My 2006 Wuerth Motorsports Build

Are the Tatum knuckles set up for a Uniball lower or you changing that to a heim with misalignment spacers?
 
Yes the Tatum spindles are meant for a lower uniball and upper heim. the Black Widow, Spyder, Evolution etc are all that way as well. The spacing was to keep my geometry all the same. appears to be 0 bumpsteer!
 
Few misc updates from the weekend:

One of the spindles was anodized black. it had been used by Tatum at a show on display years ago, and wanted to take the anodizing off. So went to town on it with a can of oven cleaner and took it most of the way off!
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Also got some bolts and cut them down to right length to ensure everything was shanked correctly and installed the 2" hallow snouts:
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Here's my spacing solution for the lower uniball to spindle:
For the upper i used one of my existing misalignments and welded a 3/8" SS spacer from Mcmaster onto it. For the bottom spacer i found a misalignment at Foddrill that made it fit perfectly into the spindle! If it works it works LOL
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Got the chassis all disassembled for the most part and started adding reinforcements. The only area I am reinforcing is the pivot tube area. other than that, this chassis has held up incredibly.

In addition to adding reinforcements, I am trying to clean up some of my old welds from years ago when i was MIG blasting with too high of wire speed!! LOL.

The weld quality on these cars was very good, so I want to be sure i keep that standard!

Something about re-fab's and add ons to existing chassis always gets me excited! I figured i would post detailed pics to show full weld/fab transparency! I'm having a tough time going over some of these old welds i did (mainly the downtubes that attach to the bottom bars on the engine cage) so thinking about covering with a gusset or fish plate. Open to any input!

Still not a pro by any means, but cool to see improvements over the years.

I've weighed everything that I've added to the car, and it will be roughly 15 lbs added to the chassis!

Here are a few work in progress photos! still a few more things to do!
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Funco4JM said:
Coming along nicely!
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Thanks Jerry! Seems like this is really the only weak point of these cars. Gotta finish the reinforcements, then the windshield and itll be ready for powder!
 
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Been busy as heck the last week or so with work so haven't had much time to mess with the car. but got the pivot tube all plated and reinforced and working on cleaning up some welds and stuff. overall, happy with how it looks! In the tight spots i just hit with the MIG. Everywhere else i did with the TIG!

Interesting thing about these Wuerth cars is the straight rear pivot tube. although it appears there is still a slight kick in the center, maybe just not as much as what is normal. the taco gussets didnt fit up perfectly on the bottom due to this, but i patched and welded up the gaps pretty nicely (forgot to take pics of that).

But anyways, i dont see this pivot tube cracking again! Lol

Here's a few pics of random weld areas as well as the overall project!
 

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Time to drop in an S4 and Blower motor!!! You gotta keep up with the Honda
 
That's definitely the future plan :cool: S4 and likely a set of twins on this LS1!!
 
Not much updates since I've been busy doing boat stuff, but refreshed my front shocks and cleaned them up pretty nicely as i hadn't rebuilt them in 4 seasons.

Additionally, was deciding if i wanted to get a windshield built from the car. decided I'm going to skip that and build a roof light rack with 5 pods (i really like @Looney Duner design so i want to build something similar to that!)

Anyways here's a photo of the front shocks just so I have some sort of image to post!

Instagram @mmp_offroad
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Spent the last couple days whipping up a light rack. The TIG was running low on Argon so said screw it and MIG welded most of it. the TIG alone would have looked prettier but it turned out good enough. For the corners, i cut a little stub of tube and cut 45's into it and grinded and DA sanded it to simulate a 90 degree bend.

Bottom bar was made out of 1" 0.120 dom tube and the rest of the assembly, .75 dom .120 was used.

Mounts are tube clamps from Kartek with tabs with 1/2" bolt hole. I TIG'd this part. A little cold in a couple spots but i liked how it looked so I left it!

I was able to pound 3/4 nuts (1/2-20 thread) into the ends of the base bar to be used for mounting!

Here's a few pics. Pretty much ready to send everything to power (will be the same color as the chassis).
 

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What lights you going with? Any reason you chose single lights vs a bar?
 
Now you can lead our night rides! Props to you for running the old school look!
 
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