Million Dollar Skunksworks Kirkham

[David Kirkham]

We finished up enclosing the foot boxes today. They were very challenging to get around the starter and the header. I do not envy my guy who will start on the header construction tomorrow!

[David Kirkham]

This is a head on shot straight into the business compartment. Notice the huge hole just waiting for an aluminum big block monster.

[David Kirkham]

This is a shot looking at the driver's side foot box. Notice the holes in the top of the foot box for the throttle, brake, and clutch pedals. We also moved the wiper motor into the cockpit. Every little bit of weight you can move back helps (and we moved a lot of stuff back!)

[David Kirkham]

Here you can see the front suspension is now making it back on to the chassis.

[David Kirkham]

Here the rear uprights and the CV's axles (with the right length bolts) are now assembled and installed on the chassis. Notice how long the rear lower control arms are.

[David Kirkham]

Here is a close up of the rear differential with the CV joints. Our CV joint system is much easier to work on that other CV set ups on other cars. These axles simply pull out of the differential (like all modern cars)--making the differential installation much, much easier.

[David Kirkham]

Here you can see a close up of the suspension push rod. Notice the push rods are tapered! We did everything we could to save weight.