Would it be easy to attach a third gen fbody frame/body to a rolling C6 chassis?

Like this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chevy...Q5fAccessories

 

absolutely nothing about the ordeal would be easy. Im sure it could be done, but would involve a LOT of fabrication and money.

the c6 is also wider, and not sure about the wheel base, but with the torque tube design, you are pretty much unable to modify the wheelbase without massive cost.

 

Possible? Yes. The Civette proved that.

Easy? No.

 

Yeah, I knew it was possible seeing that, but thought it would be easier being a more suitable body then a civic.

 

there was a show on speed or spike or something where Jay Leno used a vett roller as the fondation for some 50's or 60's car. I don't remember the details. It would be extensive body modification.

There was a firebird concept car built on the c6 I saw at a car show once (2000 ish). It was almost all vett with just the front and rear looking like the ram air 4th gen. To bad they never made it, and since pontiac is gone the firebird will never be back.

 

ahh found the jay leno one.
http://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/to...o-Jay-Leno.htm

 

Would the frame need modification? Or is it just body, so the suspension would bolt up?

 

I would think it would require removing the entire 3rd gen body from the car (panels, etc) cutting the whole suspension, drivetrain, etc out, and attaching the body to the rolling chassis and using the Vettes suspension and drivetrain. But, since it's a unibody car, I don't really know what you'd mount it too. Probably have to fabricate something that could mount to the Vette chassis and then mount the body panels from the 3rd gen to that.

 

Exactly what I thought I was gonna hear. Basically create a new frame around the rolling chassis for the 3rd gen body... Thought it would be a little easier than that. It would probably cost quite a bit if a body shop would even do that kind of fabrication, but would still be a lot less than 50k for a 08 C6 and would be very unique.

 

Yea, I think it'd be a pretty sweet ride. I've seen things like that done with older cars and trucks, but they were frame/body cars. My dad started it with a 32 Chevy coupe (I think) and a C5 chassis, but never bought the Vette chassis. The coupe is still sitting under a tarp in the old shop lol.

 

it depends on how everything lines up. I don't know the weel base info on the vett, but if its anywhere near the firebird you could do it by cutting off all the "frame" rails of the firebird and welding/bolting the vett subframe/or fab up a new subframe. The problem would be I think you would need to streach the bird in width and srink it in length or streach the vett chasis in length. If you could find a wide body kit for the firebird it might get the wheels in side the fenders.

It might be easier to use the front vett rails as a subframe on the front, and use something like a thunderbird independent rear suspension on the rear and use a standard transmission.

 

I know this is old now, but I was thinking, if it's difficult to bolt on a 3rd-gen F-Body onto a vette chassis, I was thinking, how easier it is to do the same with a 4th-gen F-body.

I have a '92 GTA, that I littraly ruined, in the process of trying to swap in a 1uz-fe (4.0 V8 quad-cam aluminum from a Lexus). I have very little of cross member left on the car, and basically the car is junk now. Well, not literraly junk, cause the motor/tranny on it are fine, but I hate thinking that I have no cross member, or very little of it.

I'm thinking to take my enite body/frame, and drop on a 4th-gen Trans Am.

What you guys think!

 

If by crossmember you mean k-member, just buy a new one. They bolt it. Or maybe a tubular one would work for you.

 

Yeah, I could have done that, but I favor droping my body onto a 4th-gen rolling chassis, that has motor (LS1)/tranny on, and this because 3rd-gens are very very rare in my country, and finding a simple parts of motor or tranny is a serious hastle, whereas 4th-gens are easier to spot, and parts are abundance.

I've had my GTA for 6 years now, of which costed me a lot of blood & sweat just to keep it running on the road, and now I think it's about time to take it to a different route.

I would be extremely happy to know that it's possible to weld a Third gen body, onto a 4th gen rolling chassis

any ideas??

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/fabr...-z06-long.html

 

Patrol32, look up what a "unibody" car is and you'll see that what you're suggesting isn't a possibility. 3rd gen and 4th gen f-bodies, like most modern cars, don't have a separate body and frame that are bolted together. The body and frame are combined into one unit. Therefore, there is no "body" to separate from a 3rd gen or "frame" to separate from a 4th gen.

What can be done with a lot of skill and time, is to take a 3rd gen and modify the unibody shell to use it as just a body to bolt on to an actual frame of another vehicle.