The Stovebolt is kinda not about dragsters. Boxing has actually never been proven by engineering study on old truck frames. Common sense says it will make a frame stiffer but not necessarily stronger, in the sense of it not being analyzed using computer structural analysis software and interpreted by a mechanical or structural engineering team, it may cause a snap somewhere because flex is necessary in a sprung truck. Not to mention the maintenance manuals have specific instructions for frame repair welds. (Do's and Don't's) Written in a different era. All of the forums that discuss it are by people that don't know what they are talking about and build up a faux knowledge in their mind.
Some builders never realize that V8's don't weigh more than some 6's.
You've named a lot of names of stuff I never heard of and sound expensive. Why not a custom frame? Roll cage? Scatter shield? and all that fancy stuff on a old truck frame?
Now don't take this the wrong way because I like fast, I like power and I like the drag races, but you are fabricating a truck like that and you don't know what boxing is?
