Took a break and went paint balling on Saturday but at least got some work in this weekend....finished removing all the paint from both inside fenders....and welding all the small holes that were drilled to mount various items in the last 30 odd years of ownership.....
did some seam welding.... fender to firewall
I'm taking my inspiration for my "engine bay cage" from one of the cars from the guys from http://www.skidmarkracing.nethere is his tube design/engine bay
Here is my version of his concept....Im calling this Version 1.0
I did not like the way he just "seamwelded" the tubing to the 'shock tower'. I thought I could improve on his idea. This is and old car running really STIFF springs supported by 39 year old spot welds and rusty sheetmetal.
So I decided to construct a 'strut tower' reinforcement box.
Both to strengthen the strut mounting area and to transfer some of the load into the roll cage.
My racing rules state I cannot alter the suspension mounting points. There fore my strut holes are in the same place and I'm not moving the strut mounting point inward like I would like to (to gain more camber). I also would like to raise the strut tower abit to gain suspension travel. But that is also prohibited.
So it is merely a mounting point for the tubes and a reinforcement for the area.
came up with this strut tower reinforcement "box"
more detailed view of the reinforcement box/tube mounting... the black circle represents where the tube will be welded to the 'box'A side view of the design. The most forward tube will reach down and be welded to the frame rail. The 2 triangulated tubes will reach thru the dash and attach to the top dash tube.
I will also weld a "taco gusset" with a nice dimple die to this connection.
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