Pro stock chassic?

[John Pol]

I`m scratchbuilding my first chassic for a 80 Camaro Pro Stock. What size of tubbing do you guys use for the chassic? What size of rod to you guys use? And also do you make jig if so what do you to make one? Do you draw all dimensions on graph paper? Any help would be great would love to learn how it to get to this point

[Skypower]

What scale are you building most use 080 rod for 1/24 1/25.

Edited February 18, 2014 by Skypower

[Mooneyzs]

Hey John... Here is a link to tubing size chart I made for all scales That may be of some help for you for the tubing sizes:

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=70954

[John Pol]

I`m doing a 1/25th scale thx chris for the link

[tubbs]

What scale are you building most use 080 rod for 1/24 1/25.

agreed. as far as the graf paper, that is totally up to the individual, I think it will help out, but I have never done it that way, thay say to put wax paper over the graf paper so the glue doesn't stick to the paper.

[astroracer]

Get one of those self healing cutting mats. They have a nice grid layout built right in and you can use that to keep things square while glueing. If you make a nice board to put the mat on you can also pin through it to help keep parts aligned while you are mocking things up.

Do a google for some of the chassis builders out there in the 1:1 world. Chassis Works is a nice site and you can look at what most of the mainstream cars are running for chassis.

Most chassis will be built out of 1 3/4" round tubing making up most of the main cage. That scales down to .070 in our 1/25th scale world. I wouldn't use anything much bigger as it starts to look clunky. Plastruct has tubing and rod available in .060. Pick up a couple of bags of that, (1 1/2" scale) and a bag of .040 (scale 1" tubing). You can build a very realistic chassis with those two sizes.

The best thing you can do is research. Know what you are building and keep things in scale.

Mark

Edited February 24, 2014 by astroracer