C6 Suspension and Drivetrain under a 1969 Camaro under construction @ Ironworks.

[ironworks]

Alright Guys I have been holding out on your for alittle bit. We got a 1969 Camaro body in here a few month ago on a pallet. After doing an initial mock up of the car, we decided on running 335 20's in the rear and 285-19's in the front, Like a ZR-1 Corvette. The customer supplied the C6 transaxle from RPM transmission. Here is the initial mock up.

The Overall Tire sizes are not exact since we dont have 335/25/20's just laying around, but you will catch the vibe we are going for.




As you can see the blue tape stripe on the bottom of the rocker, we decided that wedge sectioning the car 1" would give us the desired stance. By doing this we made the bottom of the rocker, the door gap and the speedline of the front fender all parallel and level at ride height. We made the cut inbetween the door hinges. Here are some pics.


The cut through the door

The door reinstalled


More to come, Enjoy

[ironworks]

Once we had the car mocked up on the table at ride height we started mocking up the basics of the car to get and game plan for the floor and front suspension pickup points.



Just a mock up engine we had laying around.


We landed the engine where the bell housing line is even with the windshield wipers, if that gives you an idea of how far we set the engine back. About 4 inches.

[ironworks]

Then we started to lay out the design for the floor and how we would incorporate the suspension design for the pick up points into this. So we decided to build the main framerail structure inside the rocker to act as the frame rails that would go inside the Rocker and build low profile crossmembers that would be even with the bottom of the rocker. So nothing would hang below the rocker. Plus the design of these allows our floor to be 2" below the stock height of the original floor. Plus it will give us tons of lateral support and resist chassis flex.

Paper mock up from the blue print printer.


Crossmember jig fixture


Floor mocked up on table




Mocking up the Floor in the car


We should begin to start bending tubes and getting the lower suspension pick up points located in the next few weeks.

Enjoy

[awr68]

You guys do amazing work Rodger! Thanks for the update! What's the plans for the interior...Vette like?

[ironworks]

No idea on the interior not even a clue, YET. We are still working on the Suspension pick up points and push rod suspension designs.

[radrambler]

rodger

cool stuff...
is the exhaust going to run above the torque tube? because i see the extra space you built in above the torque tube and no other humps in the crossmembers .
you guys look busy..congrats

tom

[ironworks]

Since the rocker taper wider to the front we just then plates the same width to trim to fit and they need to be set down. Man that would be a wall not a console if it was that high.

We are pretty busy, But everybody has less money to spend these days but they still have big dreams. So we have to work on more cars at one time to do the same dollar amount each month and the work on the cars gets done at the pace the customer money comes flowing in. We are lucky alot of people are choosing to have us do work on their cars, weather it is just certain aspects of Full tilt turn key builds. Work is work and we will do whatever it it takes.

Thanks

Rodger

[HWY Nova]

Originally Posted by ironworks

Floor mocked up on table




Mocking up the Floor in the car

I like the floor layout! Very progressive and well thought out. I can't wait to see it fully mounted in the car.

Tucking the exhaust in the tunnel below the torque tube will give your Camaro an AWESOME side profile...... no visible headers!


--Eric