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Old 08-31-2011, 10:34 PM
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Let me guess, Renner showed up for a photo op and will be in touch with a small project.
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Old 09-01-2011, 08:09 AM
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But I would leave the sheet metal bolted up and drop the subframe out the bottom. Assemble the other with the motor and headers and roll it back in. I have done a few this way and it is much easier.

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Old 09-01-2011, 10:30 AM
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I've never heard of Pomona valley customs. Did they do good work? Would you go back?
I still need to inspect the frame rails. Howeve,r from the trunk view they did a great job. Yea I would go back. I actually was/am tempted to use them for the TCI parts install too. While I was there they had quite a few cool projects in the shop. A Nova II with a TCI front clip. A Nissan Z with an LS install, some 50's Buick getting bagged and dropped with a C notch in the rear frame rails. A few other cars I didn't ask about.
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But I would leave the sheet metal bolted up and drop the subframe out the bottom. Assemble the other with the motor and headers and roll it back in. I have done a few this way and it is much easier.

Nice progress!
I planned to leave the sheet metal intact. However I'm open to advice on how to do it. I would love to be able to roll the new clip with motor and trans bolted up but am not sure how I'd lift the body high enough to clear it while supporting everything properly? Any ideas? Without the motor it will be easy enough. It's the with motor part that is tougher.
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Let me guess, Renner showed up for a photo op and will be in touch with a small project.
Haha good guess but not what happened. Doug saved my bacon. I originally was going to do the work with just me and my buddy Jason bu after he was 3+ hours late I started get g worried and Doug answered my call for help. Ended up going a lot smoother with 3 people. Well except the part where we dropped the trans down with the shifter and ball still attached...
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I planned to leave the sheet metal intact. However I'm open to advice on how to do it. I would love to be able to roll the new clip with motor and trans bolted up but am not sure how I'd lift the body high enough to clear it while supporting everything properly? Any ideas? Without the motor it will be easy enough. It's the with motor part that is tougher.
Take the front clip off as a unit (the sheet metal). Much easier that way.
Roll the old frame out,roll the new frame in, bolt the front clip back on. No lifting of the body,less chance for accidents or damage and its only a little extra work.
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I planned to leave the sheet metal intact. However I'm open to advice on how to do it. I would love to be able to roll the new clip with motor and trans bolted up but am not sure how I'd lift the body high enough to clear it while supporting everything properly? Any ideas? Without the motor it will be easy enough. It's the with motor part that is tougher.
Get a hold of Scott (XcYZ), thats exactly how he did it. He has a build thread on it also so you may want to dig it up.
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Nice work Chad. I'm sure some of your neighbors are impressed.

You called that a Champ pan.... does Autokraft just "rebadge" them?
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Take the front clip off as a unit (the sheet metal). Much easier that way.
Roll the old frame out,roll the new frame in, bolt the front clip back on. No lifting of the body,less chance for accidents or damage and its only a little extra work.
I will keep this in mind. Due to space limiations it may be easier to keep the clip bolted up to the car so I don't have to find a place to set it for any length of time.

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cool car, and cool updates.
Thanks! Appreciate that.

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Get a hold of Scott (XcYZ), thats exactly how he did it. He has a build thread on it also so you may want to dig it up.
Cool. I will do some searches to see what I can find.

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Nice work Chad. I'm sure some of your neighbors are impressed.

You called that a Champ pan.... does Autokraft just "rebadge" them?
Thanks Dave. Yeah Autokraft and others (such as Prodigy) just rebadges the champ pan. Advantage of buying an autocraft or prodigy pan is ease of ordering and the fact they include the correct pick up and oil filter adapter without making you search for the part numbers and buy them individually (the way Champ sells them).
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