Finally making some progress on stiffening up the chassis. Since the floors are cut out, we decided to run a full connector from the front torque box / frame rail to the rear one. The goal here is to make it look like the frames connect to one another and make it appear factory installed. First problem with that idea is the front subframe is offset 4″ from the rear. We decided to add a 4″ jog into the part as shown below. This involves calculating the angle to bend the material, measuring the width of the bandsaw blade, and then making the necessary cuts to get there. Then lots of miles on the TIG to attached everything together again. It is a rather long process in comparison to just notching it out, but looks much cleaner (even though noone will likely notice once installed). Hard to explain what we are doing to connect them to the front or rear, so you’ll have to wait for pictures in the next couple of weeks :). I had to transport them in the snow between buildings on the weekend.. rust does seem to wait too long before appearing. Just need to clean up the welds bottom and sides and then the pieces will look like they were mandrel bent.
