I think in order to really make that work - you're basically going to back half the car.... tying in a roll cage with down bars to thru the rear to the chassis you added. It would help the car no matter what so would be a good addition anyway I think.
I wouldn't do that kind of project unless I had some kind of frame table. Cause you're going to be cutting a lot of structure out before you can start welding stuff back in.
What you need to do is call AME, tell them what it is you want to do and let them guide you. They will have their Engineers look at what needs to be done to do it right and advise you on how to achieve your goal. Customer service at AME is very impressive. Ask for Scott. I've dealt with him before and the guy is awesome.
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Curtis,
Thanks I do plan on calling AME just wanted some input here first.
I see AME is a supporting vendor as well...
Well -- I didn't spend hours going thru his thread -- but looks to me like Jason just did a mini tub job and added a 4 link to his existing chassis rails.... What you showed was an entire frame which means the rails have to come out and much of the floor etc --- so they're similar but really two completely different jobs. He left all the structure there - or at least that's what it appears to me with just spending a couple minutes looking at it.
By the way ---- That's exactly how I'd go about updating the suspension. You can buy all of these parts from Morrison or DSE and do without the chassis portion. Morrison folks are super helpful --- and it's really just a whole bunch of measuring - tacking in the mounts - landing the arms - triple checking and squaring --- before you weld 'em final.
I did my brother in laws Camaro with about half a dozen plumb bobs --- a couple squares -- some straight 1 by tubing - pulled about a zillion measurements off before I ever started and wrote them all down... and checked for square and went to cutting....
I added a crossmember for Rudy since his is pro street and he's running 18" wide tires... so I couldn't land the stuff anywhere near his existing frame rails (if you call the tin crap in a '69 Camaro a frame rail). Originally on his job we were leaving everything else alone -- so I even flipped the crossmember upside down and used it as a driveline loop... rather than cut up into his floor.... of course then we ended up gutting the car and doing all new upholstery --- so I could have welded it in correctly and attached his whole floor to it but OH WELL.
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