Sum,
I am actually making drawings for some of the parts that I need machined and I have a friend that is going to provide machine work. I am also getting some parts CNC plasma cut by Mittler Bros for the suspension, so I have started but I am also doing a motorcycle right now also (putting a Yamaha YZ490 into a Husky frame that I have) and I have several things that I need to do on the roadster plus build a small trailer so I can drive it to B'ville next year and have more than just one pair of underwear and a tooth brush! So keeping pretty busy sure can't wait until I retire so I can work on this stuff full time.
I will definetly contact Goodyear regarding the 22 inch tire, they did a big update on it a couple of years ago and if you watch drag racing you can see that the new tire is somewhat wider across the tread. I guess that my thinking is that the Goodyear funny car fronts are used my a number of people for the drive end and some of them have gone over 300 and I only want to go just over 200 so my kid can get a "hat". I am sure that at 330 on a top fuel car the load from the front wing is probably much higher than the weight that my lakester will be.
" It is only time and money"!
Rex