Hi All, I recently painted a car for a customer and as part payment we agreed that he would set up and weld in my Morrison 4 bar rear end, Williams engine mounts and Progressive Tubular X Member into my 56 sports coupe chassis. Since he was a Engineer and had done two rear ends already I thought this was a sound plan and would speed things up for me.(you guy's know where this is going don't you). The car was painted and paid for,however my chassis keep dragging on with the usual excuses and some I hadn't heard before. He finally announced after 15 months that he couldn't finish it and I could have it back. The 4 bar is tacked in place,the upper control arm mounts on the diff housing have been cut on the inside (diff center side) and rewelded to reduce the top bar angle. (something about them hitting the inside body mount). I'm going to reassemble the whole rear end assembly next week and start measuring everything and go from there. I have a S.B.C and T700 and some front engine mounts to use as a guide to set up the side mounts.Now finally my question. I remember something about moving your rearend back 1/2-3/4 in when running larger tyres to centralize your wheels in the opening.I plan to run 28's,have I got this correct or not.I was also told to set the trans pan parrallel with the bottom of the chassis rails and then fab up the trans mount.Is this also correct? Sorry about the long post but I thought I may as make my first one a good one Thanks in advance for any reply's.
P.S I will take pic's (I know the unofficial forum rules).
Regards Andrew.