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Inside Detroit Speed: Making Muscle Car Suspension Parts & World Class Custom Builds!

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What happens here

The video moves to the design office, where engineers like Pete use CAD software (SolidWorks) to create all Detroit Speed products. The process starts with obtaining CAD data of the original vehicle's chassis, inner fenders, and floorpans. Engineers then design the suspension around these constraints. The example shown is the C10 front suspension kit, including a lower cradle, upper and lower control arms, a rack and pinion steering system, a forged drop spindle, a hub pack setup, a coil-over kit, and a new front sway bar. This modular, bolt-in kit allows customers to upgrade their vehicles with improved geometry and modern components. The video emphasizes that all forgings and castings are made in the USA.

Goal: Demonstrate the initial design and engineering phase using CAD software.

Tools and materials

  • C10 Front Suspension Kit Detroit Speed
  • CAD Software — Designing car parts and analyzing fitment and geometry
  • Computer Workstation — Running CAD software and displaying designs (multiple monitors are common)

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made all of our parts here at detroit speed start off with um one of the eight engineers that we have on staff here so they will start from scratch they'll get cad data from the original frame the original car inner fenders whatever the restriction of the suspension might be floor pans and so on they'll scan that into their system here um in the cad and then they'll build the suspension around it um we do more than one level of suspension we'll do an entry level affordable entry uh kit good geometry improvements and then we'll do the macdaddy all out where we'll do a full frame a hydroform frame um or in a lot of cases a front cradle so uh pete one of our engineers here he worked on the c10 front suspension for us this is our our test car that we have so this is the mack daddy as we call it the the big speed max that we came out with so this kit you get a lower cradle upper and lower control arms a rack and pinion a new forged spindle that is a drop spindle it comes with a hub pack set up coilover kit and a new front sway bar so everything you need to do and the the nice thing about this kit is it bolts right into the car right into that truck how many times does solidworks crash on you a day uh at least i don't know it depends on what build we're on i stayed on the old build so it only crashes like twice but lake over here he got up to what service pack four and it only crashes like what six times a day yeah something like that i think so many people have a record something that we do here at detroit speed is all of our forgings and our castings are all done here in the u.s so on this particular c10 we have our steer arm right here it's forged steel our upright right here it's forged aluminum and then even on this kit we have a cast iron upper shock mount so that's something that we do here at detroit speed that's a lot different than what our competitors do so so these guys up here all design everything once they approve it and they got it done and they're happy with it they'll kick it down to us down in production and we'll head that way right now to building two all right that's the cool

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