My 69 Chevelle NASCAR Project

[shortrack]

It backed out of the driveway today. brakes, cooling, charging systems all ok,

Crank it up its LOUD

[avewhtboy]

Wow that sounds like a beast, love this project!

[SD455]

It backed out of the driveway today. brakes, cooling, charging systems all ok,

Crank it up its LOUD



Sweet Jesus!!! That is awesome, lets go for a ride!!!

Sweet Jesus!!! That is awesome, lets go for a ride!!!

[dangina]

It backed out of the driveway today. brakes, cooling, charging systems all ok,

Crank it up its LOUD

YESSSS!!!! Car sounds awesome!!!

[MSTSFabbed]

My gosh that is awesome!!!! Keep at it!

[ngrybrd]

Holy crap this is awesome, ive been perusing this forum for a while just learning and getting ideas. i was looking for fuel cell/chassis info for my GTO build and stumbled on this. so i finally had to register. my god its amazing. i dont know if i have the balls to try it, but its certainly worth a road trip to pick up stock car roller just to have. NASCAR is one of my favorite things on the planet, and at that price for a roller nascar, that purchases all of the huge ticket items all at once, just alot of work getting the body to fit (or i could adapt parts to my car?) but man you did a beautiful job, you must've had the biggest smile on your face throwing it in reverse to get her into the daylight for the first time! cant wait to see it finished.

[shortrack]

Holy crap this is awesome, ive been perusing this forum for a while just learning and getting ideas. i was looking for fuel cell/chassis info for my GTO build and stumbled on this. so i finally had to register. my god its amazing. i dont know if i have the balls to try it, but its certainly worth a road trip to pick up stock car roller just to have. NASCAR is one of my favorite things on the planet, and at that price for a roller nascar, that purchases all of the huge ticket items all at once, just alot of work getting the body to fit (or i could adapt parts to my car?) but man you did a beautiful job, you must've had the biggest smile on your face throwing it in reverse to get her into the daylight for the first time! cant wait to see it finished.

Yes sir it's been a long road!. When I let out the clutch going forward I really didnt know what was going to happen! lol

[Bob in St. Louis]

I know this is rude (but I'll ask anyway), how much was teh original race car?
I've looked through teh entire thread, (admittedly skimming the text) but didn't see.

[shortrack]

I know this is rude (but I'll ask anyway), how much was teh original race car?
I've looked through teh entire thread, (admittedly skimming the text) but didn't see.

Its there....$2500

[Bob in St. Louis]

Thank you. That's an incredible price.
I've never looked (on a serious basis), but the ones I've seen have a "one" in front of that number.
Well done Sir!

[shortrack]

I've never looked (on a serious basis), but the ones I've seen have a "one" in front of that number.
Well done Sir!

Go to www.racingjunk.com they are there. not often but they are.

[ngrybrd]

Do you have any more pics or a description of the rear suspension? I figure buying a whole stock car is a pipe dream. But it seems used nascar parts are cheap. And research shows how awesome a truck arm system works. So anything you can offer would be great. Please correct me if I'm wrong as far as I can tell based on what parts I can buy. The truck arms bolt at one end to a cross member. And bolt to the axle housing with essentially a leaf spring perch and a thick u bolt. The shock mounts to the truck arm behind the axle housing. Then a coil spring cup bolts to the truck arm in front of the axle housing, then the Coil spring sits on that. On top is another cup with a jack screw pushing down on it threaded through essentially a nut welded on the chassis? And to keep it centered is a Panhard bar or watts link Is that right? I found a company hotrod to hell (or something like that)that sells a kit for 2k but I think I can buy used nascar parts and do the whole thing for about 600. What ya think?

[shortrack]

Do you have any more pics or a description of the rear suspension? I figure buying a whole stock car is a pipe dream. But it seems used nascar parts are cheap. And research shows how awesome a truck arm system works. So anything you can offer would be great. Please correct me if I'm wrong as far as I can tell based on what parts I can buy. The truck arms bolt at one end to a cross member. And bolt to the axle housing with essentially a leaf spring perch and a thick u bolt. The shock mounts to the truck arm behind the axle housing. Then a coil spring cup bolts to the truck arm in front of the axle housing, then the Coil spring sits on that. On top is another cup with a jack screw pushing down on it threaded through essentially a nut welded on the chassis? And to keep it centered is a Panhard bar or watts link Is that right? I found a company hotrod to hell (or something like that)that sells a kit for 2k but I think I can buy used nascar parts and do the whole thing for about 600. What ya think?

Post 128 has a bunch of pics of the rear susp. It can be done Ron did it https://www.pro-touring.com/threads/...budget-Mustang

[ngrybrd]

ya post 128 is where i got the info to kinda formulate my description. from your pictures and what parts i found for sale did i get close? also thanks for the link to rons build. thats sweet. ive got a mustang tattoo on my back, needless to say i dont think im going to get alot of work done today!

[pro68chevelle]

I have a complete truck arm set up for sale if anyone is interested. Brand new!

Scott

[ngrybrd]

Pm sent

[Bob in St. Louis]

Perfect, thank you!

[ConductorKane]

Amazing build! I'm sure it was nice to turn that key and hear it come to life.

[shortrack]

Got it up on the trailer last Sunday. A little scraping of exhaust but it made it. It has never been up there before. Have to weld on some loops for tie downs to the rear frame rails and put some D rings on the trailer, nothing too big. 4500lb winch I bought from Costco for $50!! didnt even breathe hard and it didnt rip the front bumper off! lol

[Bob in St. Louis]

Dude, that's awesome.