Hey guys! I am purchasing a rpu from a member here and look forward to building another rod! Here is my question.............. Is there a specific place i can get ch***is drawings from? Shipping to an island is very expensive at best, and the a ch***is doesnt look very complicated.(i could be very off base here ) I am considering going pro street, but not totally convinced of this......... maybe wide whites! Does anyone have or know of drawings that can be obtained to help me in this? I hate to have to fork out higher shipping than the ch***is cost!! thanks happy rodding!
I don't know what the price of steel is in your part of the world,but you could just fab up a frame to fit the body. i would use 2x3" tubing 1/8'wall, or the metric eqivilent. Sparky
Moving, PM me your e-mail addy and I can send you a PDF of a stock A frame. Used it to make a frame for my coupe out of 2 x 5 x .125 tube. Canuck
I ran into Tex Smith at the LA Roadster show and he sorta "told" me I "had to" buy his latest two books and I said "only if you sign them" to which he said he'd sign them on every page and I said once where there is't already words would be sufficient, welll anyway, I read one and am about 2/3 thru the other and I highly recommend you get at least the second one to help decide how you want to build your ch***is. It's called "How to Build Hot Rod Ch***is" by Tex Smith. It's got chapters on everything and includes prints of those Westcott frame dimension pages and a frame clip how too featuring the work of Enjenjo (RRT co-owner, HAMB member). The other book Tex Smith's "Building Guide for Basic Hot Rods" I found is a book long "seminar" on how to just have fun with hotrods by just getting back to the basics (like "we" do at the HAMB) and good for someone still trying to decide between (cool) basic, eternally in style rodding and whitewalls and (more often than not, scary handling) done that last decade, Pro-street...
Try a "search" of this forum....it comes up ALL the time. There have been some really good "how to's" on this..... model a frame
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