HPI Customs : "Modern" Pro Street 70 Chevelle
 

So here's our latest Chevelle project. Its a bit of a departure from our typical pro touring stuff, but we had to spice it up a bit!

Our customer had already done this car once, and was totally unhappy with the frame he got and never got around to finishing the car. The decision was made to tear it apart and start over, and luckily we got to take it on! Its powdered by a Dart motor, and we are going to be focusing on "street" and not "race" so its getting full interior, full 3.5 inch exhaust, tightly fit cage, and a ton of pro touring style components with a big nast motor.

We are running the billet specialties street lites all around, ssbc brakes, and speedtech front suspension. for the frame we took our chevelle k brace and modified it for teh back half style frame we built. Lemons headers up front, into a custom exhaust we are building from 3.5 inch tubing. Full aeromotive fuel system, CA chassisworks rear suspension which we added a chromoly wishbone and a chromoly anti roll bar too. Fab 9 housing, and the list will grow!

Wait till you see our front motor plate.......

Heres the before:

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and our new frame

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Some more pics

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When life hands you lemons, install them! (2 1/4 to 2 3/8 stepped to a 4 inch collector and 3.5 inch exhaust)

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Sick car keep the photos comming !:thumbsup:

It looks awesome!

Tyler that looks great. The smallest part of the headers are bigger than the exhaust pipe was on my Camaro when I got it. Sweet build.

Haha ya they are pretty massive headers. Its funny how you do a few 2.5 inch systems, then 3 inch seems huge. After doing a bunch of 3 inch, it looks small when you do 3.5!

Just finishing off the exhaust routing tomorrow. It is going to be sweet! Flowmaster 50 heavy duty series as we know this thing is going to be way too loud!

Because of the huge case size of these mufflers, we had to get them up higher into the car for ground clearance. Instead of putting them out back, the customer preffered to keep them under the rear seat area so we modified the crossmember AM style for the exhaust. yes, they had to be 5 inch diameter pieces of tubing!

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So got the rest of the exhaust tacked together. keep in mind its 3.5 inch, so the bends are not tight radiuses and we had to work to keep the ground clearance, but its all great! Looks just like a really big normal exhaust system! I was all for an x pipe or crossover, but we got the no no in this case :wow:

Its all mild steel as it is going out for coating. it will still be TIGed though


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Very nice Tyler

Jesus that thing looks like a monster! :thumbsup: