Hello all,
I am new to this forum, but currently i am in a dilemma on whether or not I need to reinforce the chassis anymore. So the purpose of this build is to place the largest engine possible with a 6 foot 5 tall person into the smallest car. I have just finished building the engine and it's a 468ci big block chevy with 11:1 compression pulling 642 hp and 607 foot pounds of torque. I do have the F.A.S.T. XFI 2.0 installed and all is ready to run. I am planning to mate a T56 transmission to this block. So what had to be done to the chassis to fit the block was adding the McSorely 442 seating area width, Chris Gibss' rear independent suspension widened by 50.4mm and also elongating the passenger area and the engine bay by around 200mm. Thankfully, for simplicity, I will be incorporating Chris Gibbs' book front and rear suspension mounting points. So far I have been running torsion tests and kept on adding in beams to reinforce it. With the current design, I have managed to achieve 4688.3 lb*ft/deg without the R- tube. There simply is no space for it. You can find my designs of the chassis on
https://grabcad.com/library/locost-1 and I was wanting to get some input on some unnecessary beams or some that i could add in. The suspension mounting points and engine dimensions are marked with the long construction lines. Here are the attachments. Thank you all for your help in advance.
Here is the link again.
https://grabcad.com/library/locost-1