Things are really moving along now. If we can keep throwing 12 hour saturdays at this thing, we should easily have it rolling again in the spring of 2035.

We are making good progress, but as usual, actual work falls somewhat short of ‘I think we can get _____ done today’. Oh well, it’s all good.

What we did get done today:

• Welding table put into some sort of usable shape (Joel has rockstar-like metal acquisition skills)
• Second boxing plate final fit
• Second boxing plate final welding (final in this case is used a bit liberally — we’re going to have plenty of cleanup on the bottoms of the rails)
• Stock Jaguar springs cut down for mockup (plasmazoid to the rescue)
• Jag engine mounts and stock front end mounting points hacked into submission
• Approximate ride height figured out

That last bit was pretty crucial. Without doing that, we really couldn’t move on to finalize the location of the front crossmember, or start figuring out what needs to happen with the back of the frame. As it stands right now, we’re figuring that we’re going to need a pretty tall notch in the back to get things where they need to be. As of right now, the rear end is literally sitting with the lower shock mounts on the garage floor, so it needs to come up a ton to get wheels and tires on it.