thanks for the compliments guys. To answer a question a couple of you had, I started from scratch: 8 feet of 1 1/4" tubing (have extra left over lol), 6 feet of 1" tubing, a square foot of 3/16" steel, and a scrap of angle iron.
I made templates out of paper for the brackets on the strut towers and cut the top of the angle down an inch and rounded all the corners. Once I had all 3 brackets bent and bolted to the car, I cut approximately the length of tubing I needed and just bent, fitted, re-bent, re-fitted, etc... (with a 5 minute walk from the metal shop at the college to the lot where my car was, this got annoying lol)...then tacked it all together on the car thanks to a friend who lent me a portable welder, took it off and finish welded it.
It was a decent amount of work, but it woulda been much easier if I coulda had the car in the shop. I took a few ideas from engine bay photos on stangnet and in 5.0 mag to see how things were supposed to be.
All in all I spent $70 (and about 2 weeks or so of spare time, which is very little time toward the end of the year in college, as I'm sure alot of you know) on the project, with tubing left over
I wish I knew how to weld too. That looks freakin nice man.
but i have no welding skills
