Ironworks New Project - Unibody Ranch Truck

[WILWAXU]

Cool!
A buddy of mine in San Diego is working on a uni-body right now. He's got a late model Expedition motor in it. He's also using the gauge cluster.

[ironworks]

Well Guys we drug her inside today, Really drug, Blown up tires and no rear axle is what you get for 350 bucks. We set it on the ground this morning with a 5" front and 5.5" rear ride height and Damn she looks really good. We set it up with 20's and 22's. I thought for sure it would be a less static tire difference, maybe 19's and 20's but the 22 looks money in the rear. With the rails being 34" OD front to rear it is only a 2 Dimensional frame front to rear. So that makes it pretty easy to design in Solidworks. I just need a wheelbase measurement and a few other measurements and we are ready to rock.

Here some early mock up pics.

[tjbruning]

cool project... Carter did a sick rendering awhile back

[GMracer]

badass, and I can't wait to see the chassis build, the work you guys do is absolutely phenomenal. Makes me want to build yet another chassis for my truck.

[ironworks]

Don't do it, You will never get the project done. Ask me how I know. The tube chassis was the 4th chassis in the 12 years I have owned the farm truck. If I could think of a way to out due the tube chassis I probably would have. I'm that crazy. This one will be cool, but not tube. We will design it in Solidworks and laser cut the boxed rails. I have some slick ideas for this one but nothing like a tube chassis.

Yours is pretty killer also....

[WILWAXU]

Should be a nice project!

[GMracer]

Yea I remember seeing the laser cut box tubing chassis you did, man I wish I had better access to laser cutting, I would've totally done that instead. Thanks for the kind words man, always good to hear support from the big guys