I have a habit of trying to watch any UA-cam video that is suggested with less than 1000 views. I am sure it will soon after this comment. It is my attempt to support the smaller UA-cam channels. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, it really takes (me) a long time to edit a video (this one took 35 hours) I try to take every second out that doesn't matter as not to waste ppl's time. Because the subject is dry, I try to always improve filming and editing.
@@JohnReynolds661 John - your dedication to educate and entertain us is immensely appreciated. I anxiously look forward to every installment. Thank you 🙏
Finest home garage build on the Tube. Laughed at the Nader reference. And I might say that is one fine street rod you’re building…not a negative by the way. Highest praise,sir.
Mr. renolds ,love your work,that is some of the finest work I have ever seen.your sleeper vw is super cool.i like the ideal of over powering small cars.ADB.
11:15 Nice range suggested. IIRC, for my '66 Corsa set up for autocross, I got 6 degrees with the stock suspension. And in street driving with a smaller than stock diameter steering wheel, steering effort was not annoying, even at low speed. Of course, this was with the OE engine setup as well, so a different F/R weight distribution.
I wait patiently for each post. Thank you for your style, humor, and knowledge. So fun to watch and learn. The editing and flow of each video is just fun.
Your videos are phenomenal! I’m a mechanical engineering student and love watching your experience and methods make such amazing parts and progress, as soon as I see an upload I watch it. Can’t wait to see you finish this. Thank you for your content!
Phenomenal job. I'm restoring my '67 Corvair right now (Aug 2022) and just finished rebuilding my stock front suspension. That was plenty of work, full props to you for this extreme mod. Excellent fabrication and video.
I'd ask 'how much?' for the old front suspension for my Corvair, but I would bet the shipping would make it cost prohibitive to my old Kentucky home :(.....Love your videos. I think you are the BEST combination of engineer, fabricator, designer that I've ever seen(and I've watched a LOT of UA-cam and car shows.. I envy your skills!
I think where you cut out the trunk area for the radiator you might have lost some support for the rigidity of the suspension, that is what unibody uses to keep both frame rails from excess movement with each other. Just my thought.
Wow...love all those zoomy components. Enjoy your attention to detail, but also keeping a sense of humor. Similar to the Super-Fast Matt channel. (His Bonneville racer build, shares your skillset and engineering.) Whilst building this, ever wonder...or appreciate, what Chevrolet engineers went through to create this?? Obviously, your iteration is WAY better, but this technology didn't exist back then. The Fiero would be the closest thing, to more modern chassis design.
This video is getting rather technical but you did a great job explaining what you were doing. I know one thing, you will need a pretty sharp alignment person who understands suspensions if you ever require any work to be done on your Corvair. Of course, it would be better to do it yourself. 😊
Go easy on the gas pedal at the drag strip. Don't want to do 9.99 or less. You can do it. Once. That piece that came out at 1:37 was what mine needed after my 100,000 mile Corvair got stolen. Every thing between the front wheels got bent. But looked good above that. Trunk opened just fine and the bumper was not tweaked. Could have used that in 1971. $1200 was a lot of money to repair it 1971. In fact finding a Corvair for $1200 in 1971 was not a hard thing to find.
Apparently your never disassembling the steering and brake components? Some appeared to be aluminium components, and the threaded portion did not receive never-seize, I assume road salt is not used in your area? The front suspension assembly I agree looked to be well made! Good luck, can't wait for the next video.
They do work good. Too good, in fact as mine tended to lock up a lot. Some also say there was no need to replace all the stuff I did as it was all perfectly good as is.
@@JohnReynolds661 i’m going to ditch them because it’s always pulling to one side or the other. I make a minor adjustment to the side locking up first and then it pulls the other way. My right front locks up before any of the other three, makes for an exciting ride! I think it also has something to do with the tires that fit on the stock rims. Why did you decide to buy the ChassisWorks kit? Did you give any thought to using a section of the stock Corvette frame? You fabricated virtually everything else on the car, I was just kind of surprised when you went with this solution.
Yeah, drum brakes are less predictable with less modulation. The CW kit's execution is well thought out and is based on C6 geometry. It also grafts in cleanly. Using actual Corvette parts would have been more messy. I also would have been stuck with using all GM components. To keep the project from lasting a decade, I made a short cut by buying the CW kit. My time is worth something so a balance between buying and building always takes place.
Hey John, GREAT looking front end. Chassisworks stand alone kits are definitely great quality and for the theme and build quality of your Corvair. Question for you. In your upper shock mounts where you beveled and butt welded the upper mounting tabs back on, had you given any thought to making doubler plates that spanned across the butt weld? If so, is there a reason why you opted not to plate the weld seam? Thanks and looking forward to more of your work. Mike
You did know that both Flaming River Ind and Ididit LLC can supply a tilt column that will bolt into the Corvair? Same dash mount and firewall attachment.
Awesome video John, I always anxiously await your next video. Super sanitary installation. I do have one question is that a Harbor freight torque wrench that you used on the ball joints?
Great work John, thanks for sharing. Are you using any suspension software for your work? I *think* maybe your 350 pound front springs might be a little much compared to stock springs, but let us know :)
Thanks for all the great videos! Getting ready to order the chassisworks double A arm suspension like you . I have a "65" I have a question if you dont mind .... What wheel hub width did you use? Thanks again
Bill Option 1 Option Code: 01 Bare Steel Finish A-Arms Bill Option 2 Option Code: 01 Bare Steel Spindle OEM Tierod Ends Bill Option 3 Option Code: 09 SILVER RACK 30" CSMBR & 7700 CHEVY II, 21.5" RACK CENTERS Bill Option 4 Option Code: 30 ANTI ROLLBAR STD75 WITH 7700 CLIP & 30" A-ARM CROSSMEMBER Bill Option 5 Option Code: 21 Coil-over & Bolts Q2 Double Adjustable Valving Varishock Bill Option 6 Option Code: 01 Light Small Block Engine 500 lb Springs Bill Option 7 Option Code: 21 13 -1.00 SRP Rotor 4-Piston Black Ano Radial Mount Caliper I don't remember the numbers, but the invoice says 30" Just tell them my name for measurements to be certain. Their lightest spring was 500# and it's too stiff.
How much of the front end change can be done leaving the original trunk sheet metal and wheel arches. I know that there is a bit of cutting but what is the absolute minimum possible. Thanks
I watched this part twice - I believe that you put the calipers on the wrong sides - the bleed screws should be on the top of the calipers, not the bottom, or you can't get the air bubbles out...
Do you have a complete parts list or item number for the kit I am swapping a v8 into a 74 fiat spyder and it looks like a good match but the chassis works website only shows individual parts
I have a habit of trying to watch any UA-cam video that is suggested with less than 1000 views. I am sure it will soon after this comment. It is my attempt to support the smaller UA-cam channels. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, it really takes (me) a long time to edit a video (this one took 35 hours) I try to take every second out that doesn't matter as not to waste ppl's time. Because the subject is dry, I try to always improve filming and editing.
@@JohnReynolds661 John - your dedication to educate and entertain us is immensely appreciated. I anxiously look forward to every installment. Thank you 🙏
@@JohnReynolds661 no doubt! UA-cam is very fickle, so hopefully your hard work and editing pay off 🤞
Finest home garage build on the Tube. Laughed at the Nader reference. And I might say that is one fine street rod you’re building…not a negative by the way. Highest praise,sir.
Mr. renolds ,love your work,that is some of the finest work I have ever seen.your sleeper vw is super cool.i like the ideal of over powering small cars.ADB.
Great assembly process you follow. I don’t imagine you make many mistakes nor miss something. You remind me of an airplane mechanic.
Just a pleasure to watch and learn a credit to your skills and workmanship!!😊
Thank goodness you chose the “anti roll over bar”. Not sure how the car stayed upright for all these years.
Fantastic build. Love your videos.
they corner great...i keep my vairs stock..my 62 drives great too with the swing arms.....
🤣🤣🤣
11:15 Nice range suggested. IIRC, for my '66 Corsa set up for autocross, I got 6 degrees with the stock suspension. And in street driving with a smaller than stock diameter steering wheel, steering effort was not annoying, even at low speed. Of course, this was with the OE engine setup as well, so a different F/R weight distribution.
there's some serious attention to detail on the fab work!
DOn't take this the wrong way John, but for an American you have a really good sense of humour! Nice build to! The car I mean!!!
That suspension install is spot on and you're doing the Corvair justice keep at it John looking forward to more videos🤗😎🤗😎
The front end mods are wonderful and should improve the 1960’s engineering dynamics.
I wait patiently for each post. Thank you for your style, humor, and knowledge. So fun to watch and learn. The editing and flow of each video is just fun.
Your videos are phenomenal! I’m a mechanical engineering student and love watching your experience and methods make such amazing parts and progress, as soon as I see an upload I watch it. Can’t wait to see you finish this. Thank you for your content!
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Phenomenal job. I'm restoring my '67 Corvair right now (Aug 2022) and just finished rebuilding my stock front suspension. That was plenty of work, full props to you for this extreme mod. Excellent fabrication and video.
This is when we do the brake lines...... I'll keep watching
I like those clockspring loaded hubs. It gives you some regenerative braking benefit.
I absolutely adore the "I see what you did there!" moments in every one of your videos.🤣
Great work!!! I am glad to see I am not the only one that reads the install instructions AFTER doing an install. hahahahahha
Can't believe this is my old corvair!!! Love this whole series. So cool to watch! Keep it up John and come take me for a ride once she's done!!
Will do!
Hey man You is so smart, selling the parts you removed.
It's my Second Time Watching... Great Video. Thanks for Sharing
It's looking great, and I really appreciate how you explain your thought process. I've always loved the Corvairs.
Nice work as always.
Very nice! That car is a piece of artwork! Thanks for making it happen on line where it’s visible.
6:48 That ball joint looks like an old style Chrysler. I use to install them using a socket, I believe, made by KD tools.
that kit is very very good. every time you break out that angle gauge i can just hear the project binky dudes saying make the noise ...
Amazed as always. Nice work!
Love this John ! Keep it going
As always, awesome video!
This Corvair is going to one most bad ass in the country.
Beautiful equipment in more-than-capable hands. Love these videos!
Looking good JR!
Awesome. That's going to be a fun ride. Your videos are great. Just the right length.
Really nice upgrade, love the brakes.
John you are a master 👍💪
Love to watch your fab skills. I wish I had them.
Simply amazing John. That’s taking shape, keep up, thanks for your lessons
This by far in the top three builds on utube thank you for sharing this 🙏
Incredible welds.
Fantastic progress, can't wait to see the steering column.
I'd ask 'how much?' for the old front suspension for my Corvair, but I would bet the shipping would make it cost prohibitive to my old Kentucky home :(.....Love your videos. I think you are the BEST combination of engineer, fabricator, designer that I've ever seen(and I've watched a LOT of UA-cam and car shows.. I envy your skills!
Well, thanks! Yeah, I'm asking $350 for it but not really interested in shipping because of the size and weight.
I think where you cut out the trunk area for the radiator you might have lost some support for the rigidity of the suspension, that is what unibody uses to keep both frame rails from excess movement with each other. Just my thought.
That's a nice piece.
John it’s obvious the work you did on the beetle was fantastic. But I think this one is going to be even better. I really enjoy seeing your progress.
Looking real good!!!
Enjoyed watching as always and seeing this amazing car coming together, Ralph Nader would be so proud. Thank you for sharing, take care and peace out.
Wow...love all those zoomy components. Enjoy your attention to detail, but also keeping a sense of humor. Similar to the Super-Fast Matt channel. (His Bonneville racer build, shares your skillset and engineering.)
Whilst building this, ever wonder...or appreciate, what Chevrolet engineers went through to create this?? Obviously, your iteration is WAY better, but this technology didn't exist back then. The Fiero would be the closest thing, to more modern chassis design.
Once again...great work
This video is getting rather technical but you did a great job explaining what you were doing. I know one thing, you will need a pretty sharp alignment person who understands suspensions if you ever require any work to be done on your Corvair. Of course, it would be better to do it yourself. 😊
So interesting! Thanks, John!
Looks awesome! 💪👍🏼
Great video!
Very nice work.
Excellent engineering
looks really good
Beautiful!
I took 3 of those apart in 1982 to make one good car...... never finished it tho!!
Looks good, getting closer
nice video!
Love your videos and love your humor. @14:47 made me laugh :)
Very nice!
Smooooth!
Go easy on the gas pedal at the drag strip. Don't want to do 9.99 or less. You can do it. Once.
That piece that came out at 1:37 was what mine needed after my 100,000 mile Corvair got stolen.
Every thing between the front wheels got bent. But looked good above that. Trunk opened just fine and the bumper was not tweaked.
Could have used that in 1971.
$1200 was a lot of money to repair it 1971. In fact finding a Corvair for $1200 in 1971 was not a hard thing to find.
A real petrolhead in action! - fantastic job!
Great!
That new rotor needs balancing hahahahaha
Apparently your never disassembling the steering and brake components? Some appeared to be aluminium components, and the threaded portion did not receive never-seize, I assume road salt is not used in your area? The front suspension assembly I agree looked to be well made! Good luck, can't wait for the next video.
I just wish he worked in our Government
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You make it look so easy! Looks great. I like the wheels. Just ordered some for my C10. Maybe they'll come off backorder eventually?
It took about two months to get the rear wheels.
Looking forward to this.
You are killing me… how long has it been? Love all this high end fab. It’s gonna be a BEAST.
Could you please expand on your decision involving structural integrity and the approach. Thank you 😊
In short, I didn't want to remove anymore of the sub-frame than I had to.
Have you had any Corvair guys tell you that the drums work fine, and that Chevy spent a lot of money figuring things out? LOL!🤣
They do work good. Too good, in fact as mine tended to lock up a lot. Some also say there was no need to replace all the stuff I did as it was all perfectly good as is.
@@JohnReynolds661 i’m going to ditch them because it’s always pulling to one side or the other. I make a minor adjustment to the side locking up first and then it pulls the other way. My right front locks up before any of the other three, makes for an exciting ride! I think it also has something to do with the tires that fit on the stock rims.
Why did you decide to buy the ChassisWorks kit? Did you give any thought to using a section of the stock Corvette frame? You fabricated virtually everything else on the car, I was just kind of surprised when you went with this solution.
Yeah, drum brakes are less predictable with less modulation. The CW kit's execution is well thought out and is based on C6 geometry. It also grafts in cleanly. Using actual Corvette parts would have been more messy. I also would have been stuck with using all GM components. To keep the project from lasting a decade, I made a short cut by buying the CW kit. My time is worth something so a balance between buying and building always takes place.
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Hey John, GREAT looking front end. Chassisworks stand alone kits are definitely great quality and for the theme and build quality of your Corvair.
Question for you. In your upper shock mounts where you beveled and butt welded the upper mounting tabs back on, had you given any thought to making doubler plates that spanned across the butt weld? If so, is there a reason why you opted not to plate the weld seam?
Thanks and looking forward to more of your work.
Mike
More great eye candy John, love your work. I did not recognize the subscribe music this time...do tell?
Ha, it's the ROKU boot-up theme.
@@JohnReynolds661 hahaha, awesome! 👌
You did know that both Flaming River Ind and Ididit LLC can supply a tilt column that will bolt into the Corvair? Same dash mount and firewall attachment.
Too late now. But this is the usual course, I build something and ppl tell me I should have done it another way or it was already available.
awesome. would love to know the total cost of this build at the end (not including labour).
Awesome video John, I always anxiously await your next video. Super sanitary installation. I do have one question is that a Harbor freight torque wrench that you used on the ball joints?
I didn't even use a torque wrench at all since it will have to come apart for paint. Maybe you are thinking of the Snap-On air ratchet?
Hello! Anybody complaining about the length of his videos?
better in this one ,the 2.7 4 banger with turbo . set sideways in the rear .
Wow! How did you get that anti-seize on without making a huge disaster everywhere? It's almost like you're not a messy slob or something.
No, Give Us More Video Please!
Great work John, thanks for sharing. Are you using any suspension software for your work? I *think* maybe your 350 pound front springs might be a little much compared to stock springs, but let us know :)
You could be right. Chassisworks recommended the 350s. I really don't have a way to tell until all the weight is on the car.
@@JohnReynolds661 for reference, my info shows stock LM front springs at 130 (73 at the wheel) and 150 (80 at the wheeel) HTH
Thanks Mr. Renolds, are you going to pretty up all of the areas not modified?
Oh yeah, but cosmetic stuff comes last.
Thanks for all the great videos! Getting ready to order the chassisworks double A arm suspension like you . I have a "65" I have a question if you dont mind .... What wheel hub width did you use? Thanks again
Bill Option 1 Option Code: 01 Bare Steel Finish A-Arms
Bill Option 2 Option Code: 01 Bare Steel Spindle OEM Tierod Ends
Bill Option 3 Option Code: 09 SILVER RACK 30" CSMBR & 7700 CHEVY II, 21.5" RACK CENTERS
Bill Option 4 Option Code: 30 ANTI ROLLBAR STD75 WITH 7700 CLIP & 30" A-ARM CROSSMEMBER
Bill Option 5 Option Code: 21 Coil-over & Bolts Q2 Double Adjustable Valving Varishock
Bill Option 6 Option Code: 01 Light Small Block Engine 500 lb Springs
Bill Option 7 Option Code: 21 13 -1.00 SRP Rotor 4-Piston Black Ano Radial Mount Caliper
I don't remember the numbers, but the invoice says 30" Just tell them my name for measurements to be certain. Their lightest spring was 500# and it's too stiff.
thank you ! Happy Holidays!@@JohnReynolds661
If I ever have another 80 k that I'm not doing anything with , this is what I'm doing.
How much of the front end change can be done leaving the original trunk sheet metal and wheel arches. I know that there is a bit of cutting but what is the absolute minimum possible.
Thanks
I was wondering how are you planing to let air into the former trunk for the radiator?
Air inlets will be added below the bumper later
I watched this part twice - I believe that you put the calipers on the wrong sides - the bleed screws should be on the top of the calipers, not the bottom, or you can't get the air bubbles out...
Good catch, but there are bleed screws on both ends.
Oops I mean Reynolds, sorry
Also what size of wheels and tires are you going with ?
The front are 215/50-17. The rear is 275/50-15
Can we install the hub assembly without the rest of that stuff?
Sure you can, it's all from Wilwood. There might be a dimension conflict if you're using Corvair spindles though.
Does the front double a arm kit quot any anti dive numbers ? Love to get this information
I didn't see any numbers. Their website is hard to navigate.
@@JohnReynolds661 is this kit only for rear engine applications ? The weight front rear ratio is the reason behind anti geometry questions
@@lauriedooker1031 it’s designed for front engine. They even said the numbers were copied from a C6
Do you have a complete parts list or item number for the kit I am swapping a v8 into a 74 fiat spyder and it looks like a good match but the chassis works website only shows individual parts
I used the basic g-machine kit. Their website is clumsy so you have to dig around on it. Good luck on your project, sounds fun.
@@JohnReynolds661 ok thanks I'll look again👍🏻
What year corvair is this
1967
does this mean the wife wants part of the royalties??
hey now you cheated and dident make your own front suspension? :P
Your videos are so well done, you must have a ton of hours in editing, how do you have any time to work on the car?
Thanks, editing videos is certainly time consuming. But since it's a creative process, I enjoy it.