COT Chassis pics!

[Tig Man]

I went by the chassis shop I used to work at and shot some of these if you've never seen them in person!

Mark

[Samckitt]

Hey Tig Man, where did you used to work?

[Tig Man]

Laughlin Racing Products in Simpsonville SC. Then with the 4 car Kodak team for 15 years and Johnny Miller in the Trans-Am series.

[chassisguy]

Damn how did you clean that metal?

[Samckitt]

Laughlin Racing Products in Simpsonville SC. Then with the 4 car Kodak team for 15 years and Johnny Miller in the Trans-Am series.

That would be awesome, my dream job.

[Tig Man]

The frame rail tubing is Oiled and Pickeled, no miil scale. The roll cage tubing is ground seamless DOM! Which means the O.D. is ground to make it a consistant wall thickness, making the tubing somewhat lighter and dang nice to weld!

Mark

[Kenova]

I couldn't help but notice the extreme angle of the lower control arm mounting points. Now I'm bending my brain trying to figure out how it affects alignment setting during compression and rebound :sick: , and it hurts.

Ken

[novaderrik]

Laughlin Racing Products in Simpsonville SC. Then with the 4 car Kodak team for 15 years and Johnny Miller in the Trans-Am series.

my mom's fiance's cousin's husband (sounds convoluted, but it's who he is. i forget his name, but he lives about a mile from me) used to make headers for the Kodak car when Sterling (i think) drove it. i think he still goes down to NC and makes headers for that team (Ganassi?) every winter.

[Tig Man]

Gerold Reinhart ot Mark Linebarrier. The lower control mounts use adjustable slugs to alter the position without having to change the whole front clip as you would do in the old days!

Mark

[chassisguy]

The frame rail tubing is Oiled and Pickeled, no miil scale. The roll cage tubing is ground seamless DOM! Which means the O.D. is ground to make it a consistant wall thickness, making the tubing somewhat lighter and dang nice to weld!

Mark
Oiled and pickeled?

[Tig Man]

http://www.jackson-tube.com/materials.htm

http://www.mcnichols.com/products/productsupportfiles/materialdesc.htm

http://www.mysteelagent.com/products/products-Hot_Pickled_Oiled_Steel.php

[chassisguy]

gotcha i always referred to it as coldrolled, i just never heard those terms before

[BrianP]

what does COT stand for?

[Tig Man]

Car Of Tomorrow!! Nascar crap!!

[69keith]

car of today now...

[B Schein]

These cars are silly where is all the floatation foam.

[trapin]

It's the car that drove the final nail in the coffin of a once great racing series.

[JEFFTATE]

The welding is top notch !

[HarleyR]

We bought alot of cars/trucks from Laughlin..... won alot of races too... Sad what happened to MMM I drove by it last week on my way to Bristol... I guess that team represented what I like and dislike most about racing Small family run team.... Had their success and NASCAR sh&t on them....

[shortrack]

Cool shots Tig Man!......who's MMM?......Morgan McClure?

[silver69camaro]

Oiled and pickeled?

Same stuff we use. Very good quality and easy to work with.

[shortrack]

Tig Man - would you know where I would find the camber specs on the rearend of my Cup car (see signiture line), arnt they supposed to be stamped into it somewhere, I cant seem to find them.......doug

[Tig Man]

Should be on the outer snout that is welded in the housing below the seal race.

[ITLBTU]

Cool pics, but I hate what Brian France has done to NASCAR. I wasn't excited about the IROC series, and I'm now even less excited about NASCAR now. Before the chase, I went to 7 Cup races in one year. I haven't been to a race in 3 years now. We sell our season tickets at Ca Speedway every year on Ebay. I used to race NASCAR LMS and I loved it. I've met several drivers, had garage passes. Now I hardly watch them on TV. I think I've watched 3 races on TV this year. Sorry to rant....

[Tig Man]

Politics and big money have ruined a once great thing!!

Mark

[1969 Mach Five]

Thank you Tig Man. I saw the road test of the COT in Car and Driver, very cool to see the chassis like this.