53 chevy chassis. pictures.

This is a chassis i am building for my 53 chevy. ill have more pictures soon!

 

What make is the front end kit?

 

speedway mustang II kit w/ air ride. I cut out an inch section on each end of the crossmember to sink higer up into the frame rails to attain more clearence, the hats also had to be lifted an inch in order to keep the geometry correct.

 

Looks great so far.

 

Nice work. Should be very cool.

 

You sure thats going to be low enough? Nice work

Maybe a stupid question but do those c-clamps have some type of copper coating on the screw portion?

 

Now thats a notch! I love seeing a car in this stage!

 

thanks fellas,
the clamps are copper coated to help prevent them from sticking to any metal i may be welding on.

 

I thought that would be the concept but never knew they produced such a thing. Pretty neat....

 

UPDATES on my 53 chevy
tranny mount


Engine Mount

 

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This is to increase beam height under the bag moung on the trailing arm.
stiffens up the trailing arm.

 

that is just awesome! nice work.

 

That is very cool, how much of the floor do you think you will have to cut out to fit the body? Will you be able to run a back seat?

 

Wondering this as well. Looks like the trailing arms should be low enough to only need cutting of the floor where the bag top hat crossmember is (and raising the driveshaft tunnel)?

 

Very nice work!

 

That is very nice work. Some good ideas for my sons project. Thanks for sharing.

 

You must own a C-10 truck, those trailing arms look familiar. LOL. Nice work man.

 

Do you know what your doing?... Nice fab. work.

 

thanks fellas. as far as the floor goes, fatrhino youve got the right idea. I used the trailing arm system because i will still be able to run a back seat with out much work, as where a triangulated 4 link set up would have been very invasive to my back seat area going this low. the arms will clear with no floor modifications all the way down, however it will need a tunnel for the tranny/driveshaft.

 

Nice work i just c-notch mine and added bags I like how you did yours

 

This is spot on.Nice work and I see some nice ideas there.

 

Great pics...keep em coming, Good to see shots of the truck arms..im changing my rear susp over to that set up in a couple months so good to see some pics! Killer notch!! low!!

 

Do you think a two piece driveshaft would eliminate the need for a taller driveshaft tunnel? I'm going to run truck arms on mine and I haven't mocked it up yet.

 

a two piece drive shaft would probably eliminate the need for a tunnel all the way through, however i am using a t-5 tranny that will need a tunnel, so i plan to tunnel it and use a one piece drive shaft.

 

Ha, I need to see the tunnel and floor work. I'll watch for it.

 

the frame is going in the paint booth this morning. ill have pictures this evening.

 

looks great, I want to do something similar when I pick up mine 53/54

 

That frame is so trick, I'm drooling!

 

Have you been in my shop while I'am sleeping. The rear links I did on my Model A are almost a exact copy. I built them 2 years ago it works great. I will have to post some pics for you. Need to get back to work on the wife's 53 4 door thanks for the build posts.