Frame Rail arrival & inspection

Frame Rails, working with frame fixture, measuring, welding

Boxing Frame Rails

Installing Crossmembers

Front Spring
C Notches

Bob rear
frame rails

U-Coat It

Assemble Frt Suspension

Installing Ladder bars - Rear end

Sandblasting & Powder Coating

Sponsor Sign & Chassis

04 Ladder Bar

Install Engine & Trans

IN 600 Street Induction Product

Steel Tubing Structure

Installing Windshield

Mounting Rats Glass Body to Chassis

Mounting Radiator, Grill Shell & Insert

Mounting of the Pulleys

Mounting of Steering Column

Wheel and Tire Combination

Duvall Gets Chrome

We have been very busy and haven't had the time to do much on the roadster build lately. Tom and I took the time today to show the components and what we did to mount our steering in the 32 roadster project. All of our components came from Ididit. We have the standard steel 32" steel column, the standard size aluminum adaptor ( they also make a shorter one ), the Lecarra steering wheel, stainless Borgenson joints and a length of double D stainless shaft. We fabricated an aluminum finish plate that will cover the hole in the firewall and also provide the mounting studs for the column. We drilled and tapped the back of the aluminum finish plate for two studs that will pass through the firewall and provide the mounting pointd for the tabs we welded to the column. Check out the pictures .

We tried a couple of different locations before we were happy with the steering column height and angle. We made the opening in the firewall a little larger than the column so we could move the column as the components were installed. The hole location in the picture is actually our second choice as we had located the first hole to low. The first hole was filled in with fiberglass mat , sanded flat and painted flat black. here is no one definite location for a column since the space available is determined by the height and location of the engine and the engine mounts. Another consideration is the brake pedal location. Since we haven't decided on the mounting location of the brake master cylinder yet we left ample room when we made the final position of the steering column for the brake pedal. We had to add a flat steel plate to the steel tube substructure in the upper cowl area of the roadster body. The flat plate has 4 mounting slots machined into it for adjustment of the steering column mount. That mount is an Ididit polished aluminum swivel mount. It has two mounting studs that pass up through the flat plate we welded behind the dash. A couple flat washers, lock washers and nuts and the swivel mount is in place.

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