Project ZRC1 1960 corvette

[NWEBER540]

Most here know me for my last build 69 Chevelle unibody, that was sold back in October this will be its replacement. Which I've been working on for the last few months, check Instagram and Facebook for more frequent updates but I'll get this up to date as I have time

Here it is when I bought it first time it was out of that garage since the early 80's

Some highlights to come are a full tube chassis with ls power and a 6 speed slammed to the ground geared more toward track days and autocross while maintaining a show quality finish that can be driven anywhere

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Couple more from first getting started bracing the body and getting it off the stock chassis

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Figuring out the ride height before getting it mounted to the frame table. Going for 3" of ground clearance in the front with an 1" of rake

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I had this hood design in my head for a while and traded the hood that came on the car for a stock one to cut up, the plan is to have it resemble a 58 washboard good that I could duct all the air through the grille and radiator then out this vent

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Mounted up to the frame table and ready to be cut up

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About this time I realized the car was an original low hp fuelie car however it was missing everything and not worth saving so the chopping will continue

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Made some room and started figuring out the new front track width. Used my cad program to draw out the mid section of the chassis on the garage floor before bending it up

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Trimmed 5/8" out of the bumper recesses to tighten up the gaps complete custom bumpers will be made later and started designing the front spoiler

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Fiberglassed the spoiler in, molded it out of clay then glassed over the front side followed by removing the clay from the back side and adding 2 more layers to the backside after shaping the factory glass to blend into the spoiler

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Engine Trans seat mock up and fitment to get the backbone shape figured out, built a new steel rack to try and keep all the tubing organized

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Backbone and front chassis construction, lots of tig welding in there all built from 1 3/4" USA made dom tube

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Got the front suspension calculations in from Ron Sutton and started building all the front brackets

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Going to be mean looking

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Custom rack in from sweet mfg, mounted in place and finished up the front chassis tubes

[bmbrzmn101]

looking forward to more!! Like what I am seeing so far.

Chris

[berdunord]

WOW !! insane, huge work !

[Fahrenschnell]

Cool Stuff. How are you going to get headers on that?

[Angelo]

Great vision and skil!!

[sik87gn]

Build looks to be coming along nicely Nick. Gonna be an awesome ride!

[NWEBER540]

Cool Stuff. How are you going to get headers on that?

The exhaust is going to run on the outside of the frame between it and the rocker- trying to keep the heat out of the tunnel

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Intercepter Independent rear suspension from hot rod chassis and cycle showed up today

[JustJohn]

Do you bend your own tubes or do the CAD work and farm it out?

[GRNOVA]

Amazing work, Great build!

[NWEBER540]

Do you bend your own tubes or do the CAD work and farm it out?
the guys that made up the rear cradle I believe have a cnc bender, everything else on the chassis was bent up by me on my manual bender

[454bug]

Man, Nick, you are one fantastic fabricator! I had a '65 Corvette for 22 years, lost it through a divorce, and miss it everyday... I would have loved to do something like this with it.

Keep up the GREAT work! :cheers:

[Crestronwizard]

I'm in love

[68Birdy]

Beautiful work! Look forward to more progress!

[ryeguy2006a]

Wow that is incredible work!

I'm curious though, how difficult would it be to add the C5/C6 A-arms to a stock frame? Would you be able to get the CAD drawings like you have and add them to a stock frame, as long as thing line up? I was wondering how difficult it would be to add mounts like that to my stock Camaro frame?

[NWEBER540]

Wow that is incredible work!

I'm curious though, how difficult would it be to add the C5/C6 A-arms to a stock frame? Would you be able to get the CAD drawings like you have and add them to a stock frame, as long as thing line up? I was wondering how difficult it would be to add mounts like that to my stock Camaro frame?

sure it could be added to a stock chassis but, if you were looking for something like that theres a lot of options available for chassis and clips ready to bolt in

[NWEBER540]

This is where I'm at with the rear may make a couple changes yet

[deejai35]

Nick, you are an artist! Great work the plan and execution so far.

[NWEBER540]

Couple more pics of the rear almost finished welding it up

[Godbolt]

Great stuff. I looked for some info on the IRS but couldn't find out much about it. This is an awesome project.

[NWEBER540]

Got it to a roller

[Peter Mc Mahon]

Is that at ride height? What's the clearance under the spoiler/spliter?

[berdunord]

awesome !

[ALLstrokedOUT]

Very very very nice! What dreams are made of!

[rohrt]

Amazing!

[blade]

Going to look awesome! Great job so far.

[NWEBER540]

Yes that's ride hieght 3 1/4" from ground to spoiler

[Motown 454]

Wow Nick, I sat here with my mouth hanging open at every new post. Amazing! subscribed!

[wfo guy]

It looked like one side of the tunnel next to the trans was taller. Is that correct? If so, why?

[sikbrik]

It'd be cool to get a "builder bio", Nick...something about how you got into this (I read about your first car purchase...I didn't have the presence of mind to save $15k then and I probably still don't now), how/where you learned/honed your skills, why you use certain things for your builds, some brief details about your equipment, etc. I read the Chevelle build but not every single post so maybe I missed a lot of this.

You know, because you have time to write things for my benefit rather than working on another badass car build.

Anyway, awesome builds all around - quite literally the stuff of dreams for guys like me. Thanks for documenting it all!

Mike K

[Wraith]

Unbelievable fabwork! Love this build

[NWEBER540]

Tunnel is the same hieght both sides maybe it was the pic angle

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Put the main floors in, formed out of 1/4" plywood and fiberglassed in initially I planned to use steel or aluminum floors but changed my mind and decided to try something different and keep it all fiberglass since it's a corvette grabbed 5 gallons of resin and a bulk roll of chopped mat from a local supply house and went at it came out better than expected

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More floor pics

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More floor pics

[beater65]

Man I HATE messing with glass....


I like that your keeping in line with original since its a fiberglass car. But boy that's dedication, much rather work with metal any day lol. ITCH for days

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Floor pics

[Boosted Falcon]

What is not to like, fantastic.

[Motown 454]

Nice job Nick! It came out great.

[OLDFLM]

Love the transitions at the floors! Did you router/round the top edge of the trans tunnel?

Does the wood become a permanent part of the floor now?

[NWEBER540]

Love the transitions at the floors! Did you router/round the top edge of the trans tunnel?

Does the wood become a permanent part of the floor now?

Yes tryed to have no shap edges so the glass would lay down and no want to keep peeling up, and yes the wood is staying in there I will fiberglass the underside as well after I take the body off the chassis

[Crestronwizard]

excellent

[prossi]

LOOKING GOOD!!...But it seems like its going to be a hell of a job to do a clutch in this thing engine out to do it im assuming?

[beater65]

Yes tryed to have no shap edges so the glass would lay down and no want to keep peeling up, and yes the wood is staying in there I will fiberglass the underside as well after I take the body off the chassis

Curious, did you screw wood buck to steel cage/frame?

[NWEBER540]

LOOKING GOOD!!...But it seems like its going to be a hell of a job to do a clutch in this thing engine out to do it im assuming?

yes engine and trans have to come out together there was no way to make the trans come out without the engine and still have room for seats, this car is small and tight, realistically the technology now how often do you really change a clutch

[NWEBER540]

Curious, did you screw wood buck to steel cage/frame?

there was some additional support underneath to hold everything straight until the glass work was done but nothing permanately attaching the wood or fiberglass to steel

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Some renderings done from a guy on Instagram, it's close to what I'm doing not exact

[Dave Pratt]

Ok...that's the best looking pro touring ride I've seen yet.Great work...really great work!

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Some chassis pics

[Restomod]

I really like the rear diffusior and the skinny tail lights from the rendering. Chassis is looking great, cant waint to see this baby on the ground!

[berdunord]

Beautiful !!!

[NWEBER540]

Built the fuel tank all aluminum with a Holley hydra mat

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Mishimoto dual pass radiator, 2 dual pass oil coolers and ac condenser mounted up

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Custom hood hinges built and installed still need finish welding

[Crestronwizard]

Still love this build:)