Innovator - 67 Nova by the Roadster Shop

[BANKO]

Nice & tight packaging of the Watts linkage setup. How how much bell crank travel / lateral housing movement is designed in?



The stance is killer! Any plans to stretch the rear wheel openings?

[tones2SS]

Originally Posted by RS-Perf

A few pics of the body on the chassis sitting at ride height.

That is just NASTY! Killer work guys.

[Roadster Shop]

Originally Posted by Bryce

Great looking project.

I know there has been lots of discussion on chassis vs axle mounted watts bellcrank, but why did you decide to do it that way?

In a perfect world I feel a chassis mounted bell crank would be the ideal setup, mounting the bell crank in a fixed position to the chassis would allow the rear roll center to move up and down as the suspension goes through its travel. With the bell crank fixed to the rear end housing you do not get the same roll center movement, yet I still feel there are performance improvements over a conventional panhard bar. We offer them in both configurations but due to packaging issues we built this particular car with the pivot fixed to the rear end housing.

[RPM HOTRODS]

Boy, I can almost see it finished!!!! As always, killer work guys. Can't wait to see it at Columbus!!!

[Roadster Shop]

Some more progress on the floors of the car

[kwhizz]

Wow!!.......Great Job!!!

Ken

[Bryce]

Originally Posted by RS-Perf

In a perfect world I feel a chassis mounted bell crank would be the ideal setup, mounting the bell crank in a fixed position to the chassis would allow the rear roll center to move up and down as the suspension goes through its travel. With the bell crank fixed to the rear end housing you do not get the same roll center movement, yet I still feel there are performance improvements over a conventional panhard bar. We offer them in both configurations but due to packaging issues we built this particular car with the pivot fixed to the rear end housing.

Thank you for the answer.

[Sinco]

Sick!!!

[Roadster Shop]

In order to get the look and stance that we were after, we altered the wheel base and moved the rear wheels back 1.5". (This was done from the start in the chassis design.) Here are the wheel houses fabbed to clear the 20x12's the Innovator will be running out back.

[Al Moreno]

I got the latest issue of Popular Hotroding and saw the progress shot. This car is going to be AWESOME! I loved the head light treatment, the engine carpartment, etc........

Can you post the rending pic and interior pics?