57 Chassis C4 Corvette Front and Rear, Stage 4 + SS Kit + 32 Gallon Fuel Tank by Hot

[fleetus macmullitz]

Looks good Russell.

Here's an idea if you decide to do the 4 door...

Give it the much better '57 Chevy coupe 'look' by copying the design of say the Mazda RX-8... how they keep the coupe look with the larger sized front doors with door handles; and the semi stealth smaller rear doors without door handles.

For me the door handles on only the front doors draw your eye to those doors.

[rat_rod_russell]

Originally Posted by compos mentis

Looks good Russell.

Here's an idea if you decide to do the 4 door...

Give it the much better '57 Chevy coupe 'look' by copying the design of say the Mazda RX-8... how they keep the coupe look with the larger sized front doors with door handles; and the semi stealth smaller rear doors without door handles.

For me the door handles on only the front doors draw your eye to those doors.

Interesting Idea, but the car I'm getting is already done. We're not the most awesome sheetmetal and I wouldn't want to bit that off as a short term project. Plus the 4 door I'm looking at is already done. I'll just drop it on my chassis then rock and roll.

Originally Posted by deuce_454

the rest of the frame looks great though.. but that mount needs fixing

looks like it works to me

https://www.youtube.com/user/RatRodRu.../1/qXEUpuXsHEk

Because the diff is mounted rigid to the front diff there is no twisting to the bolts just stretching. So the stress goes straight into the metal. You might notice that mount is .250" where the rest of the frame it .125" And for super HP applications we go the bottom of the diff and take it forward to the rear cross member just in front of it to spread the load out across the frame.

On my C5/C6 conversion 57 Chevy truck I learned that lesson a few times where I removed the transaxle but kept the corvette rear end. I build a diff adapter to put a traditional drive shaft yoke to the C5 C6 corvette rear. That diff we rubber mounted on 3 sides and it snapped the bolts in half at only 500 miles. Hit the link in my sig and you'll see what I'm talking about.

The torque arm on the C4 corvettes is as much of an "ease of assembly" or top down assembly design idea as it was for leverage. Do notice that the 5th gen camaros and 2009 Vipers went away front the torque arm in favor of short mounted differentials.

The chassis in the photos is #46 and never have we had some one break and differential except me. I was testing the small Dana 36 at the drag strip to see how much abuse they would take.

Thanks
-Russell