Ideas for Chassis Work.

[DSMsamurai666]

I'm working on a 1G project right now. I have stripped my 92' GSX and I have it sitting on jackstands. I still have to get the front half shafts and the rear axle off, but other than that its stripped inside and out. My plan is to finish my chassis over the winter and have it rolling by spring. I am going to shave off the rusty crushed lip underneath the car on each side and cover it with a strip of stainless. I'm also going to sand the inside and out. Build a custom roll cage, and then weld it in. Then I'm going to primer the whole chassis and paint it white. When I get done with the car it will be a track car only and I'm only putting the front interior back together. No headliner, no A Pillars, no stock seat belts. I was thinking about cutting out the frames in the back for the rear interior trim pieces and cutting out the rear deck with the hump for the spare and welding in a flat stainless floor. I'll mount my NOS back there maybe. I'm really just finishing the tear down work now. I'd like to get some ideas from anyone with experience whose done this or seen these kind of DSM builds. Even some pics of other guys' cars would be nice. I appreciate any opinions or advice from anyone who might be interested. Thanks for the help. I plan on posting some update photos every now and again once I get started on some real work so I get more advice.

 

[just2asian]

your project definitely sounds very doable. One thing I would suggest is, if you're trying to strip some weight from the vehicle I would get a hold of some dry ice and put it on the sound deadening material and then chisel it away with a hammer and long screwdriver or chisel.

If you have any experience on welding, it would stitch weld the chassis to make it slightly more rigid. I'm not sure if you're going to make it a 1/4 car or a road course vehicle, but either way it will give the chassis a little more stability and less flex.

Cutting out the spare tire well is very doable and i believe many people have done it. you could also drop the tank and do a fuel cell as well if you wanna drop some weight.

I don't have any pics of previous builds, but I have seen many. but everything that you're mentioning is very doable and shouldn't be too hard at all as long as you have fabrication skills. Good luck on your build!

 

[DSMsamurai666]

Sound deadening's already done and I was planning on going with a fuel cell. I've heard of welding work to strengthen the chassis. Could you elaborate on that stitch welding? For for the reply.

 

[just2asian]

from what I've seen, I've seen people take like the seams on the body of the vehicle, mostly inside the vehicle, after striping out the sound deadening material you get a welder and just run spots of weld where body panels meet. If you look for the joints you'll see them you usually see like 1 weld with a bunch of putty of something like that between two pieces of metal. What they will usually do is just take where the panels meet and run beads of weld down the seam, not completely welding it, but just reinforcing it. roughly about an inch apart per weld. If you do a good search i'm sure you can find some sites with info about it, I would provide a link but I'm currently out of the country and half the websites I can't even have access too. Damn Great firewall of China.