Its 4:20 dude.  And I just finished working on the racer for tonight.  I made some good progress but forgot to take pics in my stupor.  I will try to get some tomorrow but it will be a busy day.

Now that the race is over and I have a little time...the rest of the pics from the slam session build-up.

Front lower shock mounts.

I was replacing my rear 14" bilsteins with new ones and discovered that my old ones had a 2" longer body.  The new ones wouldnt reach the mounts on the roll cage.  So I whipped these extension brackets up.

I thought we would be racing into the night and wanted good lighting.  I didnt get time to put a couple more on the bumper in case I rolled.

The front shocks are all squared away and installed.

The rears too.  I had cables limiting the rear end before.  I upgraded to actual straps but left the cables on for good measure.

Three of my wheels were bent from the last race.  I had new aluminum ones lined up but they needed the centers machined out.  At the last minute my machinist ran into some troubles and couldnt do it.
 They looked like this.


So I used a BFH on them and they looked like this.

Then we built a bunch of other stuff, tire rack, fuel cell hold down, oil storage rack, jack mount, installed a pumper, GPS, and 2 meter Radio.  I dont have pictures of this part because it was the middle of the night and I was high on Monster.
Here is the finished product the minute it rolled out the door.

Although we won the USA 500 race, the truck was in rough shape at the end.  About 125 miles before the finish we overshot a hill with a huge drop on the other side and nose dived into the ground pretty hard.  The alignment was out of wack after that.  We also had broken an engine mount early in the race and the engine was held in by a ratchet strap.  When I went to replace the broken engine mount I discovered why the alignment was so wrong.  Both strut towers and the frame had bent in.  So much that a new engine mount could not be installed.  The frame was just too narrow.  The rear axle also has a slight bow that I am going to ignore for now.  It doesnt seem to be affecting its function and I dont have the time or inclination to fix it.
My roll cage goes through the engine compartment and ties into the strut tower and auxillary shock mount.  you can see in the pics that both sides are bent in.

After 2 seconds of deliberation I came up with an ingenioous plan to straighten the bend using a high lift jack.



I was able to get it pretty straight but it wants to bounce back.  An engine compartment cross bar was in the original plan but I just was never able to get it done.  Now it is a priority, so that will be next.

NICE!

-Eric

Seems like it wouldn't be hard at all to duct tape a dial micrometer to your "frame alignment apparatus"  so after the 15th whack with the BFH you'll know its right where it need to be.

Time to add another brace across the center. 

All done.  Simple and affective, although I will probably have to cut it out when it comes time to change engines.

Looks like you biased the tubes a little passed centerline.

-Eric