47 CHEVY PANEL

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I posted some of the this build a year ago. Then everything went to shit so I had to sit on it. so here it is all over again.

1)  So this panel came in the shop last night. Somebody put a 1st gen Camaro under it and they did a BAD job. The front end runs down hill so the anti dive is gone. When the guy got the truck the old owner told him "Man we had a Big Block Chevy in here" you be the judge. Oh yeah the bottom of the chassis was 15.5" off the ground.













After alittle plasma action we set the panel at ride height.





I'll post some more later.
 

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2)  I've got some more Pictures for you guys. The 4-Bar is one of my designs I make my own rod ends. The brackets are laser cut. I have over 50 different brackets that I sell. 











I'm going to run a track bar like the old C-10's. The mount on the rear end is temporary. I have to make another one. 

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3)  I put some of the boxing plates in today. I'm not going to box the whole frame it's a money thing. As you guys can see in some of the photos I welded the front 4-Bar brackets right to the frame a lot of people were tell me hey you need gussets well here it is. I like to weld the bracket then take the boxing plate around the tubing this way it is welded at two points. Then I’ll put gussets on them.





The boxing plate is 1/8" plate. The next thing is cap the end of the tubing then the
C-notch.

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4)  Sorry I haven’t posted anything on this Panel for awhile. I’m in the middle of expanding my shop and ran out of money. So I had no place to work on it. I’m going to put an S-10 front end under this panel. I know what you’re thinking that front end is 5” to narrow. Your right but that’s ok I have a plan.





It’s just a plain Jane S-10 frontend. I had some Global West upper control arms.



For those of you that haven’t done this swap the frame horns are a little long so they need to cut back just a hair.





Now we all know the S-10 is narrow so I decided add 4.25” to it





I had too many pictures so I’ll do another thread.

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5)  I put the engine so I could mock up the engine mounts and the tranny mount. I was going to use a piece of round tube but I decided to go with 2x3 I’ll notch it later to clear the exhaust.









I set the ride height 6” I think it would be perfect the running boards will get the panel a lower look.   

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6)  As I said before the ride height is 6”. I know there are tons of drop spindles out there.  I’m using Bell Tech Drop Spindles this way if the owner wants to raise the right height it’s as simple as putting on a stock set of spindles.







I always build something like this at ride height for one very simple reason there will be no surprises.