Waaay Northeast Drag Racing

[Maritime Drag Racing]

A couple of lines in the IHRA rulebook are keeping me awake at night - plus the fact that decent 2 door Cavalier and Sunbird bodies are dirt cheap

SS/GT- Front wheel drive conversion - Reserved for 1980 or later factory production 2 door sedans with production V8 engine of the same make....... Hmmmm......maybe a 350 with a Q-jet and 882 heads?
SUSPENSION: Aftermarket front suspension allowed.(I wonder does that mean my Jegster chassis is legal?)

SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE IT STOP - I NEED MY SLEEP...........

[WildcatOne]

No rest for the wicked

[Maritime Drag Racing]

Borrowed a trailer from my friend Albert to make a trip to Halifax on the weekend. Killing two birds with one stone too as I'll be hauling a 1990's Saturn up to my Brother's place and coming back with the Jegster chassis. Their Saturn slid off an icy road and smashed the front end over a year ago when they were here for a visit.

[WildcatOne]

Nice! Good luck on your trip!

[Maritime Drag Racing]

Finally got the Jegster chassis home - needless to say the trailer felt a lot lighter on the return trip than on the way to my Brother's with his dead Saturn on board. It's got some old Vega control arms and spindles mounted already but will get updated to S-10 spindles, rotors and calipers.



The rest of it rode home either in the back of the truck or the toolbox - all the rollcage tubing, ladder bars and crossmembers, coilovers, and all the brackets and blueprints to put it all together.

[draglist]

Wow, you are moving on this! bp

[Billy Mac]

Be prepared to have the A-pillar down tubes custom bent for this project, Don...It shouldn't take much to get em to follow the contours like you want em. The length of the halo bar should be easy enough to get fitted to the windshield...It prolly goes without saying, but a good tubing notcher will make life SO much easier when fitting the tubes to each other. Keep us posted on how things progress.

[Maritime Drag Racing]

All the tubes have different color paint on one end for the color code diagram below and pre-bent so only notching is required(supposedly). Mind you this is all supposed to fit a Vega which I'm not likely to find anywhere. That means the cage might have to be modified for a newer body unless we can find something that is close in it's general overall shape to a Vega. Anyone have any ideas here? I was thinking maybe a late 1990's Pontiac Sunfire might work.

[Billy Mac]

Don, in the illustration, there is one bar NOT shown that DOES need to be there.....the drivers side outside rocker bar. It wouldn't hurt to have one on the passenger side as well.
Sorry, fresh outta Vega's around these parts

[Maritime Drag Racing]

I would suspect that the lower end of the X-bars in the door opening would connect to those rocker bars. In the drawing they aren't hooked to anything.