Cobra and C5 Corvette Suspension, Driveline Project

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Guys thanks for all the feed back in the other post. I wanted to show you guys what my father and I are playing with in our cobra so I started this post to keep the Admin happy. And keep the other post on track

My father and I have a shop in central Texas our bread and butter is replacement frames for different older Chevy’s using the vette stuff. We were doing some fiberglass cars but we have really stopped there just not worth it with all the work they take, to make half way decent. Plus we are welders and fabricators by nature and fiberglass is itchy as hell so please don’t thing this post is a hard core ad campaign, we might sell the first one on EBay just because we could do 10 times better on the next one and so forth. And we might do it because we have the mold later on, after we can answer all the question I’m going to be asking you all but until then we just have a little more room in our garage and some cool tool.

I’m Russell, the computer nerd son who works with Jim aka, dad aka old guy. We have fun so don’t ever come to our shop and expect to take us seriously and if you ask a question expect a very long very serious answer.

We don’t have much Ford practice so that’s why I’m here showing what we are doing and getting some feed back on parts and what you guys might think about it.

This Cobra will have the suspension and driveline from a 2002 Corvette. For the guys who haven’t seen a striped vette suspension here a great shot of a striped down C6 which is the same thing with a smaller torque tube. Sorry all of ours are all apart.



This is the chassis we stared Monday and yesterday we dropped it on the ground and put a suspension on it. After talking with all of you and playing more with the body we decided to drop some of our “real” work to play with this. So here are some photos I took before we left the shop today. I turned the brightness way us so things could be seen in the dark areas. The body is just sitting there nothing is in stone before people start screaming about how the body is off some where. You’ve herd of the measure twice cut once well we measure about 50 time before we do anything, do it right or not at all.

Thanks again