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Originally Posted by ironworks
WOW a project like that will be quite an undertaking for someone. There is not chance that someone is going to be able to have a production unit for that engine/drivetrain combo. Some one will have to develop the car to work under those guidelines and quite a few more. Just moving the suspension the camaro wheel base is the easy part actually getting everything to sit in the car where you can sit in the car comfortably will be a whole other dynamic. And then trying to make the car sit good will be a whole other challenge.
Lots of people want to do these off the wall combos just to say they did with no consideration of the overall end result of the car. I think if your going to do it you might as well make the end result well thought out and appealing to the eye. I see guys put C6 vette suspension all the way around with stock cradles at full width under first gen Camaros but they sit like a 4x4 truck with a leveling kit and look stupid.
More then likely you will have to narrow the trackwidth of the car, lengthen the wheelbase a bit, and the some how get the engine and drive train to fit behind the front seats with the drive shafts going forward in the passenger compartment without affecting the already short interior space of a 1 gen camaro. And then make it look good at the same time.
If you're interested in having us do some work for you we can, but just be warned a project like this is very very expensive because of the huge about of labor effort involved to get the whole system together. Every aspect of the build needs to be considered from Day 1 of the project.
Plus the hard part about building the entire project in Solidworks is that after that very labor intensive Design work, the scope of your project is to only build one prototype so you better hope what looked like it will work on paper will actually fit a driver comfortably in the car and that it will look good when you stand back and hope the stance looks good from down the street. Designing the car is Solidworks just speeds up the process you still have to test the design with a prototype to then be able to go aback and modify the design. That is where the R&D phase of the design process comes in. And that is why it costs the OEM's tens or Hundreds of millions to design a new car to build alot of them. In a project like this your building only one car.
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You have very very valid point and this project has been though about for a very long time
with the ride heights, wheelbases, track width etc been taking into consideration at every single point off the decision.
All your point are very valid the biggest challenge and also why I opted to share the build is to draw on the forums insight and points
And as things progress share thoughts and opinion so I dont end up looking with racing blinker but think of the various option out there
so this what what the approach was going to be from my side
Light the complete Audi drivetrain onto my Flat Chassis Table then jig up all the location and the actual ride height, mounting point and all other relevant data.
Invite a very good friend of my over from a engineering works and let him bring over OptimScan 3D scanner or I take the Setup there to render down
from there start looking and all the structual integrity and replicating what needs to be across.
want to run this vehicle on a full frame front to back
pity i am based in South Africa otherwise it could have been a fun joint project with a few specialist in USA.
As Ironwork mentioned is going to cost I am well aware but I have to be even more cautious since the feeble Rand is competing against the dollar at a rate of almost ZAR11=$1.
Also a reason why I was asking if anyone has a full frame in CAD or Solidworks to start off with
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