So no tubing showed up this morning, had to find something else to do. Hey, I need to block off the rear deck and the firewall. Damn rulebook.
Start with a peice of metal. This time aluminum. I love this little cutter.
Made a couple of them then just copied it over to the peice.
Then cut some out for the firewall. A couple clinko's to holed them in.
Then time to install. Used just some regular high temp silicon, then added some weights to hold them in place.
Then for the fronts, used some Devcon, which is like jb weld, just 100 times stronger.
Heres the installed pics. Figured if they are installed now, then they will be coated the same color.
Then since I was at the back of the car, I also wanted to make a jacking point cause I know this thing will be too low for me to get a jack under it and lift it up. Originally the design would have been some steel tubing and connected to the rear frame rails, but looking at the rear bumper reinforment gave me an idea. Why add more tubes to this thing when that original aluminum peice is pretty strong already. So there was this aluminum jack that was broken, took the handle off it and cut about 7 inches off, and fired up the tig. This is after welding.
And it back installed on the chassis.
It will probably get trimed once the body kit gets on. Idealy would be just under the kit.