Decisions, Decisions

The interesting part of our chassis and suspension design is it will leave the motor choices wide open. The downside is too many options lead to too much indecision. We are evaluation our options while we work on the chassis and the decision will probably be made the good old fashioned grassroots way....whatever we find cheap. What the engine won't be is, as my studebaker friends call it, a "bellybutton" motor. That is a SBC or SBF, like a bellybutton because everyone has one. And no, the Studebaker engine isn't ruled out yet, but we need some measurements on the chassis and more importantly we need to see if it can be saved within the budget, its siezed up right now. :(

Out with the old...
	Time to start pulling out the weed whacker motor to make room for other things. So far things are coming out fairly easy. No engine lift required, I was able to pick it up and pull it out on my own.  Chris stopped by and helped me with removing alot of the old wiring, cables, etc to get the bay cleaned up so we can plan the next phase.

Exhaust mods

Sorry, things are all over the place on the site these days but this seems like as good a place as any. How to you go from a 3" exhaust pipe to a 2 1/4 inch exhaust pipe....not simply it seems.  After playing with all the adapters at the local parts stores and coming up dry I just bought a 3" connector tube and decided to see what we could make. So we focused the mathematical powers of Jim squared and figured the circumference of the 3" was approximately 12.5 inches and the circumference of the 2 1/4 was about 7 inches so we divided the difference by 4 then ignored all that and marked out some approximate pie cuts in the adapter. Then we cut them out and bent everything inward. An end cut of the 2 1/4 and a little welding and it was all done.   Now why did we do this?  Because we got a stainless steel Banks muffler for $20 and it had a 3" inlet.