Return of a Big Hitter.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Jun 17, 15 1:34 pm

Dave81 wrote:Looking good Pete!
Is it just the Superbee at the NATS this year then or is the Dart coming too?

Thanks Dave, Julie and her friend Andrea will be in the Bee at the Nats - I will probably be relegated to the Van with all the Race spares as usual.....

Hats off to all Pete Smith's hard work

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Jun 17, 15 1:37 pm

RobTwin wrote: ....Keep up Dave, the Dart is long gone.....

(I cant keep up either )

How do you know that another one did not turn up?

MrNorm · Post by **MrNorm** » Wed Jun 17, 15 1:56 pm

Lovely work, car will be great!!

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Jun 17, 15 1:57 pm

In terms of the cage, the final touches were the Swing-out Door bars.

The Challenger internal "door cards" (They are BIG plastic one-piece mouldings...) do intrude a lot so access to the door release and window winder are always a bit of a "Challenge"....

..Also as Julie may drive this car (she won't go near the Altered) I wanted to make it as user friendly as possible....

Pete worked his magic on the door bars accordingly...

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Jun 17, 15 2:03 pm

Final pictures of the Door Bars:

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Jun 17, 15 2:06 pm

Sincere thanks to Pete Smith at Chassis Tech Racecars for all his efforts, talent and Enthusiasm:

http://www.chassistecracecars.com/

Next Job: Rear Caltracs, Split mono-leafs, Sliders...... Dana Axle.....Truss at the ready....what? With my bad back???

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Jun 17, 15 2:29 pm

Interestingly, at the Brand Hatch Speedfest event, I got talking to a young lad with an early Ford Falcon 'Ute / Pickup.

It turned out that his family owned the Challenger before Duncan had it and raced it ("Beat on it" ) for many years prior to the car changing hands.

It's a small world.....

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Wed Jun 17, 15 4:26 pm

Nicely done, at least he didn't have to sink them into the inner wings as well, had to do that on mine for tyre clearance. Trying to work in so many planes at once is both time consuming and brain ache!

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Jun 17, 15 5:01 pm

I quite agree - I think you have a little bit more room to play with on an "E" Body than an "A" with tall tyres.

Thanks also to Dave Billadeau who showed me the 'Bird before he sold it and advised me what the options were for the front end bracing.

A lot of work in there and Relatively Expensive and I hope worth it....almost a tube car now

db · Post by db » Wed Jun 17, 15 6:52 pm

Lovely work Pete, a well thought out and constructed cage is a thing of beauty.

jerry · Post by **jerry** » Wed Jun 17, 15 7:52 pm

Very nice fab, welding & attention to detail

Jerry II

Pete.S · Post by **Pete.S** » Thu Jun 18, 15 12:26 am

Your more than welcome Pete.

Was done in one hit on the front frame rail to cage connectors with no templates

But as blue says, once you have factored in bend start and end points/bend offsets/center line radius and bend rotation when you have more than one bend on a single tube its a total brain ache, but does get easier as the years go on....

Pete, i was talking to Tom (Atkinson) the other day aswell about the car, they run the blue tina estate in S/Pro, very nice people.

cadboy · Post by **cadboy** » Thu Jun 18, 15 6:22 am

Fantastic work and a great job, it is gone look amazing.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Thu Jun 25, 15 7:43 pm

Well, got a call from Hauser Racing today:

All the Caltracs set up has arrived, so I need to go and pick that little lot up and probably sell body parts to cover the tab......................

GJUK · Post by **GJUK** » Fri Jul 17, 15 12:15 pm

That is one sexy looking car there