have fun and cant wait to see it built

Well everyone here's a quick update on what's been going on with the car, we got back from SEMA and decided to go ahead and get started on this car. We ended up narrowing the trunk for a total of 10 inches, then widening the wheel wells 5 inches per side we also narrowed the under seat area 5 inches per side as well. Within the last week of being back from Sema we ended up doing all these modifications, which included hanging quarter panels narrowing the floors, narrowing wheel wells etc. We are trying to get the car back on the chassis as fast as possible. In a attempt to save some time on fabrication we decided to chop the rear frame rails off and redesigned them slightly. The rear frame rails are being narrowed roughly 2 inches per side, this allows us to re use a factory axle transition of the factory floor. While this does not need to be done to a RS chassis normally we are doing it so we can reuse the factory front floor pan area. I do not recommend an average Joe doing this, unless he has a frame table and experience in modifying frame rails. The only reason we are going through all this is we are after a completely stock appearing 1965 GTO trunk.


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That should hold a serious tire in the rear. Cannot wait to see this car in person. Please let us know if we can be of any assistance to you on this build.

Mark

Thank you mark, but we are currently building wheels for the car with another wheel maker. I will keep you in mind for another customers car we are currently building, he has mentioned he wants some forge lines. You were asking about what size wheel we are using 19x9.5 up front and 19x12.5 in the rear We are running a 275/35/19 front and a 345/30/19 rear.

No worries, I am still excited to see this car when it is finished. Good luck!! and hopefully, I will see you at SEMA 2015.

So a decision was made today to do a one inch chop on this car to help it out. I figured some might care to hear about it, we will keep you updated in the following weeks.

Sounds interesting. I'm not sure I've seen a chopped GTO. Keep up the good work

We are going to be very careful as to not ruin the look of the car.

Any updates?