64 Studebaker Lark Daytona

[RS_Customs]

Looking good!



Robert

[wellis77]

Looking real good!

[Bryce]

Its getting there!

[aussietony]

Any updates re this build?

[PhillipM]

Hey Tony,

I have been working on it slowly but seems like things are popping up left and right. I started a new job in January, have been fixing my Camaro and helping my fiance plan our wedding. We should start to see some updates again soon. The aluminum is at the CNC guy for the front spindles and Bart has finished up another Mustang that he did the front suspension on. Hopefully I will start seeing some front suspension parts showing up. The rear is almost finished as well and we have been "blind staring" at the front half of the car to invision that part of the cage. Thanks for hanging in ther guys!

[Bryce]

Im excited to see the front suspension!

[PhillipM]

Hey Guys... I got a few more minutes to work on the Stude last weekend and thought I would share a couple photos. I got the triangulation bar mocked up on the frame side of the panhard bar mount. Also, I decided to test fit the gas tank and am glad I did.. I didn't realize how little room I had!









Thats it for now

[Bryce]

Nice!

[Motorcitydak]

How's that Powertour 2011 thing lookin for ya?

[PhillipM]

Yeah, once we found out the wedding was the same week as power tour I stopped beating myself up so hard to make progress on it. Now I'm chigging away on it but at a much slower pace.

[454bug]

VERY NICE PHILLIP!!

The car will be there after you get married... Make the bride happy.

[puddin head]

Anything happening lately??

[PhillipM]

Now that Arizona Bike Week is finished and my 14 hour days have stopped I can again focus on this. I just received the final rear suspension piece that I needed. I have had that front 3rd link mock up mount in there for a while and I just couldn't figure out a good way to make it work. So, I finally found a premade piece that I just have to weld up and attach to the frame rail. It came from one of these 4 wheel drive outfits that make fabrication parts. Once that is throughly tacked on I plan to move forward with the rest of the roll cage as well as borrow my buddies LS2 and continue mocking up the front suspension. The LS6 that I had in there is getting some upgrades and will soon sit in our F85..

[ArtosDracon]

Glad to see it's not just gathering dust! This is really one of my favorite builds.

[PhillipM]

Thanks Robert!

[PhillipM]

Okay I finally found a bracket that I can modify and make work for my upper 3rd link mount. I started mocking it up tonight and though it still needs some work I'm actually jazzed about how it has started to turn out.. I may rotate the mount a little counter clockwise but to get my angles right I need it to be at the Z height it is at. At the moment I threw a piece of 2x2 in there and if that is what I need I plan to trim it down and smooth it out to look better.

[preston]

I'd try to put an insert into the frame tube itself so the bolt can go through the outerbracket and rod end and then thread into the bung in the framerail. That would be very stout. Alternatively I guess you would just gussett the bracket onto the frame rail which is probably what you were going to do anyway. Ideally of course its nice to have some adjustability on both ends of the link but for where you're trying to land it that's probably not very feasible.

[PhillipM]

I'd try to put an insert into the frame tube itself so the bolt can go through the outerbracket and rod end and then thread into the bung in the framerail. That would be very stout. Alternatively I guess you would just gussett the bracket onto the frame rail which is probably what you were going to do anyway. Ideally of course its nice to have some adjustability on both ends of the link but for where you're trying to land it that's probably not very feasible.

I was actually thinking that this would be fairly strong.. I do plan to try and use all 3 holes in this mount but you definitely have me thinking that I need to strengthen it up some more. I like your idea of going through to the frame rail but I agree that doing that and keeping the adjustability is would be pretty difficult.

[Chevelle LT1]

Philip - Glad to see that work is progressing on your ride; it's been entertaining watching it come together thus far.

~ Jason

[Motorcitydak]

That upper bracket will be more than strong enough. Those things can put up to some ridiculous amounts of abuse and it is over engineered for your application which is a good thing here. That upper will more than likely only see 2-3000 pounds of force be that in tension (acceleration) or compression (braking). If the geometry is good, burn it into place and move on. The only thing I see that alarms me about those pics is the amount of threads showing on the rod ends. How much is in the tube adapters? Are you planning to cut another longer piece of tube for that link?