I am not done yet. I was istalling seat belts and seat yesterday. should be finished that by Monday.
I still have to mount throttle linkage from the cabs to my foot and make a shifter for the trans. Then it all comes apart for final welding inspection and chassis paint. (Body panels were painted a week ago)
I dont worry about the length much. Many altered and gassrsers are as short or shorter. Other than a 45 lb fiberglass body there is acutally little difference. We ran a slant 6 turbo altered in the early seventies. It was 90 inch and absolutely no trouble at all. I dont expect this motor to give much over 250 hp and even a full power version would only be 300 to 325 so it should be ok. Nicest part is it fits in the back of a half ton truck. No trailer required. That how we transported the altered too, in fact folks who raiced at Cayuga in the early seventes may remember the couple of ol farm boys who used the bring their bantam altered there in the back of a GMC 3/4 ton truck. Yup that was us! Stu Denyes owned the Altered then and the engine was mine. We always borrowed his "old man's" truck to truck it there.
