Going in Circles- Causin Havoc goes oval Racing - Thunderbird Content

Here we go again, "key rock ballad". After working 2 years straight in camp with only a mere 5 days off of a month I went back to school and had some home time. Then I spent a LOT of time at the track, as a spectator only missing one race night throughout the whole summer. There I got to know the guys at the track a bit better, watched a friend win a championship and from a little "curious" comment on a page group I came upon owning a 1987 Thunderbird street stock car, or whats left of one.

Now it did come with a 1984ish parts car which I dont have photos of but the first task before the neighbours calling me in for junk in the driveway was. Get the parts car nose on it!

Now this build thread will go into a fair amount of detail regarding what I'm planning to build, how I build it, and hopefully will get a following of like-minded circle trackers I can bounce questions off of. At the end of the day though this blog is basically for my enjoyment, its a way of documenting a build for potentially new team members to come in and see what brought the car to this point.

Now currently the photos above were shared via facebook, its not ideal. Hopefully in the next few days I'll decide on what photo sharing site I want to proceed on and I'll get into more details. I've got more detailed photos of the car in its original state, we've gone through built a rear cage, and fuel cell bracket, the front frame is now tied into the main cage, and we've started on the door crash sliders and are starting to move into installing some home-built weight jacks. So there is a lot of content to get through and thats not even including the engine build

Thanks for reading

Davey

As arrived the car was built for the track I going to be racing at however, it hasnt raced in about 12-15 years and then there may have been a slightly different racing class as now. The car appears to have a pre-bent weld in cage kit. It had the RF strut tower modified and leaned right over. The springs were spaced out to generate the corner weights desired. it was in rough shape, some of the welds were a bit questionable but in all, the car was fairly straight.

Work first started in the rear, tying the rear end of the rear subframe into the cage and hanging a fuel cell mount as well. The was all done with scrap 1.75" DOM from the prior owner as well as a bit of new stuff.