Rad Rides Pro Touring 1956 Chrysler 300

[V8TV]

This one is sick... the Rad Rides crew is building a '56 Chrysler 300 on full Viper suspension, 1000hp twin turbo NASCAR power, and all the detail you'd expect from Rad Rides. Check out the chassis, formed entirely from .090" chrome moly sheet steel... piece by piece!

http://v8tvshow.com/content/view/476/1/

[Musclerodz]

As always, Troy is a step above the rest. I love that chassis!

Mike

[Garage Dog 65]

I loved Sniper - my favorite car. This will be even better I'm sure. These guys do it right ! I expected a huge all aluminum TT Meaney EFI'd Hemi under the hood though. 2000 TT hp in a 300 should be about right....

Kevin, can I go along on these and carry your camera gear and get you donuts ????? PLZ !!



Jim

[V8TV]

Jim ,

We'll take all the help we can get!

[ironworks]

Wow that 300 is going to be awesome... I really like what your doing with the V8tv thing. It is very informative.

I was wondering if you guys are going to do more Behind the scenes stuff as to how they have things set up. There looks to be some really cool stuff around their shop, like behind that curtain. Is that a Final assembly area or another lighter fab section? I just think old and new guys could learn lots from just walking around their shop. I mean Troy is so big time he has an ARP bolt cabinet at his shop, I cannot even afford the cabinet let alone all the bolts to fill it but what a nice resource. There projects are so well organized how and where do they store the customers parts? Everyone knows that a car taken apart takes up twice the space if one held. But you never see parts anywhere in their shop. Most shops store the parts in the car, but that looks half ass. I just think that would be a great idea for all builders, Novice to Pro.

Rodger

[V8TV]

Rodger,

That's a great idea... we've wondered if people would be up for that kind of thing. A lap around the shop with Troy would take an hour or so at least.. there are so many details and tricks all over.

We'll make an effort to shoot the general tips segments at shops we go to and post them. Troy's got a new CNC center going in now, as well as some new facility upgrades going in. We're supposed to shoot an open-house type event in the next month or so over there. We'll be sure to have Troy walk us around the place so you can see how things are done.

As for parts storage, each car they work on has it's own off-site rental storage facility for the parts. It's part of the bill, but it helps keep stuff together.

We once spent some time learning de-burring basics from Moose...

http://v8tvshow.com/content/view/333/45/

I'd love to go to your shop and see what's going on... you guys are doing some killer stuff there!

- KO

[NOVA]

Originally Posted by ironworks

I was wondering if you guys are going to do more Behind the scenes stuff as to how they have things set up. There looks to be some really cool stuff around their shop, like behind that curtain. Is that a Final assembly area or another lighter fab section? I just think old and new guys could learn lots from just walking around their shop. I mean Troy is so big time he has an ARP bolt cabinet at his shop, I cannot even afford the cabinet let alone all the bolts to fill it but what a nice resource. There projects are so well organized how and where do they store the customers parts? Everyone knows that a car taken apart takes up twice the space if one held. But you never see parts anywhere in their shop. Most shops store the parts in the car, but that looks half ass. I just think that would be a great idea for all builders, Novice to Pro.

Rodger

I also would like to know what they do with parts they take off and do not use, I was once told they ebay alot of stuff that is not used? such as good stock parts that are being replaced, where do they put these parts? As Rodger said, you never see any parts laying around, there shop is very well organized and looks very cool, there web site shows a couple pics of the shop but it would be interestin to see and hear in more detail how they store, inventory, and sell extra parts and just how there shop is laid out.

The videos are good stuff, keep it up!