Quick Update.

Vette chassis on jig for alignment and suspension positioning completed. All the stock suspension points identified and transferred to a jig cradle. Removed the chassis. Mocked everything back up for a quick doublecheck - then blew it apart and sanded and primered the jigs. Next step is to put the Porsche body on the jig - get the wheels under it and set the rake/attitude.

I look forward to these updates. You meticulousness is unbelievable. I have a friend whose attention to detail and his shop is as clean as yours. He spent a career in the Champ/Indy car world. The racing world reflects that level of professionalism. How about you?

Darren

JetMac
 

Hi Darren,

Probably my aircraft background pushes me to be neat and clean. 26 years in aviation and we aren't allowed to be sloppy. We are in an environment where you constantly clean up before-during-after the job so it becomes standard practice. Plus for the past 15 years I've been an instructor - and we have to constantly remind people in class and out in the hangar and shops to do the same.

Lived here in INDY my whole life and have been into the Indy/Usac/NHRA deal since I was very young. I live just down the road from all the small and big race shops - and they are clean as can be. Some of the F1/Indy/Nascar shops are nicer then the inside of most peoples homes. Check out Ganassi Racing some time to see what I mean. They are a block from where I work at the airport and it's unbelievable the conditions of the current professional shops out there.

Plus the garage is attached to my house - so the wife wouldn't appreciate tracking all that inside .... :eek:

Jim

Built and installed 2 of the 4 support tubes - installed 3/4 all thread rod at all 4 corners for adjustment. Put the tires/wheels under it and the cars ready for ride height adjustment. Looks like I'll need to cut out the inner wheel wells before I can started though. The stock 4.5 wide wheels and the stock wells - just weren't designed to have 11 inches of tread in there !! :yes:

Man that 20 years in a storgage bin primer sure is ugly.

Next step: weld in some slip-joint cross bracing inside the body - and split it down the middle and widen the car 10 inches. That should be a heart stopping Point-of-no-Return.... :eek:

that thing is going to be sweet, :hail: good luck with widening the car, have you thought about having artmorrison bend you the main rails? might take some of the fab work off your plate. keep us updated

Got a little work done this week. Pulled the front suspension, engine, trans and rear suspension. Removed the headliner and all the interrior insulation, wiring, wiper motor and arms, and the steering column. Front wheels were able to tuck up in the wells - but the rears were no where close. So, time to cut them out. No turning back now....

Look'n Good! :thumbsup:

Got some cutting done this afternoon. Need to support the tail - so I'll build/prime some body supports tonight and finish cutting out the opening Monday. Can't wait to get some tires in there and set the attitude so you guys can critique the stance for me. Right now it's 5 frnt and 6 in the rear - but I think the rear will need to be higher. I can cut and extend the rocker panel since there is nothing behind it - that would make it look lower and be an easy mod.

As Scott said on another thread - and so it begins !

Justanova - Thanks for the support sir ! I have talked to Art and some of the sales guys at several shows and asked if they'd do a complete chassis for this - but with the C5 stuff in the back they wern't interested in doing the whole thing since they prefer the 9 inch assy. So I do plan on having them do the main rails and the rear section w/o the C5 gear, and I'll fab in the brackets. (take a look at the G Force Cuda site - it will look like that in the back- Thanks Bob and Alan !! - or see Ironworks' C6 Truck rear setup - it's wicked too)

thats gonna be sweet..one near me on craigslist a 911/930 with a chevy 350 in it.. im tempted to go look..

Hay thanks for the props on the chassis. Have you seen the posts on the Zo6 nova we are building? It is the projects section (66 nova update). We started on the chassis last week. We will be mounting the transaxle next week. We already got the lowers mounted and need the torque tube and engine to keep going. This one is going to be a real bad boy.

Looks like your moving right along.

Rodger