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Originally Posted by Bob Denman
He spent a ton and a-half's worth of large bills to get to that point.
The firewall was moved back, the passenger compartment was shortened to the point that the back seat was now the front seat, the track was widened, the headers came out through the front fenders, and the battery and radiator(s) were moved to the trunk.
I don't have any idea what he used for a front suspension: but that was the biggest challenge!
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He probably welded or built a new subframe. Back then, you went to a junkyard and scavenged parts. A big block subframe would have widened the track. The twisting tells me he didn't install subframe connectors or the torque was simply too much for the construction. He probably should have sat the body on a tube frame, used a four link out back and rack and pinion out front with matching springs, shocks, etc. Ladder bars would have worked out too.
There used to be a guy out here - GMTech something - that stuffed a FI 5L in a Saturn. He stopped coming here but that was one hell of a car.
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