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Main floor section is about completed. Fabricating vertical pieces FOD the side-pods. I dropped the stock biscuits on to reference engine location. Here you can begin to see the driver tunnel, each side is 19” wide like the original T70 I have the pedal location as far forward as possible here, I’ve had to fab another 080” joggle for cradle clearance. I have the front of the pedal box 4” aft of the rack. Upright pictures. Pedal box will be more like an F1 can with your heels higher than you bottom. I can do anything about it using corvette pieces. European right-Hand drive Cadillac steering rack, same internal length, ratio & it happens to just drop right on the mounts….
I would love to spend a day with you in the garage.
I agree, but at my age it might be pretty hard to keep up! The OP must have been hyper as a child, and still might be as an adult!!! OP-Congratulations on undertaking one of the most, if not the most, ambitious C5 projects I've seen, or heard of!!
I hate seeing old stuff cast-off for junk, this chassis was a proto for something else & cast off. I said, you know…maybe I can take this,…and that,….and maybe that over there & put it all together?…..I’ve build a few cars over the years & wanted something different….
it will be a little rude, crude, and maybe socially unacceptable but it will spark a conversation.
2000lbs, 625hp 422” LS3, it should go okay.
Today’s a new day, let’s do the pedal box. Wa-La, roughed in. Floor is 080”, sides & top are 063”, front is .100” I’ll mount the master cylinders right on it….
Anything you need from the forum, feel free to ask. Guys here have resources and expertise to share and would be glad to support your project.
It seems you intend to track the car, give the brakes selected, and that more than anything else now excites me for this car. Especially since much street use will abuse the long low slung nose.
It means a lot to have everyone’s support, the project has focused more track day oriented as I move forward…I do have it titled & plated for cars-n-coffee if I feel like it I guess. It’s so..low I don’t think my wife can get in & out of it.
As I’m building footbox & instrument panel I’m already thinking of running coolant lines through the fuel bays to help cooling along with tighter packaging…
the more I look the more I see that can be improved.
I’m screwing on skid plates under the nose for protection, it’s only 3.5” off the ground like 2-feet in front of the tires…
Busted out the Kennedy adapter & hardware for everything. Here’s some of the initial views Buddy dropped off a bare block for me to use for mock-ups. Better look at the first step…. 3-solid days of heavy lower cradle modifications including drilling up a .375” 6061 aluminum plate to tie cradle sides together after modifications. Heavily modified area around starter location…
Mid-Engine C5 T-70
