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| byndbad914 |
 Feb 13 2006, 05:35 PM
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shoehorn and some butter - it fits  Group: Members Posts: 1,547 Joined: 23-January 06 From: Broomfield, CO Member No.: 5,463 Region Association: None  |
Disassembled the beast over the past couple of weeks in Orange and then AJ (the guy building the tube chassis) did some minor cutting (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/blink.gif) I am getting pretty excited about the project though, should be cool if every crazy idea I have works out... never really know until you start piecing the puzzle together.
All things work on paper, only some things work in reality (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif) If anyone really cares I will continue to post pics as the progress moves along... here is some starting pics. BTW, more pics are on my website in the chassis link I have started. Here is a shot of week1 Attached image(s) 
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Mar 27 2006, 03:48 PM
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shoehorn and some butter - it fits Group: Members Posts: 1,547 Joined: 23-January 06 From: Broomfield, CO Member No.: 5,463 Region Association: None |
Actually I did have them modified a bit when I bought them... here is the description. They are Schoenfeld headers for a SBC sprint car When I got them, they hit the inside mount point ("dog ear") where the stock trailing arm is. Turns out, they gave me some bad info over the phone on dimensions. So, I sent them back and had them cut 1" off the front and 1-1/2" off the rear. You take more off the rear to make them mount parallel - turns out for a sprint car, they angle the end out a bit to follow the frame. Don't want/need that for a 914. Cost me and extra $100 to Schoenfeld for the custom work. In the end though, they are much, much nicer looking than any "shorty with a 180 bend back over the rear axles" setup I have seen on the market. Nice thing about sprinter headers are they have a very short "drop" to them so they go right under the rear axles but don't drag on the ground. You just slip mount 3-1/2" mufflers right over the secondary and they are flush with the back of the car. Kinda loud though open header (depends a bit on engine of course; mine hits pretty hard). The mufflers I have are very high flow and actually do an incredible job of sound reduction to my surprise, so I highly recommend them. A more streetable 350 would probably sound awesome without being insanely loud. |
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byndbad914 starting the tube V8 car Feb 13 2006, 05:35 PM
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