Project SCHEVY 2001 Silverado

[GMracer]

Figured I would share my thread

I built a frame already, well modified a stock one but have now decided against using it and wanted to build one from scatch and setup the suspension the way I want it.
So most of you have seen my truck go through its growth over the couple years, lowered 4wd 6.0, then I decided to swap to shock waves and get rid of the 4wd. Well 50miles later my transmission blew for the 4th time and I made a whole thread about that asshole.

April 2007

Well I made the decision to put it in the garage and build it to exactly what I wanted... which is where I stand now. I bought a 1999 RCSB for a daily drive, I own the black one so Im not building any credit there so this way I build a little credit and have a reliable truck. So the tear down begins...

A couple months have gone by and I have torn down my truck into every possible piece imaginable... I have decided that if Im going to do it, then Im going to do it right and do it ALL.

This truck I want to build to be simple and aggressive, my goal is to make it look like it was supposed to be like that, ie: instead of cups to space in a coil pocket, run a torsion setup so it looks like the truck was built for air.

Currently my plans are vaguely as followed...

From now till August 2008:
Build a full custom tube chassis
Shockwaves DA suspension, triangulated rear, srong arms
All front suspension moved up
Black frame, PowderCoated Chrome Suspension
2" Bodydrop
Fix all bodywork on cab, set it down on frame.
custom front end
custom rollpan
custom lights
shaved stuff
Pop the hood and all you see is motor, PCM and fuse box behind dash above glove box
No ABS, egr, evap
14bolt rear end with a detroit locker (not a LSD)
Built t56 6speed
More cubes and a surprise
black interior
painted true black
intro 20x8.5" GT Sports 20x15" 7.5""BS out back
275/40 and 29"x15.5" M/T rubber



Inside of my cab, ready for wires to be worked, ALL of them :flame:

Cab with 15% on shield haha, not staying tho.

Some parts

All the nuts and bolts, most likely being replaced with new.

6.0 with the harness that needs to be stripped down and reworked also

No airbags? 5pt harness then...

Cando smoothie pan

SD 4link, 33" long

[GMracer]

Well the frame rails are in, when mandrel bending it's impossible to put two different bends in one place so I could either A) piece the bend together or B) pie cut and bend the rails in and lay a nice strong bead down the side. I took the B) method. I plan to put a plate on the inner side for added strength.

Here is the frame I just finished (for sale now) showing how it kicks in and up at the same time.

The frame rails, had them custom bent at AutoWeld Chassis

Laid out on my jig, the rear frame rails lift up a little high, I wrote down the wrong measurement on the plans, but its not way off, and in all actuality it worked out for the better because a design change I made showed it was necessary


Marking the pie cuts



Cut and put back into place

Bent in and clamped firmly in place



then welded up




Then I put the arm up and in "basic position" to plan and see how stuff was going to work.


Lowers parallel uppers 10* pitch backwards



Now he is my current dilemma, my controls get raised and my rack can't be because the motor is right above it. So I plan to flip the tie rods then convert to a heims link, but I still don't think it's going to get low enough to where my lca angles will be parallel with my tie rod arms... we shall see, worst come to work I will lower my control arm slightly.

Now the two pieces of 1x1 represent the bottom of the bolts holes for the rack so say 2-3" above that the rack rests.

[ducky]

jesus this is going to be quite a build. But sounds like its going to be a great project when its finished. you definitely need to keep us up to speed with progress

[GMracer]

will do, I have the previous frame build on PT, GMFS and STS site. Right now I'm working on figuring out my steering issue

[SCIV]

Incredible. I wish I understood half of that!

I can appreciate nice work though!

[Riceeater]

Yeah I wouldnt know were to begin

[FER79]

wow !!! great job...

[DBYRD]

yeah WOW seriously, i wanna see this when its done. u lost me at the 6.0 and harness

[Legacy]

Ya that looks like its gonna be a sweet truck, just curious why you wanna take out the ABS

[zeake]