This is a '66 Nova race/ street car that I am working on for a customer. He plans to run it in the 255-15 tire size Rodz class.
Here is the car:
Here are the Tires:
The car will have a '69 Chevelle 12 bolt that will be narrowed to 54 1/2". The rear end will get a set of 33 spline Dutchman axles:
This is the housing end that uses a 9" Ford style bearing to eliminate the C-clips that retain the stock axles:
The length of housing tube and the old bearing end are cut off:
The new housing end is aligned with a housing jig:
The new housing end is welded in place:
The tires fit into the wheel wells, but the left side tire was rubbing the leaf spring. I decided that the best plan was to in-board the leaf springs about 2" to gain the clearance needed.
I cut out the stock front spring perches and built some out of 4" x .125" steel plate. The new spring boxes would better clear the Cal-Tracs bars that the car will be running:
I bent up some offset shackles to move the rear of the leafs in-board as well:
The new spring boxes are used to anchor the 2 x 2" x .120" wall subframe connectors:
Since the car will also be getting an 8 point roll bar, I will be tying the rocker area to the subframe connectors with a piece of 2" x 4" x .120" rectangular tubing "kickers". The roll bar will weld to the 2 x 4 tubing. This is far stronger that welding the roll bars to floor plates most roll bar utilize.
A couple of slots are cut into the floor to allow the 2 x 4 kickers to protrude through:
The kicker will need some profiling to make it fit into it's new home:
Herer is the kicker in place ready to be welded:
Here is the car:
Here are the Tires:
The car will have a '69 Chevelle 12 bolt that will be narrowed to 54 1/2". The rear end will get a set of 33 spline Dutchman axles:
This is the housing end that uses a 9" Ford style bearing to eliminate the C-clips that retain the stock axles:
The length of housing tube and the old bearing end are cut off:
The new housing end is aligned with a housing jig:
The new housing end is welded in place:
The tires fit into the wheel wells, but the left side tire was rubbing the leaf spring. I decided that the best plan was to in-board the leaf springs about 2" to gain the clearance needed.
I cut out the stock front spring perches and built some out of 4" x .125" steel plate. The new spring boxes would better clear the Cal-Tracs bars that the car will be running:
I bent up some offset shackles to move the rear of the leafs in-board as well:
The new spring boxes are used to anchor the 2 x 2" x .120" wall subframe connectors:
Since the car will also be getting an 8 point roll bar, I will be tying the rocker area to the subframe connectors with a piece of 2" x 4" x .120" rectangular tubing "kickers". The roll bar will weld to the 2 x 4 tubing. This is far stronger that welding the roll bars to floor plates most roll bar utilize.
A couple of slots are cut into the floor to allow the 2 x 4 kickers to protrude through:
The kicker will need some profiling to make it fit into it's new home:
Herer is the kicker in place ready to be welded:
