57 Truck subframe

[truckman]

Hey,

Did you get it welded to your truck yet?



Cliff

[azsnow]

The frame is still sitting in the same place, waiting to be finished. My brother isn't very reliable, and I am about to snag it from him and have someone else do the welding. The main problem I have is that I don't have anyplace to store it, or else it would already be finished!

[dannyleach]

my 57 came in at 113 1/2 when I slid my buick clip into place - don't forget your plans for the back end and how much you want the truck to slant - you want the front wheels in the center of the wells all said and done

for the most part, the powerband really resides in the drive train.........

if you get a chance, post some pictures here

Danny

[57plaid]

I guess it would depend on how you plan to use your truck. I myself, use mine as trucks, so I'd go with the 88-99 complete chassis, shortend to fit of course.

If you use it as an "attention getter", then I'd use the Camaro clip. A friend has done several, and it works well. In fact, he uses the whole car, front clip, rear end, pedals, wiring harness, I mean everything.

I don't think the S10 is recommended, though.

[dyncMymn73]

ok the truck will go in 5th but it wont do anything, it acts like its in neutral, and when you down shift it pops out of gear, what is causing this? synco???

[bjarvisclan]

If you are looking to get rid of the small window cab and it's not eaten up with cancer. I am interested-bjarvisclan@aol.com

[Illinois Hunter]

On the 58 I just did, I bought a 70 camaro as a donor for $200.00 I used the fron stub off of it, the rearend, and scrapped the rest for guess how much $200.00 I made the mounting brackets for the rear calipers and mounted 70 Monte Carlo calipers and rotors to make it 4 wheel disk, and used an old style corvet master cylinder for the brakes. I spent a total of $65 bucks to convert it over to 4 wheel disk brakes. All else worked out great. Take a look at my photobucket pics in my first post today to see it begining to end.