Well finally getting some progress going on the good ol' SINFULL! I was fight was issues with the rear end and just decided to all together build a whole new one. So this time I went with a fabricated housing from Currie. It's the F9 housing. I decided not to backbrace this housing because it's initial design was for off road trucks so I feel it's be plenty strong.
I also sold the the HR Bar and will now be running the Hellwig rear bar on this car. I feel it's a much better design and more suited for the type of car I am building.
I had some issues with the rear brakes as well. After being garaunteed that the Baer brakes would clear my 15" rims, I went with them on the new rear. Well they didnt fit so I went with the Ford Explorer style brakes from Currie. I also had to clearence them ever so slightly but not as much as I would have had to with the Baer kit.
The car now runs Currie Currectrac lower control arms as well. I didnt really want to caugh up the cash for these but after looking at the design and the way it allows the rear to articulate, I think these are the best control arms on the market. I also needed something that wuld hold up to the power this car makes and the design of the arms is super strong so I am very comfortable with them.
I sent my PTS billet trans into Lonnie (Extreme Automatics) to get one of CK's billet outputs shafts installed as well as a trans brake and some slight changes in the valving. Once I got it back, the output shaft was bad so now Im going to be down for a while on that. Chris sent Lonnie another shaft so I will be taking the trans back out again and meeting Lonnie in Indy in a few weeks.
Once thats back, I'm hoping to get this car started back up again. Then it'll be onto the fuel system.
My goal for the car is to create an all around car. I want this car to handle like its on rails but still rip off a low 9 second pass. With the 15's on, I wanted to give the car the 10.5 drag radial class look. I think I pretty much nailed it! I am really happy the way these 275's widend and flatened out on the 10" wide rims. The 5.5" backspace fits the frame notch perfectly and gives me 1/2" on each side of the wheel. The height seems o be perfect too. I'm prety happy with the end result.
So, after two years of jackstand duty I finally set the car on it's wheels again last night. Here are a few quick pics.