S-10 or Bazer Frame for restoration Comments
03-03-2007, 09:19 PM
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S-10 or Bazer Frame for restoration Comments
I have been reading comments on the SR III frame and Paul Newman frame for restoration. Why not use a less expensive frame? Will a S-10 frame work with the C4 suspensions? If not, any other frames out there?
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03-03-2007, 09:33 PM
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Probably for the same reason you go to Al Knoch for a top and not Home depot and get a blue tarp. It was designed for it, it works, and its a corvette (translation: gonna cost anyway, so pony up). Ya gotta pay to play is what I have always heard. Besides, who wants to reinvent the wheel?
03-03-2007, 10:14 PM
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Sure, any frame will work with enough work. The S-10 frame can't just bolt up the C4 suspension, so there would be a lot of cutting fabrication and welding. If you are going to all this work, why not build an entire new chassis, instead of one from under a pickup truck. By the time you built a jig to weld the suspension points in the correct location under the S-10, you would probably have more in the chassis than you could buy a new SRIII chassis for, and it would still not be near as good.
Take a look at the pic below, and you will see the attention to engineering that goes into one of these frames. This ain't no pckup frame! There are a lot of kit cars these days that use a donor S-10 chassis, but this is a way to build a car cheap, not a way to build a car that will handle like a supercar.
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-...3/P0000974.JPG
Regards, John McGraw
Take a look at the pic below, and you will see the attention to engineering that goes into one of these frames. This ain't no pckup frame! There are a lot of kit cars these days that use a donor S-10 chassis, but this is a way to build a car cheap, not a way to build a car that will handle like a supercar.
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-...3/P0000974.JPG
Regards, John McGraw
03-04-2007, 02:09 PM
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03-04-2007, 05:13 PM
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Sure, any frame will work with enough work. The S-10 frame can't just bolt up the C4 suspension, so there would be a lot of cutting fabrication and welding. If you are going to all this work, why not build an entire new chassis, instead of one from under a pickup truck. By the time you built a jig to weld the suspension points in the correct location under the S-10, you would probably have more in the chassis than you could buy a new SRIII chassis for, and it would still not be near as good.
Take a look at the pic below, and you will see the attention to engineering that goes into one of these frames. This ain't no pckup frame! There are a lot of kit cars these days that use a donor S-10 chassis, but this is a way to build a car cheap, not a way to build a car that will handle like a supercar.
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-...3/P0000974.JPG
Regards, John McGraw
Take a look at the pic below, and you will see the attention to engineering that goes into one of these frames. This ain't no pckup frame! There are a lot of kit cars these days that use a donor S-10 chassis, but this is a way to build a car cheap, not a way to build a car that will handle like a supercar.
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-...3/P0000974.JPG
Regards, John McGraw
