We finally got to build our uprights for our suspension! Our weld fixture worked great & took about 45 minutes to fix & weld the first prototype.. I have a car that we will be bolting them to in a few weeks to test & proof the prototype.. Some Blu car that I got lurking around the shop..
Looking good Cris! Always taking things farther eh? Just curious though, were aluminum spindles not good enough? What kind of geometry changes did you make to justify the time? They look awesome, just curious! I knwo you always have a reason for doing stuff!
Okay so what are your plans with these and what is going to be different from stock ?
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Originally Posted by Cris@JCG
We finally got to build our uprights for our suspension! Our weld fixture worked great & took about 45 minutes to fix & weld the first prototype.. I have a car that we will be bolting them to in a few weeks to test & proof the prototype.. Some Blu car that I got lurking around the shop..
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I have no logical explanation why we did these spindles.. It was just a challenging project for us to do.. J/K.. It has to do with cost.. When I priced out the GM spindles with the manufacturing of the steering arm.. It was expensive.. SO we just went ahead & designed our own C6 Upright.. It maintains the stock geometry but has our steering arm built into it for our suspension.. Right now I am waiting for these new ball joints that should be available soon that will have a steel pivot ball instead of a nylon that comes stock in the C6 upright plus has a grease zert fitting.. Plus I can make my own pin so that I can do dual tapped bearings with aluminum hubs.. Then we can have the great debate about steel vs aluminum.. Yes my steel spindles will be a bit heavier than the GM aluminum ones.. but I have my reason why I prefer the steel ones instead .. The bottom line I just have always wanted to do a spindle project since I saw the ones Mike Maiers did for Brian’s car.. Now I know more about how GM made their uprights.. press fit of ball joints.. tapers on the ball joints & their bearing packs..
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Originally Posted by 64pontiac
Looking good Cris! Always taking things farther eh? Just curious though, were aluminum spindles not good enough? What kind of geometry changes did you make to justify the time? They look awesome, just curious! I knwo you always have a reason for doing stuff!
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Originally Posted by syborg tt
Okay so what are your plans with these and what is going to be different from stock ?
I think that pretty much sums up why we all here. None of us really need to build these cars but it pretty cool that we do.
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Originally Posted by Cris@JCG
I have no logical explanation why we did these spindles.. It was just a challenging project for us to do.. J/K.. It has to do with cost.. When I priced out the GM spindles with the manufacturing of the steering arm.. It was expensive.. SO we just went ahead & designed our own C6 Upright.. It maintains the stock geometry but has our steering arm built into it for our suspension.. Right now I am waiting for these new ball joints that should be available soon that will have a steel pivot ball instead of a nylon that comes stock in the C6 upright plus has a grease zert fitting.. Plus I can make my own pin so that I can do dual tapped bearings with aluminum hubs.. Then we can have the great debate about steel vs aluminum.. Yes my steel spindles will be a bit heavier than the GM aluminum ones.. but I have my reason why I prefer the steel ones instead .. The bottom line I just have always wanted to do a spindle project since I saw the ones Mike Maiers did for Brian’s car.. Now I know more about how GM made their uprights.. press fit of ball joints.. tapers on the ball joints & their bearing packs..
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