Well it is going to have a fender there, not quite sure what, yet.
Anyway, onto the front suspension.
I made some LCA mounting brackets out of the 2x3x.120 wall tube. Cody had cut the blanks initially, but it turned out that - with the new urethane bushings installed - the brackets were about .06-.08 too narrow, so I marked the bosses on the LCAs...
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...and then fired up the angle grinder/flapdisc, and ground that much material away.
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Three bosses later, it all fit rather perfectly.
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Then, marking and pilot drilling the LCA bracket bolt holes...
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...next evening, finishing things up...
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...Followed by the inevitable mockup.
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The LCAs need to be angled back 15.5 degrees, to match the original Jaguar geometry so I hit upon the idea of pinning the fwd brackets at the correct width - 13.5 from the scribed chassis CL, which I'd added way back when it was just tubes on the floor, and 2.25 back from the fwd chassis tube datum...
...et voila ici.
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It worked, as you've heard me say ad nauseum, MINT.
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I needed a refe3rnce to measure angularity from and so made a small fixture to mount one of my laser projectors on the centerline of the tube I call the Chassis Origin Datum (the very first tube that got laid in and welded)...
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... aligned the laser beam with the scribed CL on the front tube, and then laid a length of 3 in masking tape aligned with the scribe marks, and laser.
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Driving a 3 foot length of .5 steel rod thru the drivers side LCA pivots provided a convenient angularity reference, with the straightedge aligned and clamped to the edge of the masking tape...
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...and thus, the required 15.5 degrees was easy to find.
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Gotta do a rinse, repeat for the passenger side, and then do a bunch of measuring to make sure everything is square and straight with the centerline and the four hub centers, but, things are looking pretty good so far.