Thanks for the nice comments..did some more work, new rear crossmember to clear the fuel cell, more bars for the rollcage to stiffemn the kickup area (primary frame weakness of a c2 & c3 vette)..and a shot of the fuell cel frame

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/rearbar1.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/rearbar2.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/rearbar3.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/rearbar4.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/rearbar5.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/rearbar6.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/rearbar7.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/cellframe1.jpg

Looks like Quite a project......... But looking good! :thumbsup:

I finished some more stuff, like my front steer end take off rack and pinion setup:

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/steeringshaft2.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/steeringshaft1.jpg

a little movie:

VID

messing about w/ gauge placement:
http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/gaugeidea.jpg

hard to see but this is a C4 dana 44 in place of the original diff
http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/diffs10.jpg

it has an integrated cooler pump mount (I will mount a pulley on the pinion yoke, this pulley will be a sort of brake rotor at the same time, I'll mount a spot caliper there so I can use it as a parking brake and do away with the junk stock system that never works)

and I'm going to redo the IRS (I had already built a 5 link), swapping to double a arms and custom upright and laying the shocks w/ a pushrod setup
http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/shockcam2.jpg
I've already started building it.

Here's my chassis design. You can see the oval piping I'm going to use for exhaust (no mufflers drawn in)
http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/racechassis4.jpg
http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/racechassis5.jpg

looking very nice - love all the fabrication you are doing.

Nice work on Solidworks also...man I love that program....

I had finished the 5 bar rear suspension and decided to dump it...instead I decided to do a double a arm suspension so I made a design and got at it. I've got it pretty much finished apart from mounting the shock on the lower arm and welding the upper inner mounts to the frame (after cleaning them up and reshaping them to something decent, they're clamped in for geometry checks)

The design:

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/reararm_1.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/reararm_2.jpg

The real deal:

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/aarmirs1.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/aarmirs2.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/aarmirs3.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/aarmirs4.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/aarmirs5.jpg

I also finished my rollcage w/ a swingout kit

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/swingout2.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/swingout3.jpg

And I completed the front steer end take off rack and pinion....and it even works :D

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/frcrossmember1.jpg

Just gotta fabricate an adapter block, much like a bumpsteer block but reversed to bring the tie rod hole towards the rim, since it's a front steer it needs to be outboard of the steering axis for the proper ackerman angle.

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/tierod.jpg

http://members.home.nl/m.b.p.jongman/frontchassis.jpg