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<blockquote data-quote="fl-krawler" data-source="post: 733268" data-attributes="member: 884"><p>So originally I had all the front tube work planned out, and I intended to run a hood with some sort of built in fender to maintain a resemblance to a jeep. The last time I had a fiberglass hood with built in fenders on a rig, the hood didn't even make it through the first ride before I had pretty much removed both fenders trying to wedge the jeep in places it didn't belong. Somewhere along the lines of dwelling over this for a week or so I decided to add tube fenders to the front of the chassis when I started laying everything out. With tube fenders it altered the original way I was going to do the front tube work. So I started adding tubes</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/mwByqzi.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/452EEFe.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/zid14ps.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/GM8Rgvs.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>By this point the front end was a complete clusterfuck of tubes and I wasn't really happy with it. I also had a few issues with where I mounted the engine was going to make routing the exhaust a bitch, plus I had originally planned to run tube under the oil pan for a skid, which sat the engine high in the chassis. This made the planned seating position a little higher than I wanted. After stewing over it for a week I threw a junk hood and grill I had up on it .</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ShOPySS.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p>I was hoping that the lines would flow a little better with panels on it, but they just were not. I was also drastically different with how the front tube work was done compared to what I had panned and how I have done other chassis in the past. I ended up torching off the majority of work I had done and went back to plan A. </p><p></p><p>Before:</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/4qNO9r5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>After:</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/pFspdlP.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>New tubework in place</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/hxEhcbr.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/sloWRWR.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I still have a few more tubes to add up front, but it is waaaay cleaner and less cluttered now</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/QWmd9N0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/f4WW1Ek.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I also redid the belly crossmembers , moved the engine back 2" and it now sits 2.5" lower in the chassis. There is only a 3/4" difference between the car and truck pan on the 6l80 so I figured for such little difference I may as well run the truck trans and oil pan and hopefully avoid any oiling issues LS engines are known for.. I'll post pics ot the new engine/trans mounts and crossmembers as soon as I get them finished</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fl-krawler, post: 733268, member: 884"] So originally I had all the front tube work planned out, and I intended to run a hood with some sort of built in fender to maintain a resemblance to a jeep. The last time I had a fiberglass hood with built in fenders on a rig, the hood didn't even make it through the first ride before I had pretty much removed both fenders trying to wedge the jeep in places it didn't belong. Somewhere along the lines of dwelling over this for a week or so I decided to add tube fenders to the front of the chassis when I started laying everything out. With tube fenders it altered the original way I was going to do the front tube work. So I started adding tubes [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/mwByqzi.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/452EEFe.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/zid14ps.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/GM8Rgvs.jpg[/IMG] By this point the front end was a complete clusterfuck of tubes and I wasn't really happy with it. I also had a few issues with where I mounted the engine was going to make routing the exhaust a bitch, plus I had originally planned to run tube under the oil pan for a skid, which sat the engine high in the chassis. This made the planned seating position a little higher than I wanted. After stewing over it for a week I threw a junk hood and grill I had up on it . [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/ShOPySS.jpg[/IMG] I was hoping that the lines would flow a little better with panels on it, but they just were not. I was also drastically different with how the front tube work was done compared to what I had panned and how I have done other chassis in the past. I ended up torching off the majority of work I had done and went back to plan A. Before: [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/4qNO9r5.jpg[/IMG] After: [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/pFspdlP.jpg[/IMG] New tubework in place [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/hxEhcbr.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/sloWRWR.jpg[/IMG] I still have a few more tubes to add up front, but it is waaaay cleaner and less cluttered now [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/QWmd9N0.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/f4WW1Ek.jpg[/IMG] I also redid the belly crossmembers , moved the engine back 2" and it now sits 2.5" lower in the chassis. There is only a 3/4" difference between the car and truck pan on the 6l80 so I figured for such little difference I may as well run the truck trans and oil pan and hopefully avoid any oiling issues LS engines are known for.. I'll post pics ot the new engine/trans mounts and crossmembers as soon as I get them finished [/QUOTE]
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