Do Chevettes have a frame or are they unibodies?
Dan
Do Chevettes have a frame or are they unibodies?
Dan
Unibody...
engineered by OPEL, unibody
'K. The big block is off the table I guess....
Nottrue, big blocks fit on tables, but under the hood is bettar.
Don't forget that Hot Rod mag did an article about a 500" Caddy in a Chevette. I'm not sure why.
Why? Because it has Steve Magnante written all over it.
cwh wrote: Don't forget that Hot Rod mag did an article about a 500" Caddy in a Chevette. I'm not sure why.
Yeah, they shoved it under the cowling, cutting out the trans tunnel. If I had any idea where my copy of that mag went, I'd read it again. But I do know that they used the most sketchy rear suspension I'd ever seen.
Indeed. They put a pinto/mustangII rearend under it (8" I guess). They cut the leaf springs in half and used them as lower control arms. It was really "sketchy" to say the least.
The transmisssion tailhousing was held to the crossmember with a hose clamp too. They made a big deal in the article that this sort of stuff was not to be replicated by the general public. Riiiight.
Clem
I may be cheap... but I would never resort to hose clamps for anything but securing hoses
mad_machine wrote: I may be cheap... but I would never resort to hose clamps for anything but securing hoses
I'd at least step it up to a ratchet strap.
In reply to ClemSparks:
They used Ford F150 leafs for the arms, that I do remember. They just clamped the hell out of them. Then welded the coil spring perches on top, and grafted the panhard rod mount onto the 8".
Turning it into a....2 link rear suspension? Swingarm? Kinda scary.
(found the article as a .pdf )
ScottRA21 wrote: In reply to ClemSparks: They used Ford F150 leafs for the arms, that I do remember. They just clamped the hell out of them. Then welded the coil spring perches on top, and grafted the panhard rod mount onto the 8". Turning it into a....2 link rear suspension? Swingarm? Kinda scary. (found the article as a .pdf )
It's a very low-buck, old school drag racer trick called a leaf-link suspension. Problem is, you're supposed to build an axle floater and top link into the system as well and It sounds like they didn't do that.
Shawn
Nope, not from what I read/saw.
But they did do it for under $2k....
It had a 50/50 weight distro...
Big Block Chevette Challenge car?
This belongs to a guy on one of the Trans-Am forums I moderate: http://www.highperformancepontiac.com/features/hppp_0903_1985_pontiac_t1000/index.html
An all Pontiac T-1000
Shawn
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