wont that make the body oober weak though
not at all.it will be fastened solidly to the underlying frame structure,and since this is stronger than the original floor pan and firewall,it will actually be a stronger assembly.the only time the body will be weaker is when it's off the car.
so i got to measureing for the cage,and set the seats in position.this brought up a small problem i knew i would be facing.
you can see the seats are sitting on the frame over the hole framed under them.they need to sit IN this hole,as the floor attatches to the bottom of the rails.
since the frame was widened,it made these wells narrower,so now the seat is too wide to fit.it will be a fairly easy bit of work to narrow the bottom of the seats,but i need to keep the part you sit on the same size.
they are on the small side to begin with.
determined another curious fact-the overall height of this car will be 41 1/2".consider that the gt 40 was so named beacuse of it's 40" overall height.this thing is tiny.