TheTallOne
Daily Driver
A little under a year ago, I acquired my 2nd X19. It was in both much better and much worse shape than my Lemons X19, but the body is straight enough and the doors close, so I want to save it.
Unfortunately for my love of small Italian sports cars, I'm 6'6". The problem can be seen clearly in this picture of my Lemons X pre roll cage. I'm sitting on a bare aluminum seat bolted to the stock floor pan
So here's my plan:
So far I have stripped down the car and gotten it onto the rotisserie. I have also gotten the steel tube to build the lowered floor frame, and removed the coolant pipes under the tunnel. More on that tomorrow
Unfortunately for my love of small Italian sports cars, I'm 6'6". The problem can be seen clearly in this picture of my Lemons X pre roll cage. I'm sitting on a bare aluminum seat bolted to the stock floor pan
So here's my plan:
- Fully strip down the car
- Put the empty shell on a rotisserie
- Cut the floor out and lower the entire cabin 3 inches. This should be enough for me to fit with a helmet and under a roll bar tucked into the factory hoop, albeit with a very modified (Kart/Formula car style) seating position.
- Restore (extensive) rust damage
- Install 6 point roll cage, excluding door bars
- K20/24 Swap?
- Custom suspension/Widening
So far I have stripped down the car and gotten it onto the rotisserie. I have also gotten the steel tube to build the lowered floor frame, and removed the coolant pipes under the tunnel. More on that tomorrow