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Reply to "Kitman Speedster progress update"

So here are a couple of pictures of the the door gap and a couple my newly fabricated rear body mounts with cutouts for the exhaust.  I am resigned to trimming the door and I feel sure that will fix that problem.  I may not want to tackle that myself though.  Jury is still out on my rear body mount.  In the pictures you can see how I cut and sleeved the mount that came with the kit and which extended to the very back of the body.  As provided by Kitman there was no way to install it after the body was on the chassis.  It may have been possible to install the mount first and then somehow slide the body over it, but I didn’t have enough willing friends to try that.  Then, I discovered that the exhaust headers on the front of the  engine (relative to the car) were obstructed by the mount.  Back to the drawing board!  The pictures show what I came up with - while not super proud of my welding skills, but I am good with a grinder!.  No matter what, this seems like a lot of weight and leverage on the trans mounting bolts.  I think CMC had a portion of the main (welded) frame extend toward the rear of the car which seems like a far better solution.

I welcome feedback.

Dave

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  • 7EFBBC31-D199-477B-AC88-5E8229CDB6F5: Right door gap
  • 005C307A-303B-41E2-BDA4-31F8EB3381AA: Right door gap again
  • 5D9541BA-2CFF-48C3-B1A5-FA0C1D2348C0: Right rear body mount
  • 428F6F28-6B21-4F2D-AF2B-C1CC558401C0: Left rear body mount
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