Project Fredybender V2.1 : NA with an attitude for the track by fredybender

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Did a few things chassis wise. Its good to leave engine stuff, and spread efforts around.

Less probable of screwing up... And I guess you can call those "breaks"

Triangulated the rear axle beam with hem joints.

12-9-10

I have just put in my order for the Berg cup type flares, and rear quarter panels.

Merry X-mas present from me, to me! Got them from Precision Motorsports in Ma. Great guy to deal with!

The front fenders are one piece, all fiberglass gel-coated, and the rear quarter panels, start from the bottom of the rear window, all the way to the bottom, and the rear.

I will be doing less body work / repairs, than I thought with those body parts on their way...

Scheduled delivery, a few days before X-mas...

12-12-10

A few updates: 

Next Saturday, the car will be going to get a full 8 point roll cage. I will be bringing my camera...Until then; I had to make it a rolling chassis, so I put back an old set of rear shocks, since one of my rear Bilstein was on back order. I will leave those on there, until the car is painted.

A few things: 

I have finished doing the most of the engine; windage tray, oil pump, intermediate shaft, timing pulleys, water pump, and made a block off plate for the crank sensor hole too. Oil pan is on.

I also doweled the main crank pulley, as I have seen horror stories on the TD cranks with just the keyway slot...

Drilled a hole in the pulley:

Then with a transfer punch, located the hole on the crank

This is the pulley into place. The large washer sits on top of the pressed pin afterwards.

Since I got the whole rear beam into place, I wanted to mock up where the tire would poke to...

Perfect fit for the 3" flares on order!

Mocked up my brakes with the 10.1 Zimmerman's, new calipers, and my 16V carriers I had stashed from my previous build.

Front a arms assembled with the new bushings & ball joints

HD clutch (800lbs), with very light flywheel is assembled without the ACT 6 pucks solid center; I will be bringing it to get balanced tomorrow.

When you install a lot of new parts, you have a lot of boxes to recycle!

I have also started to install my camber plates!

Last but not least, my valve covers... Shaved black wrinkle finish!