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ChevelleNV 02-22-2011 08:35 AM

So are you gonna be selling these as weld together kits, for the guy who wants to do all the welding himself and save some money?

ironworks 02-22-2011 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by ChevelleNV (Post 334069)
So are you gonna be selling these as weld together kits, for the guy who wants to do all the welding himself and save some money?

Once I'm convince they can be put together buy "any do it yourself'er". I have some people testing the Tri-5 version currently. These are just the first production models of the Chevelle unit.

ChevelleNV 02-22-2011 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by ironworks (Post 334071)
Once I'm convince they can be put together buy "any do it yourself'er". I have some people testing the Tri-5 version currently. These are just the first production models of the Chevelle unit.

Ill tell ya what, send me one for a 72 Chevelle and Ill put it together and test it out for ya....

brandon8350 02-22-2011 11:07 AM

This looks great .Like a big puzzle

rwhite692 02-22-2011 11:25 AM

Rodger that looks great, I think the market is going to respond really well to it.

ErikLS2 02-22-2011 01:26 PM

What are some of the advantages of all the individual laser cut pieces welded together vs. the more traditional bent rectangular tubing style?

Very impressive by the way, as is all of the stuff from you guys.

ironworks 02-22-2011 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by ErikLS2 (Post 334136)
What are some of the advantages of all the individual laser cut pieces welded together vs. the more traditional bent rectangular tubing style?

Very impressive by the way, as is all of the stuff from you guys.

The advantage is you are able to build a frame rail or part to fit up to a given not flat or formed piece very tightly. It allows you to build a chassis like the original stamped unit on a much cheaper scale then have parts stamped or hydroformed. Sure a chassis like this costs more and there are chassis out there being manufactured that are out of a nominally available rectangular or square tube that work but they then have to hang further below the chassis or have a shorter beam height thus reducing the strength of the frame. We reduced the beam height to improve ground clearance further and keep the same strength or be stronger that a thicker frame just through design. We set out to build the strongest most well engineered chassis and then after we had a product we though was good enough figure out how much to price it at. I'm not concern if other frames are cheaper. Alot of frames in the marketplace are. But make our do things the others cannot because they are built out of a piece of rectangular tubing. Our frames are stronger and sit lower with more ground clearance then any chassis on the market.

Hopefully this babble session answered your question. If not let me know

nic 02-22-2011 07:42 PM

Love the chassis :thumbsup:
Makes me want to build a Chevelle next or maybe a GTO......

Bryce 02-22-2011 08:29 PM

That chassis is bad@$$. I am a design/test engineer by trade. Everything I do is tabbed and slotted it makes it almost self jigging. Great work.

What do you use for stress analysis?

ironworks 02-22-2011 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Bryce (Post 334256)
That chassis is bad@$$. I am a design/test engineer by trade. Everything I do is tabbed and slotted it makes it almost self jigging. Great work.

What do you use for stress analysis?

Eric is having one of His rocket scientists work on that for. So the same guys that approve parts for the moon and fighter planes at PDT, will approve this frame for street and track duty. More on that to come very soon.


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