Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Some woodwork


The engineer told me I had two choices for seats for the Dodge.
1. Any seat from a production car after 1971
2. The original seat

I bought a pair of bucket seats from a Toyota MR2. They were pretty small and I figured they should fit. I was wrong. With the seats pushed up against each other, the corner of the seat was actually pushing on the back of the outside door skin. I've decided to go wit hthe original seat. Rebuilt of course.
I was fortunate to have enough bits of an original seat to use as a template to start making a new one. The photo above is the old rotted seat and my attempt at a new rebuild. This is just the base support piece

Wednesday, July 1, 2009


I guess stepping away from the Dodge for a while allowed me to think about it a bit clearer. Things have started up again! I've pulled out the L300 Stub axles and replaced them with the L200 stub axles. The discs and calipers from the L300 fitted straight on to the L200 stubs. The commodore rack and pinion appears to be about the right length, so hopefully no modifications needed there. The only thing I need to do now is ream out the holes on the steering arms to suit the commodore tie rod ends.