So I'm gonna take these angle iron brackets and mount them about three inches from the top. Now with it, it's 10 inches tall and I don't want whenever we mount it up you'll be able to see the thing hanging out from under the car. (Tommy)> Now we need to do some fab work here on our tank. (Tommy)> Now I'll drop the frame into place, secure it with some clamps, tack it in. If you wanted to use a mig that'd be just fine. To weld all this up I'm using our Lincoln Electric 225 precision tig. This way it gives it a bit of a trimmed out look. The reason I built this little frame work is to give the floor a little bit more structure and that big gnarly hole looks really raw. (Tommy)> Got it! Let's save that just in case I was off a little bit. Basically what I'm doing is making a few marks where we're gonna cut the trunk floor so that I can recess the gas tank down in there. We just need to get some dimensions, cut us a giant hole, and we can get started. We've got a fuel tank and several other parts for the filler neck from Summit Racing. What do you think? (Tommy)> Absolutely! (Tommy)> So our solution is all these pieces. We need to do some custom fabrication and I think we can make it work. These mufflers are in pretty far, and Tommy made those fancy tips, and that's gonna leave us a little bit of room. We've got an anti-roll bar, not to mention the exhaust system. We've got a custom chassis, narrowed frame rails so we can get some big wide wheels and tires here. Nothing under here is original including that fuel tank that's conspicuously missing. (Tommy)> You like them wheels? (Marc)> Nope! (Marc)> Well at a quick glance you can see what I'm talking about when it comes to hurtles. We're gonna figure out a way to make it work. Now we've actually created some obstacles for ourselves with some of those things that Tommy mentioned before but that's okay. (Marc)> Yep one of those, the main one, is gonna be this fuel system. Now to make a car operate correctly there's several systems that have to work together and today we're gonna work on the last few. It's got an aftermarket suspension up under it, LS power, several body mods, and so on and so forth. (Tommy)> Hey y'all, today on Detroit Muscle we're working on our Buick Regal.
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