A little progress on a Belly Tank build

Had a bunch of tubing bent, been fitting tubes for a few months now it's tmie to hone my welding skills to start welding on my chassis.

 

Nice!

 

Steve It looks great!! Not sure if you remember me but I bought a tank from you about a year ago. Do you have any more pictures of your cage? Thats the stage I am at as well.

Mike

 

WOW,awesome job!!! I'd love to build one half as nice. Bitchin!!!!!

 

A few updated pictures of the progress on the tank

 

And the rest of the pictures

 

Love it!

 

Wow! very nice work. I'm digging all those brackets, especially the ones wrapped around the rear end. I love how strength equals beauty.

 

VERY NICE!!!!!!!!!!! What head do you plan to run on that block?

 

WOW......this is a very nice Tank, cage looks very strong, lots of detail! Thanks for posting. You have a very nice shop also, almost too clean, just kidding.

 

The head will be a one off flathead built by the engine builder, or a reworked Brumfield head if I can find one.

 

Beautiful work! It looks amazing

 

Damn Steve that's Klean and I'm not just talking about the floor!

 

Awesome job Steve, you have been busy!! I wish I would have had more time to talk with you out at the salt this year, it was just a crazy mad rookie dash for us...the tank is looking KILLER! I know you were possibly talking about doing flathead to start out with, then stepping it up to overhead, which one are ya gonna do? Bonneville '11???

 

Steve, The tank looks great. Me and a few people in Grand Rapids have been talking about building either a bellytank or a roadster for bonneville for awhile. Would it be possible to look at yours sometime? Steve

 

Beautifull!

 

Awsome Work !!

 

Damn, that's nice!

 

Fantastic!

 

Where did you have the tubing bent? And how did you come up with the dimensions for the arc on the long horizontal tubes? And what I mean by that is, how did you tell them "THIS is what I need"?

-Brad

 

But, that upper cage looks to me like it could be peeled off like a ZIT in a roll.............?

 

how 'bout a pic of someone in a fire suit with a helmet on sitting in the cockpit? add in some sfi roll bar padding too.

 

Lookin' REAL good. Any illustrations of the finished project? I see the "Old Crow" lines in there.

 

The tubes were bent with a roller bender and were done off a plywood pattern. The picture shows the plywood pattern, the picture is not very clear the pattern is two halfs.

 

Thanks for your thoughts................. There is still a lot of work to be done on the cage, I don't think the cage will will peel off the front and rear hoops are continuous to the main rails of the chassis. There will also be gussets and and diagonal tubing placed in the key stress points

 

Hmmmmm......................A tracing...........A pattern........

 

Thanks for your thoughts.............I don't have a picture but I have been in and out of the cage with a Helmet on. and do have room for the required SFI approved padding on the roll cage, I just have not installed it at this point. It is a tight fit but I do believe ingress and egress will be satisfactory. If you notice the complete car is held together with hose clamps and if I need to I might move the drivers compartment back a few inches for clearance.As seen in the photos the build stage is a bit of a mach-up there are still decisions to be made before anything is welded.

 

Full sized plywood pattern, tubes were bent in a fab shop with a roll bender

 

very clean looking work! (would love to be your hose clamp supplier)