Haven't been able to do much recently as the fab shop has been overwhelmed for work, and as that's what I do for a living it's taken a great deal of my time.
This last week I've plumbed up a drift car and a 60's Mustang, built coolant and dump tanks for a rail dragster, modified an alloy rad for a circuit car, built isolation blocks to bypass an abs system, welded up cylinder heads on a Suzuki 500 twin 2-stroke racer and made hoses for fuel, turbo, brake and clutch systems.
Todays work on the Escort was just fabricating the rear crossmsmber for the cockpit part of the chassis. The hoops were made from 13mm square box bent around a 4" tube.
The 13mm box was a bit corroded, but as my local steel supplier only wanted $15 (£7.50) for a 6 metre length I thought I'd go for it!
First photo shows the fabricated hoops, and the capped off inner ends of the outrigger sections:
Then all welded together. For some reason the camera angle does not make the hoops look parallel (they are!):
The forward hoop will be joined into the trans-tunnel with more of the 13mm box.
I now have all of the chassis components (main rails, outriggers, crossmembers, bulkhead frame and rear chassis kick-ups) ready to assemble into one complete chassis.