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Old 06-04-2008, 09:36 AM
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This is a shot from the right, rear wheel looking forward. You can see the enormous billet aluminum piece we had to use to "turn the corner." The 90 inch wheel base prevented us from using a rear bulkhead to carry the suspension loads forward. This was the best work-around we could come up with. This part was extremely difficult to make. Because of its size, we had to make it with a true 4 axis program. The block started out around 60 pounds (I don't remember exactly now) and ended up around 3 pounds when we were done.

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