thankyou for your comments Bryan,
there are several reasons i have chosen the t-bird upright, they are aluminum and don't weigh much at all, and adapting the vw centers is a snap, this allows me to use vw shafts, stock length and vw aftermarket light weight brakes, i haven't spent $200.00 on the completed uprights
i would like to use the audi trans but i live in the middle of nowhere arizona where no one ever owned or knows what an audi is, the wrecking yards here are full of 70's cars and trucks and not much else, i could get you a good deal on a 1978 buick though, just pay the shipping, the power levels i will be using are below that which would break a type one vw trans so seeing that i have three and they cost nothing, thats what is going in.
with regard to the front, alford and alder are what lotus used and i have a set complete with brakes, upper ball joints and lower trunions so in the spirit of a lotus 23 that's what is going in.
a wrecked miata would set the build back by about $2000.00 which is the going price for one in northern arizona if you could find one, if i could find one within 200 miles of my location, i would still have to get it here.
the only reason i used a 2003 ranger for my last build was because the wrecking yard didn't know what to do with it, it had no value without the keys, hence the price of $300.00 scrap weight value.
i live in hicksville here, other than the people on this site, i don't know anyone who would ever consider building a car, let alone one that was computer controlled
i live 150 miles from las vegas, my nearest big city, the freight costs as much as a transmission if i were to buy it on line.
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