66 Chevelle Street Racecar/Protouring
 

After years of trolling these websites and collecting ideas and parts,i am finally going to start my project.66 Chevelle using a Howe stockcar front clip,morrison tri bar rear suspension,shortened 9in floater rearend with widefive hubs,front tubular upper and lower arms,tubular spindles,rack n pinion,widefive hubs,15 x 15 widefive beadlock rears and hopefully 15 x 10 widefive beadlocks up front,adjustable jacking bolts on every corner with 5" coilsprings. 2 x4 one off chassis w/ morrison style center member w/ exhaust cutout on the pass side and exiting in front of rt rear tire,nascar style.No rollcage some sort of a backseat, fully fabbed firewall and floor, no big $ items,383 stroker w/ a stick,4-5" rideheight,and massive tires tucked under.

Why no cage? I'm building a street car now, but I'm planning to do a cage, but I've struggled with the decision. I'm just interested in you reasoning as to why you're going cageless.

Thanks,
Jerry

Basically gonna be a art morrison max-g chassis which has outer rails and inner rails and alot of crossmembers making it plenty stiff.Also want the interior space not to be clutered by a cage and the body and chassis to be sep units,just a matter of preference Jerry,I have a full cage in my race truck,thats where its needed this is gonna be a sunday driver not a must.Later Rich

Sounds like a cool project. Keep us posted, Rich. :thumbsup:

Nice project, I love 66 Chevelles Keep us posted.

Worked On The Car A Little Bit Over The Last Couple Of Months,front Clip Is Centered And Squared,front Suspension Mocked Up,fr And Rr Wheels Mocked Up,body Reassembled To Get An Accurate Fr Wheel To Wheelwell Centering So I Could Locate Rearend Centerline,art Morrison 3 Link Is Here And Mocked Up To Locate X-member,time To Lift The Body Off And Build The Chassis

I'll be keeping an eye on this build :yes:

Blue70,you have the car that I was looking for before I found this 66,your cars look good and thanks for the interest in my build. My shop has been real busy lately so not much progress over the summer,but I'm ready to get back to it.Rich

66 Chevelle Pro-touring https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php4?t=20722

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I can't wait to see this project as is develops.:thumbsup:




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Looks great. As Eric said, we need more pictures! I love the look of the wide fives on that car. :bow:

I have got a lot done since those pics,will post ASAP,check out these wheels I asked my wif-errr-santa clause for x-mas,bead locs chrome w/ black trim http://www.outlawraceparts.com/, Rich

Body is on dolly,gonna start changing body panels and then put back on chassis when its done,then the sheetmetal fab starts.Looking ahead but like to be at that point by the end of the winter,Rich

Frame progression

More pics

And some pics!!!!

And some more!!!

Thats it Chad,Eric thats where Im at,enjoy,Rich

Nice work!:thumbsup:

I like it:cool:

You're catching on!..... We love project pics.


--Eric

Lookin Good. Don't you love making sparks! Keep it up. We love pics! :lateral:

YAH MAN,if you aint making sparks you aint working,the easy route would have been to call Art Morrison and order mandrel bent rear frame rails and a center rail kit for their max-g chassis,but Id rather create all the curves and turns by cutting, shaping,welding and grinding,later Rich

This my intended ride height,4", Ive made provisions in the rear suspension to raise it to 5 and 6",the body is channelled so its even with the bottom of the rails,and all the components will be tucked up in the frame,Im going to build the headers so they dont hang down below that plane.Does anybody with completed projects with a ride height this low have any other precautions I should be aware of,thanks Rich

Nice built! Subscribed!

Thanks,still recovering from back surgeries and complications,but gonna start working on it next week and should have some progress pics up within a couple weeks.Just been dying to pickup the welder and a grinder for the last couple months

No new updates,been 5 mnts since my back sugery and I havent been able to work yet,cant wait to get my hands back on this project!!!

Back problems are no fun, I broke mine years ago.. Wishing a speedy recovery for you.. and not just because I want to see more of this build :unibrow:

Thanks Blue 70,this has been an unbelievably rough ride,back and leg pains worst than before the surgeries,Im frustrated.Cant wait to get back to it!!!!!!!!!!

Man I love what you are doing with this car so far. It is the same direction I want to go with my build. What is the thickness of the 2x4 frame rails you are using? I was thinking about using 2x3 .083 wall, but after seeing yours I think I might do 2x4 as well since it allow me to hide the exhaust

i like they styling of this. I gotta come by the shop and check it out. The wide fives look sickk

Thanks!! 2x4x.125 (or eighth inch) a little heavy but Im not running a cage,and the 2x4 is key on keeping the exhaust even with the bottom of the chassis.Im going to recess the seat frames down 1in,so basically my floorpans will have a roughly 18inx18inx1in box for the seats to sit in thus giving you an inch of headroom back,I figure you lose 2in + of headroom by channeling the body even with the bottom of the chassis and this will give me half back.And then both my hot turbo exhaust pipes will go to an x merge on the pass side come thru the inner frame rail right about where the trans box is,and at that point going to covert to oval pipe to run under the seat pan and into a nascar style boom muffler which is 2 in and 2 out and then exit thru the frame and rocker panel in front of the rt rear tire.The exit tip is gonna be 2in by probably 18 long,Im gonna custom built it so the dimensions that look correct will be decided at that time.This is actually my next step after finishing the rear clip and suspension.Then gonna mock the motor/trans in and start on all that.If anyone has 2 mockup turbo housings I could use some soon.Do you have a build page??

You wait til I get back to it,Ive got 6 mnts of recovery in which I did a lot of research and have alot of ideas and plans to put into action.Come by Il personally give you my laundry list!!!!!!!! I gotta see yours in person!!

No build page yet I have changed my mind with the direction I want to go so many times its crazy and I dont want to look like a scatterbrain. So Im still in the design/part collecting part right now. I even sold my car since it was a little too rough to work with. Plus it gives me more room in my budget for cool suspension parts :D I do have the whole summer off from school plenty of parts and a brand new welder so I hope to have a rolling chassis by september.

Take your time and do as much as possible yourself and have fun with it!! Plus when you start on it youll see your ideas change on the fly,just let it happen.You havent seen rough till you see my 66 Nova shop project I bought.Needs every outer pnl and a full floorboard and cowl/apron.My 66 Chevelle body was bad also but the only parts of the shell that Im using are in pretty good shape(roof,inner qt pnls,and the cowl and hinge post) everything else will start as .024 flat sheetmetal!!!