They're coming tomorrow to start the foundation on my shop that I've been dreaming of having for the last 10 years. Needless to say I'm pretty excited. I haven't touched the fox much, trying to get ready for this massive undertaking.
That said, the gears are already turning for another project. I was debating big wheels/brakes on my current fox, but the more I drive it, the less I want to mess with it. It's so nice to just turn the key and go wherever. It's going to stay covered in the garage and enjoyed on the weekends indefinitely.
So here are the two options I'm considering, based on buying another car:
- Standing mile car
- Road race car
The common denominator:
They would both be built from a gutted POS new edge body, as ugly and cheap as I can find it. Both would be 9.5" deck SBE, carburetor, manual cars built on the cheap. The reason for the new edge is they're already 5 lug/decent brakes and can take a decent size tire with little modification. And they're cheap. Did I mention they're cheap?
Where they diverge:
The mile car would be turbocharged, air to water intercooled, with a ridiculous roll cage. That sht scares me and I have kid(s) so, yeah.
The road race car would be a test project. MM front
suspension. But I'd build and tweak everything from the firewall back. I had been conspiring for a while with an engineer buddy to build a torque arm/PHB system and I never got around to it. So it would be a rolling science experiment.
I'm about to have 1500sf all to myself and the beauty here is that I still have a fox that runs/drives so it (hopefully) eliminates my restlessness to change directions when I get 85% complete and it still doesn't run. You can get a plasma cutter for under $200 now, I still have my TIG, and tubing benders are cheap as well.
Lots of words, no pictures. Hopefully I can change that soon.