Leaf Springs are for sway and carry capacity air ride on a heavy car is a no no bad idea and drum breaks are the best at rear and original differential is made in the USA with quality gears and timken bearings and race
Don’t forget about running your air lines for the air ride. Buy some “made 4 you” “T-clamps” and drill and tap the frame for all your fasteners that hold all your brake lines and fuel lines also.
Great video. You probably know this already but you said the measurement for the rear shock mount is 20 1/4” from that hole. That is for a one piece frame, the instructions say the measurement is 14 1/2” for your 2 piece frame.
I’ve heard they have a pretty high failure rate and if you use more than a 350lph fuel pump it will overwhelm it. That’s just what I’ve heard though, not experience.
Nice work! I'm sure you've already heard this, but the webbing on the cinder blocks should be vertical, they are weak the way you have them set up. I had a former coworker have a 55 fall on him and yes, he's in a wheelchair to this day.
Great Video, Im doing the same thing on a 57 right now, so it was great to see your video, just curious what width did you go with on your 9 inch diff, axle face to axle face
just bought a 57 chevy hardtop wanting to about same thing to mine but my cars in way worse shape so gonna b on more of a budget deal u mind sharing rear end with u put in with the air ride?
Your trans crossmember is upside down. Hopefully he didn't set pinion angle with it that way. Just finished my LS3 TR6060 with BRP mounts in my 57 Chevrolet.
Looking good my friend real nice l wish you well ,thank you for sharing my brother .
Thank you
Leaf Springs are for sway and carry capacity air ride on a heavy car is a no no bad idea and drum breaks are the best at rear and original differential is made in the USA with quality gears and timken bearings and race
Good thing you don't have to drive this future turd
This is exciting to watch, looking forward to more videos! Thanks for sharing!
It is exciting to do too
Very nice, doing a great job.
Thank you
@@TWAMotorsports Are you familiar with Max Jax? It would work great in your new shop, lifting car bodies would be breeze.
I am. Gonna put a 2 post in eventually
Good job on frame prep, 417 Motorsports welding looks great!! Looking forward to the next video on this major project. ✌🏻
Thank you. Yes they do a great job
Love the progress. Your kind of the Guinea pig for my project. I’m probably going to run the same setup. I’m ready for the next vids. Thanks
Thank you. Lots more to come
Don’t forget about running your air lines for the air ride.
Buy some “made 4 you” “T-clamps” and drill and tap the frame for all your fasteners that hold all your brake lines and fuel lines also.
That is the plan on lines
this is one hell of a project bud, keep up the good work.
Thank you
Also the oil pan change is needed for the steering to clear
I said we would be changing in the video
Nice work.Harder than I though
Thank you. Definitely more than normal work.
Looks like some great progress!
Thank you
You’re going to have to cut the tunnel in order for the transmission to fit and also the oil pan will need to be changed
No on transmission. Yes on oil pan, which I stated
@@TWAMotorsports Love what you’re doing keeping going. Waiting for the end results.
Thank you
Great video. You probably know this already but you said the measurement for the rear shock mount is 20 1/4” from that hole. That is for a one piece frame, the instructions say the measurement is 14 1/2” for your 2 piece frame.
Thank you for the info. All welded in now
Why not use the C5 corvette fuel filter and regular? Then you would only need to run 1 fuel line.
I’ve heard they have a pretty high failure rate and if you use more than a 350lph fuel pump it will overwhelm it. That’s just what I’ve heard though, not experience.
It won't handle the pressure I will be throwing at it.
Bingo
I was trying to see if you noted the frame partial VIN, somewhere around the drivers seat frame mounts. Enjoying your work :>)-
I haven't
Nice work! I'm sure you've already heard this, but the webbing on the cinder blocks should be vertical, they are weak the way you have them set up. I had a former coworker have a 55 fall on him and yes, he's in a wheelchair to this day.
I have heard that and now have a 2 post lift
@@TWAMotorsports nice, you have a dream garage!
@edweigman9683 thank you
Great Video, Im doing the same thing on a 57 right now, so it was great to see your video, just curious what width did you go with on your 9 inch diff, axle face to axle face
Its a stock replacement width
The frame says don't screw with old quality build your Owen frame and see if it fits the body
Not sure what you are saying here
Came a long way from the disappointment of cracked frame.
That's for sure
just bought a 57 chevy hardtop wanting to about same thing to mine but my cars in way worse shape so gonna b on more of a budget deal u mind sharing rear end with u put in with the air ride?
Its a quick time performance rear end and it wasn't cheap
I'm sure it wasn't I've never had one but heard great yhings about them you by chance know what width it is
@guybenning6909 stock width
OK. thank you!
@guybenning6909 you're welcome
Is the 4l80 going to fit in the transmission tunnel or are you going to have to modify that? Awesome project.
Thank you. It fits without modification
Use a 4 or 5ah batteries it does pretty good! My newest Dewalt is a 3/8 ratche i highly recommend it. Been great so fart
They do better. That's for sure.
What happen with the white tahoe?
Sold a long time ago
Holley makes some good oil pans. I have one on my Chevelle that’s nice and snug.
I may do one of them. Still measuring
@@TWAMotorsports Go with the high clearance Moroso from BRP and use their headers.
I probably will
Good progress Travis. Missing parts or hardware. Really? Vendors, quality control? Somebody's job to count the pieces.
It happens. They next day aired replacements
Your trans crossmember is upside down. Hopefully he didn't set pinion angle with it that way. Just finished my LS3 TR6060 with BRP mounts in my 57 Chevrolet.
After measuring pinion angle this was the the correct way to mount it.
@@TWAMotorsports Curious what did you set it too?
3 degrees
Ever miss the RS7 ?
Just the look
ridetech sent us the 33 1/2 crossmember isntead of the 35 and some change version, 2 week wait. For what we pay for this stuff its unacceptable.
That is understandable as far as frustration
Got shock wave on the front bags on the rear .. trick set up ..
Thank you. Technically they are both shock waves