Project: Love 69 - My Corvette Build Thread

[vette427-sbc]

Finished plumbing the ABS (minus the F/R inputs)


Beginning mock up of my rear ST40's... plan so far is to use a C5 Corvette front rotor and an IPSCO spot caliper for parking brake

[the dan]

yo kiddd, get a bettah camera!

[2ndroundko]

yo kiddd, get a bettah camera!

Lmbo! But for real though

[vette427-sbc]

Corvette> new phone
Horrible quality pics will hopefully be ending soon
I have my other guy at the shop take pictures on his phone then send them to me for the time being...
3D printed C4 corvette Stoptech ST40 caliper bracket for mock up

[vette427-sbc]

Brake lines complete... next up is fuel line. Trying to figure out how to run (2) -8 hardlines around cage mounts, through crossmembers, away from suspension parts AND be serviceable with the body on the car is proving to be a bit difficult!

[the dan]

Body-off brake line service is mint!

[vette427-sbc]

ABS bracket from DMP Fab showed up... Aluminum bracket with a .030 heat shield underneath to protect from potential sidepipe heat. The abs unit will sit on a strip of rubber to help isolate from vibration





Fuel lines and tank mock up... Im using Earls pro-lite 350 -8 braided from the rear frame rail to the kickup. The plan so far for the tank is to have it come down to the bottom of the body and follow the body line as far back as possible to help seal off the open rear underside for aero. at 38x10x15 its just shy of 25 gallons.




Mockup hardline

[Aficionado]

So glad to see this project moving again--looking good!

[vette427-sbc]

Starting on belly pan tabs before I go any further with the (hard) fuel lines since I will be routing the lines around the tabs. Im using Dzus fasteners/plates/springs from Earls... They were the only company that I could find with a diagram on how to choose what parts would work together (ie: spring height w/ compression, plate sizing, fastener reach) They also have "lightweight" plates with a few extra holes in them. Am I being anal enough about weight yet??



The wood is just there for mockup purposes... The final pan material will be .25" carbon fiber honeycomb

So glad to see this project moving again--looking good!

Thanks! It feels good to be moving again!

[vette427-sbc]

These bends took much longer than I'd like to admit and they still arent perfect, but Id like to get the body back on soon so I think it will suffice considering it will never be seen...

[the dan]

Came out perfect! If you want. A bigger heat shield let me know. I should have taken into account the larger body

[vette427-sbc]

Came out perfect! If you want. A bigger heat shield let me know. I should have taken into account the larger body

You made the shield the correct size, I cut it down too small (whoops)
Im ready for fuel tank and brake bracket fab whenever youre ready!

[vette427-sbc]

Getting very close to final assembly! Got the last parts back from powdercoat; Picking up the frame from the bodyshop tomorrow morning. While waiting, I detailed and painted what I could.

Before I had it blasted and painted I had some steel tubing welded in with AN bungs so I could run the fuel lines through the frame. Under the crossmember would have been too low (and interfered with the belly pan) and over would have prevented me from ever removing the lines if I needed to once the body is on.




Removed all the casting seams and radiused (sp?) some of the sharp edges. Painted silver, and had the swaybar bracket powdercoated black


Control arms powdercoated


Hard to get a picture that represents the chassis color well... it looks slightly more gray than the photos show. Bumper brackets, chassis and firewall will be this color


Diff painted with Energy Suspension poly bushings installed



SKF rear wheel bearings/hubs were modified by DMP fab for 5/8 wheelstuds to match the front TrackStar hubs. They should be here shortly along with the final production StopTech caliper brackets

[vette427-sbc]

Picked up this morning, took a "personal day" to start assembly

[vette427-sbc]

little more progress...

[FLYNAVY53]

Nicely done....I dig the super clear routing! I've got a '64 that I'm about to dig into, to include the 4 wheels disc conversion. Unfortunately, with the body not coming off the frame, running clean brake and hard fuel lines to the rear is going to be a challenge.

[User-C3]

pumped to see the progress on your car.
makes me want to start all my frame mods and cage build. How long the car is down is the main thing keeping me from starting. I can only imagine how ready you are to drive it.

[timmytimm3]

Awesome ride! Dan does great work

[vette427-sbc]

DMP Fab (The Dan) just sent me some pictures of the competed brake/hub assembly... SKF hubs with Strange Engineering 5/8 studs, and custom ST40/ C5 rotor brake caliper bracket. Cant wait to get these in my hands and on the car!

Nicely done....I dig the super clear routing! I've got a '64 that I'm about to dig into, to include the 4 wheels disc conversion. Unfortunately, with the body not coming off the frame, running clean brake and hard fuel lines to the rear is going to be a challenge.

Thanks! I couldnt imagine doing this with the body on... I had a hard enough time doing it like this!

pumped to see the progress on your car.
makes me want to start all my frame mods and cage build. How long the car is down is the main thing keeping me from starting. I can only imagine how ready you are to drive it.

I am beyond ready to drive this thing... but I really enjoy the design and assembly of it as well. My one word of advice, buy a second frame and do the mods to that one so you can still drive the car! I should have done that with mine

Awesome ride! Dan does great work

Thanks! Dan is the only person Ive met that I can give him a project and I wont have to worry if its being done right... Everytime I get a part back from him its even better than I envisioned.

[vette427-sbc]

Getting closer!









(caliper is on the wrong side in pics!)