Time to get serious with the front end..
Not the best of photo's as someone had put an exhaust in the way, but the front is now welded to the rest of it.. I will put a load more strength in this area but it's one of those jobs best done later when the frame is stipped down (again) and I can turn it upside down.
So I could do some structural slicing the front diff needed to be moved forward and out the way a bit..
Of course two of the Allen Key bolts came undone with only a small fight, the front two refused to budge and eventually got chewed up..
The only way to undo them without grinding the heads off was to weld a bit of bar to the bolt head and hope the heat would free the thread up....
Which it did.
There's no two ways about it, the Quadzilla front strut towers looked ugly, really ugly.. So why not turn it around and make them a feature
With yet more tempoary bracing in place and the top of the towers already mostly wrapped in tube, half the O/S strut tower was cut out!
Cleaning up the welds was not fun as they were very hard!
Fresh tube welded back in to replace the metal I had cut out, and a Nigel holding the rear tube in place..
A close up for you.
And a view from the front and top.... By the time we are finished it will look way better and be much stronger than the original Quadzilla strut towers
Oh..... Much to my and Nigel's suprise I found the Quadzilla gear/transfer box the other day.. Both Nigel and I thought it had long gone!
If I can make it fit in this space, MadTrax will have HI/Low ratios and a reverse.. Well 5 of em