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When Eric from Scandinavian Street Rods first assembled the chassis, it had all stock kick ups and dimensions, but I thought it wasn't low enough, so when I got it back to my shop I started to cut everything up and push it towards the ground. And typically when you lift the motor and tranny you get a big hump ion the floor, which I didn't want. And what's interesting is the tie rod is underneath the driveshaft and transmission and the bottom of the chassis and if you adjust that tie rod with the movement of the two bell cranks you can actually adjust the Ackerman in it.įOOSE: Because I wanted this car to sit on the ground, I knew I needed to lift the motor and tranny in the car.

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Then I built a half-scale model with a couple of protractors because we wanted to get the Ackerman to work properly, and by making a foam-core half scale model we were able to figure out how to make it work. So, I thought: what if I did a push and pull steering, and I had just pulled the body off my wife's '54 Corvette, because we were putting the Morrison chassis under it, so I had a '54 Corvette steering box, which has a Pitman arm hanging straight down, and I did a couple of loose sketches to figure out how I could get the steering to work. FOOSE: Once I started putting the car together, I had the motor and the transmission sitting in the car, the grille in there and the axle sitting in there, and trying to figure: how am I going to get a tie rod through here? I didn't want a big hole in the side opening, and when you look at the coil and distributor on the front of the motor there was no room, there was no place I could run a tie rod.

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