Young Gun's C6 Suspension Tube Chassis Mopar Cuda

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The pictures dont do them justice, its pretty amazing the amount of work into one tiny piece! Now I just have to figure out how to make them work haha

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Well after a very long but productive day, Ive made some good progress and my chassis jig is one step closer to being done. The 1/2 steel had been sitting in the truck for almost 3 months and after driving to pick it up it has finally moved. As you can imagine it is ridiculously heavy, so luckily a friend of the family was able to help out with his crane truck! Unloading was a breeze, I then measured my sections, clamped a channel guide and used a steelmax saw. Even though its only recommended to 5/16 it did a great job and left a very accurate and clean cut. Im pretty worn out after maneuvering the plate all over the place. Ive still got alot more cutting to do and then hopefully going to rent a mag drill and spend a weekend drilling holes. I still have to sandblast or evaporust treat all the metal, epoxy primer everything, put on casters, buy bolts, make chassis fixtures etc. etc. Hope you like today's pics! Thanks for the support guys! My ride is going to be badass!

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Its fun coming home and seeing another goody that has arrived at your door. Today a C6 z06 rear differential showed up that I purchased off ebay 2 days ago. Considering this is a $3000-4000 new differential. Everything looks good to go, however there is a hole in the case due to whatever accident it was involved in an caused the differential cooler to puncture the case. I will form and roll a new piece of aluminum, weld, and finish like new. Needless to say I have developed numerous "mini projects" within my entire project. I plan to completely rebuild it with cryo, micro polished parts, shafts, etc. and finally powder coat it the same black finish as my control arms along with the tr6060.

When I started this I knew I had expensive taste, that only the best would do and I knew that the only way I would have my dream car and have it built to the level of quality that i want was to take parts that I would never be able to afford brand new, that had some sort of flaw and put some work into them to make them nice again. That's part of the fun of it for me, learning to do things myself. The last thing I want to do is be on someone Else's schedule. Stay tuned!!!!!!!

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Well first off I wish I could have had the time or chance to go to SEMA but one day I will and hopefully it will be to display my car. Anyways just wanted to post some progress. On my days off from school and work I try and make at least one cut in the plate which is alot of work in itself, I have about 3 more 6' cuts, then evaporust treatment, grind smooth as possible, scribe, center punch, and drill all my holes. Then it will be getting everything as level as possible and supporting the cross plate underneath. Lot of work to go. Check out my new 6 stage Dailey Pump and Moroso R5 pan, absolutely amazing! I cant wait to get the jig together, prime everything and mount all my components. Hope everyones project is going well. Updates soon!

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This is definitely a cool build! Very ambitious. I like what you're doing with the plate. I thought about doing that for my build but it didn't make sense for the cost and effort considering I'm doing this extensive of a build just once. Great to see this though, keep up the good work.

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Thanks Will, I have to catch up to your project! I know the jig is alot of "unecessary work" but I know when its done it will be awesome and If I want to make an adjustment I can just slide a fixture to the next set of holes very easily. In the future I eventually want to build other projects so I plan on having the jig a long time, so putting in the work now is well worth it.

[SuperB70]

Hi Gant!

That oilpan is just sweet, 4 pickups, 2 each side? Very smart structure to have support rail from side to side in the midlle. It's going under maincaps?

Maeby I have to copy that to my own pan.. Thanks for sharing.

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The oil pan is really nice 4 pickups, a spot for a oil temp gauge I believe all stainless steel construction, pretty low pan for clearance. 6 stage dry sump pup. Your correct it sits underneath the main caps. Ive thought about duplicating the pan out of a lighter material such as aluminum, but the pan is almost too nice, so I may not

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Hey guys been a little while since I’ve posted anything up, I just finished another semester of school and finals. Anyways got some new toys and going to show you some of the work I have been doing. First off tried my first attempt at polishing the casting off of one of the heads. Spent about two days doing it and it is a whole lot of work and time. One things for sure you have to have the right tools for the job. They are much better in person but I’ve come to the conclusion that I am going to media blast them and probably powder coat them black.

I also picked up a 2 stage Johnson rear end pump that I took apart and I am rebuilding it now. I am going to mate it to the rear pinion cover of the zo6 differential and run it to two oil coolers etc. Anyways I am sourcing a new set of gears and two housings now because a lot of debris ruined the ones I have. Should be pretty cool when it’s done. I also picked up a rather large Patterson dry sump tank I plan on doing some modifications too including filters, heat bungs, etc. Took several hrs. to completely clean the entire tank and I have been working on refinishing the metal and removing some scratches from it. I have not tig welded in a while so going to pick that back up on my school break.

You’ll also notice all the red plastic plugs I bought, ha-ha I went a little crazy with them and now I have every plug and size you can imagine, but it will be helpful to keep debris out of the engine in the future. In the last pics you’ll also notice I removed all of the intake gasket material and also been working on repolishign the intake and exhaust ports, still a long ways away from finished and have to still do the other head. Hope you enjoy!










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