Okay gents, I've been at it for a few weeks to get this all dialed in and rolling, and I was doing decent... lets see, what did I do.
Finished up a custom exist pipe/can install and a mount, burned in all the welds on the subframe, transmission mount and painted it the subframe. Sized and build chains (master link). I'm using a 420 chain, which seems plenty beefy enough. The 530 chains I ordered were way overkill, and heavy.
I bent hard lines for part of the brake system, and used the nylon stuff in parts where I needed a bit of flexibility, then joined them all with compression fittings which is what MCP sent with with it. I primarily used hard lines because there wasn't enough nylon line, but I suppose if I was thinking ahead far enough I could have ordered some. Bleeding the brakes turned out to be a bit frustrating, but I mostly got that figured out
I set up a bracket for the gearbox shifter, and and mounted a lever for a parking brake (not yet functional). Once I new how everything would install on the floor, I cut the corners for the floor (36x36 sheet of diamond plate aluminum from home depot). I drilled all of the wholes, cut slots, etc for the floor to fit. I did this by just installing the floor and redrilling all the wholes that are already in the frame through the aluminum, or marking where I need to cut slots. I secured the floor down with some self tapping screws which I predrilled pilot holes for.
Once I was done with everything as far as I wanted to take it, I broke it all down, then burned in all of the welds on the frame that were just tacked in... and there was plenty, and I still missed a couple, but there is plenty of metal there to secure it. I planned on painting the whole thing, but it is cold here, so I have to get the garage warm and do a little at a time, spray, exit, let it cure for a moment, then air the garage out, and start again.
The hammered finish is nice when it sprays good.... but it seems to stop spraying good when you get about halfway through a can, and it proved to be slow and tedious. I learned this on the subframe. I could have dealt with this in a vented space, but, it took too long in the garage... even with a respirator, you still breath the vapors that are flashing, and that **** can kill ya, so.... it'll be in primer until next spring. I may end up getting the rustoleum hammered in a can, and attempt to spray it with my HVLP gun... possibly the primer nozzle. We'll see, that project is in the future.
I was going to run out of krylon hammered anyway, so, I just cobbled together all the primer cans I could find and covered the frame in that for a bit of protection. This sprayed fast and I wasn't too worried about getting it perfect.
So, once all put back together, I took a short test ride, but it was snowing windy and cold, so, only to the top of my driveway and back in the garage. Didn't like the steering, not sure about the pedals.... so, adjustments to make.