Without any shrouding you won't get much airflow through your oil coolers. I suspect that is already in your plans, though.
arn't you concerned about some salt build up in the radiator being that close to the surface.
As I’m still suspecting it’ll be a couple more years until I can take it to the salt, I’m going to build a couple of air coops / rock guards for the coolers that will extend forward to just under (or maybe make some cutouts into) the front bumper. When I get to the aero portion of this build, all of those coolers will be ducted out of the engine bay also to help reduce/eliminate high pressure in that area. Plus, before I actually get it to the salt, I’m fairly certain I’ll extend the front end a bit forward, which will give me a lot more room to move things around.
Not sure if I missed any backgroung info but what do you do for a living and did you have much welding experience prior to the start of the build. And for someone who says their tig skills arent all that, those are some pretty welds
Nope, no real welding training, all self taught. Just a 28yr/old office monkey. I bought a flux core when I was 16, but didn’t really accomplish much with that until my early 20s when i started building stuff for my motorcycles. I bought a used mig and tig at the beginning of this project from a friend who was upgrading. Total time tig welding is maybe just under 2 years at this point. Probably went through half a dozen bottles of argon, so whatever amount of time welding that would give me. At the beginning a lot of what I was building, i was doing more for the practice (water and fuel tanks, etc.) rather than making a final product. Oddly enough, to me tig welding seems rather easy once I finally grasped the concept of what I was actually looking for. All it took was a friend of mine letting me stick my head in his way while he welded. I had to actually see it to understand.