Hope your sitting comfortably as it a long story.
I built The Cunning Plan out of what was a street car, (I ran this on the road from 1989 until 1995 with a Rover V8 and the original steel body.) this had a home made box section chassis with a 3 mm tube roll cage fitted.
I uses Spitfire front and Jag IRS suspension, the front has home made bottom arms which are fully adjustable for caster and camber, while the rear has had plates welded to the hubs and are solid mounted to the chassis (The drive shafts on a Jag act as the top arms, so if you break one, the suspension collapses and this is to stop that.)
I raced it like this for ten years until the end of 2005, they changed the MSA rules and like Brock's Black Pig, it did not conform to the new ones and was relegated to Test & Tune meetings only. (This is my other story, while I could not take part in MSA events as a driver, I was asked if I wanted to become a scrutineer, this I done and will tell you about it in another thread when I have chance.)
I always intended to build a new chassis for the car and when Brock said at the end of last year a friend was selling chassis kits on ebay, I contacted him and ordered a new comp altered chassis. (Brock also designed and had him to make him as well to make Black Pig Too)
For those who don't know, the difference between a slingshot dragster and altered chassis is that in a slingshot you sit behind the axle and a altered in front. I located and bought a Dina rear axle front the Bee Sting crew (This also included the front tube axle and other parts.) I have also been in touch with a gentleman who has a 351 4 bolt Cleveland with C4 box sitting in his garage, which I hope will be sitting in the car when finished.
It was always my intention to either use my old body or a new Mini body for the project, but like many things, I changed my mind.
While I like dragsters, I have never really wanted to build one, I always like something which does look like a car of some sorts, one of my old favourite cars was The Chicken/Crescent Coupe, so when Brock was unhappy with the front end of Black Pig Too, I arranged to have this off him and get a new dragster lower rail made up so I (I am saying "I" but Brock will be doing most of the chassis work) could build a near replica. I have ordered a new Fiat Topolino body off a nice man from North Wales which will be modified to suit.
I am in no real rush to get going on the new car and as Mr & Mrs Brock are trying to get their new cars out the tubes are sitting waiting for all the bits to turn up in the same place.
This was going well until we had the axle down from the north and have found its "HUGE" making Brocks 9 inch look like a Pop axle. this would be OK if it was going to sit behind me, but I am going to have problems with getting my legs over it, also we have found it is nearly 10 inch's too wide, again OK if on a altered like it was intended for but not a dragster/comp coupe. someone was selling a narrowed live Jag axle the other week, but this was 10 inch's too narrow, so it looks like I am going to have to sell the one I have and locate one the right size (37 inch's)
Anyway, that's all for now and below is what I hope to have in about a years time or so.
