Thanks Steve. I will be powdercoating the chassis. I gave up on the whole paint thing. I just got off the phone with the MN NHRA inspector and I finally got all my questions answered as far as the certification is concerned ... yay! I will end up sandblasting it first, which will take a negligent amount of material off and then powdercoat it. The inspector said that it is perfectly OK to sandblast it and powdercoat it before I have it inspected. Amazingly enough the allowable margin of error on the wall thickness is a whopping 10%. So All should be good. I just hope that I did not forget anything. The color I am going is one of those vein powdercoats its black/grey-ish ... the name is IronAge.
The transmission in the car will be a TH400. I did not go with a powerglide because I want more than 2 gears
As far as the fuel cell cage is concerned it clears with ample amount of room ... the angle of the pic is kinda weird, so it is hard to tell.
Here are a few more pics I took the other day. This time with rear tires and diff. The whole idea was to make sure the trans tunnel I fabbed up clear the up/down movement of the driveshaft.
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