Million Dollar Skunksworks Kirkham

[David Kirkham]

The block we started with weighed 225 pounds. Each finished wheel house weighs about 2-3 pounds. (I'd have to check and see if I ever wrote it down). Here you can see Sandwich sawing the billet log in 1/2. The chunk of aluminum is pretty big--but it was the only way to turn the corner on the chassis to feed the rear suspension loads to the front of the car and finish off the tub.

[David Kirkham]

Here one of the 1/2's of the block has been mounted into the mill. We welded extensions on to the block to get it far enough away from the rotary axis so the spindle didn't crash. We then cut the welded on areas off (along with any heat affected zone).

[David Kirkham]

Here is a shot of the part almost finished.

[David Kirkham]