkness has fallen away. Lookin' good, nice welds and everything.

Lee

What size and brand tires are those?

7.00x15 Hercules (forget what type) but they do not make them anymore I believe.