JJ’s Class 11 Oval

[John Jones]

#53328

Looking good Pat…  I’m glad your finishing things up for me/ us!!!   I’ve been dreaming about racing almost every night!!    I can’t believe I gotta be racing in 17 days🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼
i watched the MORE virtual track video from you tube yesterday.  A little nervous a lot excited!!!!

Been a wild ride, but it got me here 😎

[Pat K]

#53336

We’re gettin there…..finished templating the firewall this morning.

Fitting Dzus tabs now.

We will build it if it comes.

[Pat K]

#53344

Finished mounting enough Dzus tabs to start fitting panels.

Cut out the pass side section.  Marked and fit the Dzus panel tabs.

Fit like a glove!! Onto the driver side.

 

We will build it if it comes.

[Pat K]

#53351

Trimmed out the drivers side fire wall section yesterday. Fit the panel tabs.

Bit of a dance to get this panel in the car….Stoked on the panel fits!!

We will build it if it comes.

[mtnbus]

#53355

Nice work Pat !

Looks awesome

[Pete]

#53356

Moving right along!  Nice job Pat!

[Dave-co]

#53359

I have been involved with class 11 for 46 years now and signed in to give just a bit of advice, the back of your car is very sparce for bars, not that you need a lot but from what I can see you have no way of supporting your rear horns which will be the very first thing to break if you dont have them. The rules allow the cage to go anywhere yes it does say straps in the rules but that went out in the late 70s. Just trying to help you, my first race was at Riverside in 1975, in what was a brand new 1967 Vw sedan with only a 6 point roll cage, it was also the very first race for class 11. 2 laps into the race the passenger horn broke putting us out. about 6 miles is all it took and we were not the only one to have one break. It is one of the most important supports you can put in your car for longevity. Good luck to you….Dave Hendrickson…Dave-co

 

[Dave-co]

#53360

[Franz]

#53362

Good call Dave. It looks like you have a nice tight cage in your car.👍

We’re building this chassis a little different…trying to keep it as light as possible. Short course bare minimum car. John also decided to keep the stock rear shock mounting….for the smaller shock and lower weight.

 

 

Pat K wrote:

Making the rear trans mount removable this morning.

 

[Dave-co]

#53364

That has to be the best fit firewall I have ever seen in a vw

[Dave-co]

#53365

What you see in mine is all she gets, we will be at the More Glenn Hellen race july 31st good luck to you, may be at the coming More race to help, need anything just ask

[Pat K]

#53366

Dave-co wrote:

That has to be the best fit firewall I have ever seen in a vw

Thank you….Welcome to the site

Any input from someone with such experience is more then welcome.

We will build it if it comes.

[Pat K]

#53368

Added a few more tabs to help keep the panels flapping and rattling around too much…..A couple on each rear quarter, one along the floor, and one on the cage,  13 total…feels lucky!!!!

There was a lot of small bits of manufacturing debris in the fuel cell. Cleaned it out good and installed the Holly mat. 

Repositioned the filler neck towards the pass rear qtr. window and installed the fuel cell.

Fire wall is finished…except for the bead rolling….I leave that for JJ to have fun with.

All of the fab work will be done tomorrow!!!!!!!

We will build it if it comes.

[Scott Sain]

#53370

Franz,

Where did you find the couplers that you posted to make the rear down bars to the frame horns removable? Seems most places are out of them where we are looking.

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[Pat K]

#53372

Found those on eBay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-1-4-Weld-In-Tube-Connectors-Adapter-Roll-Cage-Bungs-095-120-Wall-/264577484275

We will build it if it comes.

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