'Back Burner' Chevelle chassis.

[pav8427]

The pics shown are of a 'bolt in' tube chassis that I have built for my 65 Chevelle SS.
Honestly I have been in the mind set to send it down the road(with my other projects) and by a real nice driver 'project';)
I have owned the car for 20 yrs. And started the chassis back when Jeff Smith ran his 'stock' 65 in triathalons against Porches.
An opportunity to have this chassis completly re engineered has got me goin if ya know what I mean.
Recently the shop where I work, hired a college senior Mech Eng. student to help with the numerous projects in the works.
One of this young man's requirement's for graduation is a major project.
His team of three seniors has to design and analyze something.
And they have agreed to use my chassis as a project, if there advisor approves.
I designed this mostly on the fly and on paper(lots of sketches) I did us Performance Trends for the front set up.
What I would like to ask is, other than all the obvious suspension pick up points,spindles, rack and pinion, panhard bar etc.
What other points would one use for initial set up in Solidworks for proper testing and articulation? IE Center of gravity,IC,Ackerman points,Anti dive geo.etc.
I am not a CAD guy but have been around it long enough to know that, correct me if I am wrong please, if one takes into consideration
the relationship of pivot points at the start of the design process early, its easier than going back in your models and changing.
Does one set up all of these points at which the suspension acts in there first layout or can one do it in seperate models and combine them at a later date?
My CAD guys have even zero suspension interest/hobbies, so I would like to be able to atleast point them in the right direction.

Thanks in advance.



Doug

[Bryce]

You can combine models and add constraints at any time. Every sepereate moving part needs to be its own individual part in the CAD program so that the kinematics are correct.