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crider:
Cool deal. I haven't been on this site very long, but there's some really helpful people here.

Mr Froggy:
Not trying to rain on your parade but welding half pipe along the bottom would not pass tech and would not make it any safer.  Who knows how old it is and what kind of shape the tubing is on the inside besides the weld quality.  Even at only 11 seconds it's dangerous.

It's a cool looking chassis but if it were mine I'd make it into Cackle type car and fire it up when your buddys are over or make it into wall art if you have the space.  It won't take much to go 10s but find a good used, newer chassis and stay safe.   

Paul New:
I like it but it needs several additional tubes along with the cage that is without regards to the welds that I cannot see in the pics and how thin the tubing may be. Before you put any money into this chassis it would be worth a trip to a chassis cert just to verify the wall thickness is correct before you start spending money on it.
Or you could make a gate like my dad did

rooman:
Apart from the cage mods needed the big problem will be wall thickness of the frame. If it is too thin the car is toast as there is no way to fix that short of building a new back half. If the frame is usable there are plenty of sources for front axles--Dyda, Me , Mark Williams, Dragster Supply, Chassis Shop etc.
  First step is to contact one of the guys on this list and get an informed opinion of what you have.

http://cms.nhra.com/chassisinspectors/

Roo

dreracecar:
Boy, The things one could get away with back in the day, My R&B car was raced up to the early 90's being all .035 wall tubing, NHRA bought some sonic testers and that was it. Old chassis are for the resto crowd to deal with, if you want to race, you almost need something that was built after 1990

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