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Message: <blockquote data-quote="blizzND" data-source="post: 1271177" data-attributes="member: 18523">Over the weekend my friend needed help bending the tubing for his mini-sprint, I told him that as a matter of fact, I was going to bend my front cage on Saturday also, he volenteered to bring his bender over, and we could work together.Free help? with his own bender? in my shop?  How could I pass that up?Dave and his son Nick cutting Chrome moly for their Mini Sprint<img src="http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e92/blizzardND/94%20Cobra%20drag%20car/IMG_20140323_132624_347_zpsf88d4394.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e92/blizzardND/94%20Cobra%20drag%20car/IMG_20140322_143553_602_zps24546f49.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e92/blizzardND/94%20Cobra%20drag%20car/IMG_20140323_193319_843_zps13f9610b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />all welded up and primed for paint prior to re-install and welding, I will clean the weld areas of paint before I put it back in.<img src="http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e92/blizzardND/94%20Cobra%20drag%20car/IMG_20140324_203246_400_zpsed239679.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />while the paint was drying, I decided to remove the rear seat bulkhead, because NHRA reqires a solid wall between the trunk and the pass. compartment.Looking at it, it would be more work to fill it in and work around all those roll bars pipes, than to just take a sawszall to it and drill out some spot welds.<img src="http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e92/blizzardND/94%20Cobra%20drag%20car/IMG_20140322_105037_466_zps556b056a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />an hour later.. <img src="http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e92/blizzardND/94%20Cobra%20drag%20car/IMG_20140323_134427_716_zpsa1fd61c5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />in case you are wondering, with those speakers in it a little over 15 lbs, a lot of that I think were the speakers.it really oped the car up back there...<img src="http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e92/blizzardND/94%20Cobra%20drag%20car/IMG_20140324_203325_371_zps5f5cb5ba.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e92/blizzardND/94%20Cobra%20drag%20car/IMG_20140324_203314_208_zps16a66a5b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I made a cardboard pattern for the single piece, no holes new 18 ga steel bulkhead.. <img src="http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e92/blizzardND/94%20Cobra%20drag%20car/IMG_20140324_203536_435_zpse9d860b7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I also spent another hour or so scraping body joint sealer from around the fenders in preparation for rolling the whole area with boxliner.stay tuned for the next installment of "How my Wallet Empties.."~blizz</blockquote>