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What Exactly is a TransAm Race Car? Inside Pancho Weaver's Basement Shop - Where Innovation is King

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What happens here

Utilize computer-aided design (CAD) software to precisely model the entire chassis, allowing for thorough clearance checks and geometry analysis. Employ CNC benders to accurately bend all tubing components according to the CAD model. Use robotic laser machines to cut and cope all joints, ensuring perfect fit-up and repeatability. This highly automated process, which includes tack welding and a subsequent full welding sequence, enhances consistency and reduces the need for extensive manual fitting, although final fitting with a belt sander may still be required.

Goal: Ensure precision, repeatability, and efficiency in chassis fabrication.

Tools and materials

  • Belt Sander — Fine-tuning tube joints for optimal fit
  • CAD — Designing the chassis, checking clearances, and analyzing geometry
  • CNC — Precisely bending tubing components according to CAD designs
  • Robotic Laser Machine — Laser cutting and coping tube joints for perfect fit-up
  • TIG Welder Miller — Tack welding and final welding of chassis components

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program we can compete at the top level and wax these guys pretty regularly uh every now and then you know they uh they get in there pinard's done a great job in another team this last year won the championship we've been underfunded so that kind of you know takes takes a little bit of traction out of where we need to be TransAm started in 1966 and it's where Pinsky started his racing career with the Camaros Mark Donahue parelli was in the Fords uh Dan gurnie was in the barracudas as swed Savage uh you know you had all the cool race car drivers and famous guys and our Legends right uh started in transm and they've worked their way through all these years so' 66 it started in Sebring uh the year for us starts in Sebring as well still so they've they've continued with the Nostalgia of the class and they are purpose-built race cars I mean there's no traction control there's there's no ABS you know you have to physically drive this car our particular cars are NASCAR 4-speeds with a gated four-speed transmission a lot of the guys uh run the sequential 5-speeds uh we get a little bit of a weight break and we do play The Weight game and this particular car is is completely different in its main construction um where the earlier cars for about the last 30 years have been Square tube construction kind of like this old uh 1986 transm Championship winning car this is with the Wally doback drove it to the Series Championship win in 1986 it was U sponsored by Chevrolet it was built by protofab as a Bob Riley design and Gary Pratt was a fabricator and the and Charlie celix ran the team so the three of those guys formed a a new team they were all working at Rous in in ' 85 and in ' 86 they all went on their own Journey with Chevrolet and uh they built Chevrolet wanted these cars built to run the series and uh to win the series the championship and uh it was pretty much an open checkbook and they they actually achieved it and uh this car was the V6 actually getting a little bit back and forth with different things but the V6 you could run a V6 and um you could run about 200 and some lbs lighter vehicle um because it's weight to cubic inch right rule so uh the other protofab Camaros which they had three total the first two were uh

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