Jake mine is very different from what you are doing. Its being completely computer designed, all loads and stress tests are done inside a CAD program which will workout my final chassis design and produce drawings to satisfy engineer and licensing requirements. Basically we do the CAD and we can put it into a program for the Hydro-bender or CNC and out come the parts. I had never done an unlimited street build under ICV and because of the $$ I don't want regrets so this is radically different (new to me) from my normal hands on build as you go method.
Like others of my era I either would choose a proven theme or the often used variation of the winging-it build methodology. I am doing it this way so with luck I can try to avoid some of the traps that I have fallen into when adapting components to fit the chassis. Here the basic drive components that I wanted sit within the outer skin of a hatchback shape and then I building a full chassis,suspension and body mountings to suit the outer hatch shape that sits on the Forgeline wheels.This is a completely electronic controlled car that is something that as a mechanical guy is really foreign to me and it is taking some understanding as its even new ground in the usa hotrod world.
yeah i could put the chassis rails back in LXSS350 but it would cost a considerable amount of money to get it back to how it was
Back in the 80's with many variations of 427 BBC's we would just cut anything to get everything to fit. I know with all the cuts at least 4 of those cars had new high floors grafted in and although done well they could never be legally licensed even though we just drove them around like that. We didn't care because they where just torana's (common) and we hated the factory spec as they where slow pos, I just wanted them to be ultra fast street cars and legalities where just not an issue because we kept well away from Mr Plods hotspots.
I hope you can workout a viable solution to licence your car, but the rules don't make it easy or even make sense in many cases. Because of the rule limitations and my desires I have been forced into doing the ICV. With luck, a bucket of money and lots of time I hope this will be the
one car that keeps me satisfied with its performance. I have no interest in show cars or building one only in a cars performance. If you look at Marks 11th 1969 Camaro "Red Devil" in the video above he says it was over US$250k to build and that's in the USA where everything is cheap and far easier.
http://www.caranddri...-touring-reviewHis 13th new 69 Camaro is "Hellfire" which is close to US$350k and much faster and better again. Difference is that these are not show cars its a daily driving street and weekend racecar. Speed and building a better mousetrap can be very addictive.
Edited by LXSS350, 11 June 2014 - 01:48 AM.
but realisticly that amount of time would do me like a dinner.all i wanted was a car that i could show,jump in it whenever i wanted and take it down the black stuff,i wish i could start again and thought it all through instead of just listening to the engineer say yep,you can do these mods,would of saved a bundle in process,hopefully it all works out in the coming months and all is not lost, tomorrow i will try jl racecars in melb and see what he says...wow thats a great little clip of one tuff 69 camaro put the newby up on blocks lol
