NEW Roadster Shop "Fast Track" Chassis

[Roadster Shop]

Introducing the new "Fast Track" chassis line up fromt he Roadster Shop.

Each chassis is built around our new "Fast Track" IFS to be he ultimate pro-touring package.

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Construction• Over 75 Individual Components Specifically Machined or Fabricated for this Application. Not a Single off the Shelf Part has Been Used
• Acetyl GP Bushings with 660 Bronze Oiled Sleeves for Maximum Performance and Zero Deflection Compared to the Industry Standard, Polyurethane.
• Double Sheared and Gusseted Brackets for Added Strength
• Grade 8 Hardware Standard
• Positive and Negative Jounce Bumpers to Protect Coilovers from Excessive Abuse
• 7075 T-651 Billet Aluminum Steering Arms for Strength and Weight Reduction
• 4041 Pre-Hardened Control Arm Mounts
• Completely TIG Welded for strength and appearance

Performance• Controlled Roll Center
• Built in Caster and Camber Street Settings, Easily Adjustable for Track Set Ups
• Optimal Motion Ratio for Accurate Spring Ratings
• Light Weight Components for Lowest Unsprung Weight With Out Sacrificing Strength
• C6 Corvette Spindles, Hubs and Lower Ball Joints
• Performance Improvements over Stock Corvette Geometry
o Increased Negative Camber Gains
o Increased Wheel Clearance (to Control Arms)
o Increased Strength
o Drastically Reduced Bushing Deflection

Installation• Lowered Steering Rack for Additional Oil Pan Clearance
• Available in a Standard or Narrowed Track Width for Lowered Vehicles or Wide Front Wheels
• User Friendly, Serviceable Design.
• Easy Adjustment and Access of Steering Rack, Sway Bar, and Coilovers
• Reverse Mounted Upper Control Arm for Simple Caster and Camber Adjustments
• Streamlined Crossmember for Maximum Ground Clearance and Minimal Visibility

Each chassis is year, make, and model specific designed with the builder in mind. Stance, tire sizes, engine location and clearances, exhaust routing and clearances, weight, and installation have all been carefully taken into account. Chassis are designed to use stock body mounts, bumper mounts, and core support mounts to ease the installation. Models designed for cars originally built on a full frame will be direct bolt up with no body modifications. Models built for unibody cars will require varying levels of floor modification depending on the car. All chassis have been built and test fit on original, solid cars to guarantee the best fit.

Current Models:
1953-62 Corvette
1955-57 Chevy
1955-59 Chevy Pick Up
1967-72 C10 Chevy Pick Up
1967-69 Camaro
1970-81 Camaro
1962-67 Nova
1970-74 Challenger/Cuda
1964-70 Mustang
1964-74 Chevelle/GTO (GM A Body)
Universal Front Clip
Universal Front Crossmember

Coming Soon:
1958-64 Impala
1968-74 Nova
Vehicle Specific Front Subframes

All chassis and suspension components are in full production and ready for delivery. Dealer inquiries welcome. Please email [email protected] to find out about dealer opportunities.

[Roadster Shop]

1967-69 Camaro Chassis:


Designed with minimal floor modification to retain 95% of the stock floor.
Ride height is 1" - 2" lower than current sub-frame kits available.
Maximum strength of a TRUE chassis to eliminate body flexing.
Utilizes stock front bumper, core support, and front body mounts.
Rear frame rail bolts into the stock spring hanger to easily align the chassis with body.
Accomodate a 275-295 front tire on a 10" rim and a 345 rear tire on a 12" rim
Retains stock gas tank


http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/691.jpg

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Only floor modifications required are a notch in the rear foot well and a pocket for the upper 4-bar. (Rough cut in this picture to allow room to work and fit suspension/brackets. Actual cuts can be much tighter to the chassis)
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/692.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/694.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/695.jpg

Sitting about 1.5" higher than actual ride height will be. Rear tire is 29.8" tall in this picture. The chassis was designed with a 28" tall rear tire. There is also no weight on the car)
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/696.jpg

[Moose]

would love this for my car. 95% sure its way out of my price range though!

awesome!:hail:

[Roadster Shop]

1970-81 Camaro Chassis


4.5" - 5" ride height with full turning radius of a 275 front tire
Maximum strength of a TRUE chassis to eliminate body flexing.
Utilizes stock front bumper, core support, and front body mounts.
Rear frame rail follow stock floor to retain a complete stock trunk floor
Accomodate a 275-295 front tire on a 10" rim and a 345 rear tire on a 12" rim
Dropped center crossmember for a dropped floor
Front rails stepped in to utilize stock front fender lower mounts


(Will have a drop out trans crossmember that was not installed at time of picture)
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/701.jpg

Stock body mount at cowl is used. Frame rail kicked in to utilize stock fender mounts
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/702.jpg

Ride height mock ups.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/703.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/704.jpg

[Roadster Shop]

1962-67 Nova


Utilizes stock bumper and core support mounts.
Exhaust ports and easy routing for 3" exhaust
Narrowed track width
275-295 FRONT TIRE AND STILL HAVE FULL TURNING RADIUS!
345 rear tire on a 12" rim
4" - 5" ride height (at the rockers)


http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/Nova3.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/Nova1.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/Nova2.jpg

[GoolsbyCustoms]

Great work as usual but when are yall gonna do one for a Nova

[Ron in SoCal]

Great work as usual but when are yall gonna do one for a Nova

Huh??

[rjsjea]

Makes me wanna go out and buy an early Nova right now.........dang

[Roadster Shop]

Great work as usual but when are yall gonna do one for a Nova

Haha!:lol: Re-read my post above yours. By the time you are finished re-reading it I promise I'll have the pictures up! :thumbsup:

[Vegas69]

Good stuff, I bet you have a few companies sweating bullets right about now.

[Musclerodz]

What is ground clearance to your chassis at ride height? IE how much below the rockers are they?

[GoolsbyCustoms]

Huh??

sorry that was a little inside joke to pick at Phil

[Roadster Shop]

What is ground clearance to your chassis at ride height? IE how much below the rockers are they?

The ride height depends on the chassis. The lowest point on all chassis is the front crossmember. With a 26" tall front tire, the bottom of the front crossmember is 4-7/8" off the ground.

Ride Heights at rocker panels:

Based off a 26" front and 28" rear tire.
There is variance in these numbers due to adjustability of the coilovers and the differences from front to rear. Tire size will also play a role in this.
Chassis that will require fabricating a new main floor section (Nova and 2nd Gen) can really be moved up or down on the frame to the desired ride height
.


1st Gen Camaro: 6" - 7"
2nd Gen Camaro: 4.5" - 6" (2nd gen in earlier pictures is set at 4.5" at front of rocker and 5.5" at rear)
Nova: 4" - 6" (Red patina'd nova in previous pics is at 4.5" front and 5" rear. Bare steel nova on the table is at 4" front and 5")
55-57 Chevy: 6", can be made lower if desired
67-72 C10 Pick Up: 5" front, 7" rear (with a 27" tall front and 30.5" tall rear tire)
Mustang: 5" - 6" (could be lower, but had to be raised for 5.0L and 5.4L height clearance)

[Roadster Shop]

We have been receiving a lot of calls and great questions. We have not been able to update our web site yet (hopefully next week) so I will answer a few of the questions that I have been getting here.

Due to clearance issues, 2nd Gen Camaro's and Nova's require fabricating a new main floor section and channeling the body over the chassis. The 2nd Gen Camaro can retain the stock trunk floor.

Rear suspension will be a parallel 4-link as a standard set up. We are offering a triangulated 4-link and a 3 link with Watt's Link. (I will try to post pics shortly). Both will require floor modifications.

Mustang chassis eliminates the complete front inner structure. a 2" channel needs to be cut on each side of the floor along the rocker and the body then slides onto the chassis retaining the rest of the stock floor.

Chassis are available with a narrowed rear housing and axles to run a 12" wide wheel or a wider housing to run a 9" or 10" wide wheel and retain the stock wheel houses. This is a no charge option.

Base price for the chassis is $15,495 as shown in all of the pictures. From a pricing stand point, this is very close to many of the higher end front/rear sub-frame packages and requires less fab work on cars that retain the stock floor. Pricing is on our web site for all the options, but pictures and information is not up to date. Please feel free to call or email with specific questions.

We are professional car builders as well as chassis builders. There has been a great amount of thought that has gone into each of these chassis to think about all of those things later on down the line that we have all run into in the past. Each chassis is specifically tailored to each model of car. Because each car is different, a 1-size fits all approach was never an option. Small things like locating stock body mounts, bumper mounts, and core support mounts for each car play a huge role in the build process. Also maximizing the use of the original floors in the unibody cars was a major goal to again ease the installation process.

[carbuff]

We are professional car builders as well as chassis builders. There has been a great amount of thought that has gone into each of these chassis to think about all of those things later on down the line that we have all run into in the past. Each chassis is specifically tailored to each model of car. Because each car is different, a 1-size fits all approach was never an option. Small things like locating stock body mounts, bumper mounts, and core support mounts for each car play a huge role in the build process. Also maximizing the use of the original floors in the unibody cars was a major goal to again ease the installation process.

This product looks great, and I look forward to continued new information and pictures. I do have one question though, hopefully you can summarize for me...

Why is it that a full-frame can be developed for the 1st gen unibody but not the 2nd gen? To be fair, I haven't been under a 1st gen for a long time, so I don't really remember what the floor looks like. I am curious where the problem spots are on a 2nd gen.

Thanx!

[coolwelder62]

wow!! really nice product's.:thumbsup:

[strtcar]

any pics of mustang chassis?

[66LS7]

Awesome looking chassis's Phil & Jeremy!
:thumbsup:

[Roadster Shop]

Here are a few pics of the 55-57 Chevy chassis

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/Tri51.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/Tri52.jpg

At ride height.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/IMG_0257-1.jpg

[Roadster Shop]

Here are a few shots of the 69 Mustang at ride height. I did not get any good pictures of the first few chassis built, but we have another going together now that should be completed shortly. I'll get pictures up as soon as it is completed.

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/Picture10448.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/Picture10442.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/Picture10450.jpg

This is the modification to the floor that is required. A 2" strip cut out where the floor meets the rocker. (Picture was taken of the driver side. Door open, shooting towards the front of the car.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/Picture9225.jpg

[tones2SS]

Killer work guys!!! I'm digging them.:thumbsup: :cheers:
Any pics of the '70 Chevelle chassis? (No biggie if not readily available.)

[Nick.V70]

Killer work guys!!! I'm digging them.:thumbsup: :cheers:
Any pics of the '70 Chevelle chassis? (No biggie if not readily available.)

I can't go to sleep without looking at this car :_paranoid

http://www.norcaltruck.com/01_misc_pic/misc/Chevelles/70_Red_RS/Chevelle18.png

http://www.norcaltruck.com/01_misc_pic/misc/Chevelles/70_Red_RS/Chevelle9.png


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[DFRESH]

Phil, I'm going to be in touch with you----I can't believe you can get that ride height on the 69 with full travel and that big of a tire. Freaking outstanding job man---that is just amazing.

Doug

[BANKO]

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/Nova2.jpg

A few questions on your Chevy II frame:

How much was the track width reduced in the front to achieve a full turning radius? Also, what are the wheel specs on the red Chevy II, it looks like 18" in the front and 22" in the rear? It looks like the front wheels are inset by 2" or 3". Do you have any front on pictures of this car showing the narrowed track width?

Thanks, Josh

[tones2SS]

I can't go to sleep without looking at this car :_paranoid

I can see why!!! WOW!:wow: :faint:
Thanks for the pics Nick.:cheers:

[Nick.V70]

I can see why!!! WOW!:wow: :faint:
Thanks for the pics Nick.:cheers:


:lol: A Chevelle owners dream right there.



I have to say for what you get I think the price is right. I am spending a ton of money on my cars suspension and really if I did it all over again at once I would be looking at one of these turn key packages. All the guess work and typical issues and or dilemmas faced are made easy. If I am fortunate to build another car one day I will be looking more so something like this. Great looking product RS :thumbsup:

[Roadster Shop]

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss79/RS-Perf/Chassis/Nova2.jpg

A few questions on your Chevy II frame:

How much was the track width reduced in the front to achieve a full turning radius? Also, what are the wheel specs on the red Chevy II, it looks like 18" in the front and 22" in the rear? It looks like the front wheels are inset by 2" or 3". Do you have any front on pictures of this car showing the narrowed track width?

Thanks, Josh

The track width has been narrowed to 54". The suspension geometry is the same as the wider track version to maintain the performance aspect. The frame rails have been brought in and the crossmember has been narrowed to accomplish this.

The red Nova has 18x10's with 255 or 265 tires and 20x12's with a 335/30R20 on the rear. The front wheels are not the correct back space, they were just something we had laying around. I think they are a 8" or 9" back spacing on a 10" rim. I believe the wheels can be pushed out closer to the fender slightly. In order to have room for the front wheels to turn fully, the wheels do need some room though. Sorry, I don't have any front end shots of that car with wheels on it.

[Roadster Shop]

Nick, thanks for the props on our cars and chassis. Looks like you are off to a pretty good start on your Chevelle as well. You are 100% correct on the amount of labor that goes into an original frame. when you add up the parts and labor the difference in price between repairing the original vs. purchasing a new chassis is shockingly small. In the end, you are really limited by the stock frame's dimensions and suspension mounting points.

Give me a call or email if we can help you out on your next project.

-Phil

[wellis77]

On the 70-81 frame, is the center section built from 1"x3" tube? Are you able to use the stock floor with that size tube? How wide does the hump end up being with the exhaust and drive shaft going through it? Beautiful work on those.

[T-Type]

just out of curiousity.....any idea when the impala chassis' will be available?

[tones2SS]

:lol: A Chevelle owners dream right there.



I have to say for what you get I think the price is right. I am spending a ton of money on my cars suspension and really if I did it all over again at once I would be looking at one of these turn key packages. All the guess work and typical issues and or dilemmas faced are made easy. If I am fortunate to build another car one day I will be looking more so something like this. Great looking product RS :thumbsup:

I totally agree Nick. If I do a Chevelle as opposed to a Camaro, I would definitely look into this chassis. Like you said, all the guess work and typical issues are already met head on and corrected.:thumbsup: :cheers: