I tryed to email you a response to your question. No luck, returned as undeliverable. If you don't mind I will just post my response here.
Let me know,
Jerome
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I tryed to email you a response to your question. No luck, returned as undeliverable. If you don't mind I will just post my response here.
Let me know,
Jerome
Let me know,
Jerome
Sure Jerome, here is fine. Don't know why your email didn't reach me.
For background, am refurbishing a 78 IM and discovered evidence of an accident in its past, and crappy repair craftmanship.
Thus far I found one small rust area the size of an thumb, not in the floor pan but in the sheet metal behind the frame head. I will yank up the carpets to see what I find from the top down. If lucky will treat and POR-15 the crap out of it.
Anyway, I figured if the problem was serious rather than patch the VW chassis that over the winter I would remove the body and restore the chassis, or else investigate the Street Beasts tube frame and maybe use my body on their chassis. Jerome has experience with the tube chassis and could perhaps give me some feedback. I also emailed Tom McBurnie (SP?) the designer of the tube chassis used by Street Beasts to see if an old IM body will work on his design.
Rust sucks.
The floor recognizes Jerome.
For background, am refurbishing a 78 IM and discovered evidence of an accident in its past, and crappy repair craftmanship.
Thus far I found one small rust area the size of an thumb, not in the floor pan but in the sheet metal behind the frame head. I will yank up the carpets to see what I find from the top down. If lucky will treat and POR-15 the crap out of it.
Anyway, I figured if the problem was serious rather than patch the VW chassis that over the winter I would remove the body and restore the chassis, or else investigate the Street Beasts tube frame and maybe use my body on their chassis. Jerome has experience with the tube chassis and could perhaps give me some feedback. I also emailed Tom McBurnie (SP?) the designer of the tube chassis used by Street Beasts to see if an old IM body will work on his design.
Rust sucks.
The floor recognizes Jerome.
Erik,
With enough money and time anything is possible! I would imagine you would have to make up brackets to mount your body to the Streetbeast frame. Doesn't sound impossible if you have the right tools, facility and know-how. The way I envision doing it would be:
1. have the SB frame and floor pan in a rolling chassis state
2. have a garage high enough that you can suspend the body above the frame and be able to raise the body up and down while fabricating and test fitting the new mounting points.
Sounds like allot of work, but not impossible.
Keep trying to contact Gary he is not the "Speedster Expert" but he should be able to point you to someone there that is.
As far as a source for parts, I've been working with a local shop:
Streetsboro Foreign Auto
Streetsboro, OH
Elmar Kruza
330-626-2456
Good Luck,
Jerome
With enough money and time anything is possible! I would imagine you would have to make up brackets to mount your body to the Streetbeast frame. Doesn't sound impossible if you have the right tools, facility and know-how. The way I envision doing it would be:
1. have the SB frame and floor pan in a rolling chassis state
2. have a garage high enough that you can suspend the body above the frame and be able to raise the body up and down while fabricating and test fitting the new mounting points.
Sounds like allot of work, but not impossible.
Keep trying to contact Gary he is not the "Speedster Expert" but he should be able to point you to someone there that is.
As far as a source for parts, I've been working with a local shop:
Streetsboro Foreign Auto
Streetsboro, OH
Elmar Kruza
330-626-2456
Good Luck,
Jerome