Guys,
I've asked all kinds of questions and you kind folks have answered them. The endeavor is finally showing some progress so I thought I'd start posting some results.
6210 came into my life when it was posted for sale as a chassis and body on eBay ... at a price I could afford. It arrived and the front a-arms were not correct but John Donnelly replaced them as part of the sale.
Then I realized that the chassis paint may have been Imron, but the stuff under it was crap and you could scratch the Imron with your thumb nail. So the entire chassis had to be sand blasted and repainted.
Then it became obvious that the bill of materials specified the wrong steering column for the particular chassis. By this time, I had been retired early when my company was acquired by Dow and some 12,000 of us were sent away. No choice ... lack of funding was going to slow things down. The already acquired Flaming River tilt column was going to get used and that meant cutting it and making custom mounts to fit the cut in the frame. This thing turned out to be a major pain, but hard headedness and the availability of a good shop got the thing apart, cut, the 3 piece mount milled from 7075, and a quick release steering wheel mount installed.
Looked a very long time for the transaxle. Found one on eBay, but the description left me worried. Called the owner and found that the box had been built by Patrick Motor Sports. Got the serial number and checked with Patrick who still has the build sheet. So I got a zero hour box with heavy everything and spray bars for less than a used one. Good deal.
A good builder built the engine, but didn't understand what I meant by a short front end. Engine dyno'd with great numbers. Was I just shattered when it arrived and it became obvious that all of the equipment mounts would have to be replaced ... and my funding was again very limited. Finally got to redoing that stuff. Made the front plate, the stiffeners, the ball bearing idlers, idler mounts, pulleys, alternator mount, and the a/c compressor mount.
Still need to but a keyway in one of the pulleys, engine turn the front plate, and do the final assembly. Hope to have that done this long weekend.
Mounting the transaxle on the engine went without a hitch ... beginning to look like something. More later.
We hope to do the first install in the chassis next week. Surely it should be in before the middle of the month. More pics then.
... and Thanks, Guys (especially Lynn), for all the help!
I've asked all kinds of questions and you kind folks have answered them. The endeavor is finally showing some progress so I thought I'd start posting some results.
6210 came into my life when it was posted for sale as a chassis and body on eBay ... at a price I could afford. It arrived and the front a-arms were not correct but John Donnelly replaced them as part of the sale.
Then I realized that the chassis paint may have been Imron, but the stuff under it was crap and you could scratch the Imron with your thumb nail. So the entire chassis had to be sand blasted and repainted.
Then it became obvious that the bill of materials specified the wrong steering column for the particular chassis. By this time, I had been retired early when my company was acquired by Dow and some 12,000 of us were sent away. No choice ... lack of funding was going to slow things down. The already acquired Flaming River tilt column was going to get used and that meant cutting it and making custom mounts to fit the cut in the frame. This thing turned out to be a major pain, but hard headedness and the availability of a good shop got the thing apart, cut, the 3 piece mount milled from 7075, and a quick release steering wheel mount installed.
Looked a very long time for the transaxle. Found one on eBay, but the description left me worried. Called the owner and found that the box had been built by Patrick Motor Sports. Got the serial number and checked with Patrick who still has the build sheet. So I got a zero hour box with heavy everything and spray bars for less than a used one. Good deal.
A good builder built the engine, but didn't understand what I meant by a short front end. Engine dyno'd with great numbers. Was I just shattered when it arrived and it became obvious that all of the equipment mounts would have to be replaced ... and my funding was again very limited. Finally got to redoing that stuff. Made the front plate, the stiffeners, the ball bearing idlers, idler mounts, pulleys, alternator mount, and the a/c compressor mount.
Still need to but a keyway in one of the pulleys, engine turn the front plate, and do the final assembly. Hope to have that done this long weekend.
Mounting the transaxle on the engine went without a hitch ... beginning to look like something. More later.
We hope to do the first install in the chassis next week. Surely it should be in before the middle of the month. More pics then.
... and Thanks, Guys (especially Lynn), for all the help!
