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Originally Posted by 68RS350 (Post 234927)

Looking at the first pictures with the bent tube going inside the middle of the rear lower control arm. Is that how you guys are looking to put that in? It kinda looks like the control arm will hit the tube when the moves through the suspension travel?

We are only expecting 3" of uptravel in the suspension at the spindle so in order to contact that tube it would have to move about 10". The tire would hit the package tray before the control arm hits the tube.

Very nice guys!
Both the '67 and '69 are going to be killer looking cars.:thumbsup:

That is looking good. Met the owner at goodguys joliet, good luck with it. Ill be checking to see the progress.
-d

This is such a sweet project.

Well we have the main section for the halo of the rollcage wrapped up. We have began boxing the rear wheel tub structure and the rear crossmember to go behind the diff of the transaxle. Things should go pretty fast this week in the the rear.

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2009138.jpg

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2009141.jpg

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Originally Posted by ironworks (Post 235819)

Looking good Dave (and Rodger)!!!!!

--Eric

Some pics to give you the idea of what we are going for.

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...8-4-2009-1.jpg

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2009144.jpg

The trunk floor transition

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2009145.jpg

There will be a plate welded onto the side of the Hoop for the rear section of the cage to land onto. There will also be a mount to brace up the trunk hinge bracing for the trunk hinges. We are working on the rear crossmember to fit into behing the differental to hold the diff and also spread out to this hoop for the rocker system for the shocks and the upper control arm mounts. Complicated, YES, but it all works in my head I just need to make it work in Solidworks.

Thanks for checking it out.

Man, that is impressive. AWESOME WORK!:thumbsup:

Ok so we have been working to tie the rollcage into the rear of the car. We had decided to incorporate the wheel tubs into some structure in the car. We started the plates that come off the wheel tub hoops we made. The is some massive structure I'm trying to figure out in my head that will go in between the wheel tubs to hold the suspension and cantilever rear suspension.

Well you can see the start of the plates. It is very tight under the package tray and it took quite a bit of work to get everything togther to land the tubing at the right spot. The plat has a hole in the bottom and the tube will be capped and welded flush on the bottom. Then we will box the plate sticking off the wheel tub hoop and box the top, so the tub goes through and welds to both plates. COMPRENDE????

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2009079.jpg

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2009081.jpg

You can also see the mock up control arms we built to get a space relationship of where everything fits to lay out what plates need to where in the rear. We had Bobby Alley lay out the improve suspension geometry for us n this project. So if your familiar with C6 geometry you might notice some instant center changes and some camber gain changes. Plus both arms are longer then stock. We also need to optimise the ball joint angle to the static ride height. Things are progressing.

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2009083.jpg

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2009084.jpg