A little more progress to report.
Victor has done a great job sketching out some of my ideas. We are heading in the right direction, but not there yet.
Some of these are a little wild, but gives a flavor of the attack car I want to build.
Middle left is my fav front end, with the centre grill slats, and middle right is my fave rear/side view.
Retropower have a lot of work ahead
In the meant time Jason @ theGMR.com has completed the front uprights. We just need to get them shipped over to the UK so we can continue with the chassis build
The fabricated front uprights are based on the Corvette C6 uprights. Being made from steel, they are much stronger than stock and aftermarket parts made from ally. They dont suffer from deflection during hard cornering. Also they only weigh 1lb over the stock items.. but strength is way up
Jason starts with a load of machined parts. The hub face and upper and lower ball joint mounts
All the parts that make up 1 pair of uprights
One unique feature of theGMR uprights is they have matched the stock lower ball joint taper perfectly using a custom built reamer. They will not disclose the exact taper but we can assure it is not either of the standard 7 or 10 degree tapers.Their uprights matches the stock taper perfectly to ensure quality fitment with the stock GMR components.
1.5" thick steel tooling is used to ensure there is no deflection of movement during the welding process
The fully welded uprights
As you can see, only 1.1lb heavier than stock but so much stronger
The uprights can accept stock GM hubs, or the awesome GMR hubs. Guess what we are using on nighthawk
The completed upright with the calipers and discs bolted on
Fully completed fabricated GMR upright and hub, with brakes installed
Hopefully we will have more updates coming soon. In the meantime, like the facebook page to keep up with my musings and other great projects I find.