OK all done travelling and able to sit and relax for a minute.
As I said earlier, it seems like a very solid body and looks well made from what I could get access to. A lot of base equipment to get things moving for sure.
Frame is the one area that I would ensure everyone knows so they are well informed
- Frame is, of course a Fiero
- It looks to extended to proper length as the wheel fit in the wheel wells at the same spots. They were off centre because the body non the frame backwards. Nope no answer as to why....
- Frame was cut and roof cut off without reinforcing. That needs to be explored
- Looks to me that the rear section was extended but looks like upper frame rail is angle iron. There is also the diagonal 1x3" tube from the rocker rear to the upper frame rail
- There is no reinforcing in the cockpit area or the rockers front to rear so there will be some flex issues in my opinion
- Again, my opinion from experience setting up and cutting a Fiero frame correctly and not correctly....
- The best approach would be to pull everything out of the frame, body off, suspension off etc. and set up the frame on a level platform to be able to set up correct measurements. Start taking measurements end to end and in the cockpit area to make sure the frame straight or know what needs to be adjusted to make it straight
- Once leveled, start the reinforcing through the rockers front to back and then across the frame per well known methods.
Still saying this is a great start to a project and 99.9% of the world won't know it doesn't have correct air vents or slightly different wheel wells etc.
I have to go again bow but will figure out getting a link to the pics for everyone rather than filling up the site file repository
Cheers
Don