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Welding and Fabrication Processes

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

What happens here

The welding shop is where the 'dirty work' and 'fun stuff' happens. Roll cages for 2nd Gen Camaros are shown being bent and pre-fitted. Unlike many aftermarket roll cages that require extensive cutting and fitting by the customer, Detroit Speed's roll cages are precisely bent and notched, ready for installation. This area also houses the frame area, where subframes like the X-Gen 595 (59.5 inches hub-to-hub) are fabricated in specialized fixtures. Other products include C3 Corvette front frame cradles, where a precise weld pattern is followed to ensure consistent product and prevent warping. Tow hooks are integrated into these designs, highlighting practical considerations.

Goal: Showcase specialized welding and fabrication for chassis components.

Tools and materials

  • Roll Cages — Structural safety and chassis stiffening for performance vehicles
  • TIG Welder Miller — High-quality welding, preferred for its precision and clean beads
  • Tow Hooks — Providing secure attachment points for trailering or recovery
  • Tube Bender — Precisely bending tubing for roll cages and other chassis components
  • Welding Jigs/Fixtures Detroit Speed — Holding components in precise alignment during welding to ensure accuracy and repeatability
  • X-Gen 595 Subframe Detroit Speed — A fabricated subframe designed for specific dimensions and applications

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so this is our welding shop so in here this is where we do all the dirty work all the fun stuff we're welding everything that we produce here they're running uh roll cages right now so this is a second gen camaro roll cage that they're bending up so they're dialing the angles right now making sure it's within spec once they get it bent they'll bend them all and then they'll cut the ends it's something that we do differently a lot of roll cages you buy out there in the aftermarket world they're just straight tubes you got to fit into your car you got to cut it and you only got one shot of cutting and fitting it in your car both cut it most of these angles that we're cutting are compound so it's dual angles so basically the customer just has to locate in the car and it fits perfectly interesting i didn't know you guys had roll cage kits yup so on that vendor we went we bend all of our roll pages we bend all of our roll cages and we bend all of our sway bars on here's our frame area right here you can see this is the x-gen 595 so this is what man showed you under those chameles so it is just like our subframe we've got the same cross members the primary upper and lower the secondary upper and lower and those are stamped here in the us we bring them in here and then we'll locate them in this picture and weld them onto the frame rails right here and then we'll hang all of our suspension locations on our upper control arm out our coil over mount and then our lower control arm mounts it's 2x4 right here so you can graft it into any car you got so this is a 595 we call it xgen 595 and what that means is from hub to hub it's 59.5 inches so that'll fit a lot of trucks uh that'll fit your a-bodies and all that we also offer a five-three-five again which is 53 and a half inches hooked up so that'll fit kind of your smaller cars so the guys back here against the back wall they got all ventilation to them so it pulls all the fumes out when they're welded but we're welding from bracketries here these are coilover mounts that go onto the frames to control arms so between brackets and control arms themselves and weld over there this pile right here these are uh our c3 our corvette front cradles a lot of the stuff we have a wealth pattern that we do do our homework we note it and then everyone welds it the same way that way we always have the same product coming out because it doesn't warp a certain way and all that yeah so these holes here all locate to the bottom of the…

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