Get Ahead On Your DIY Project With S&W’s Chassis Blueprints

The ultimate do-it-yourself (DIY) project for a drag racer is arguably building a new chassis from scratch, beginning with raw-stock chromoly or mild steel tubing and constructing a jungle-gym of perfectly measured and angled bars to fit within the confines of their chosen make and model of vehicle body. This, of course, can be a significant undertaking with no numbers to get you off on the right foot. Thankfully, the team over at S&W Race Cars can save you perhaps days, weeks, even months of work on your garage project.

S&W, a longtime and highly respected builder of complete race cars and chassis components, has over the years crafted a whole series of blueprints for popular makes and models of domestic vehicles spanning several common generations, all a result of the many in-house chassis builds the company’s veteran fabricators have built for their customers.

The blueprints, affordably priced at $225, span four pages, printed on 2-foot by 3-foot pages, and include all of the bar angles and lengths required to construct chassis that perfectly match the body. Each full body kit blueprint is intended to meet SFI spec 25.4 (7.50-8.49 E.T. at 3,600-pound max weight). From the many generations of Camaro and Mustang, to altereds and dragsters, the series includes virtually anything you might want to build. Not only are these blueprints ideal for at-home DIY projects, but even chassis shops can eliminate a lot of headache, time, trouble, and cost by relying on the effort that S&W’s team has already put in to develop these plans.

If you’re set to DIY your project and want to get several steps further ahead in the process, S&W also has a complete lineup of pre-bent roll cage and chassis kits for many of the most popular body styles for drag racing. Each chassis kit ships with the set of blueprints, so you’ll have both the pre-bent and ready tubing and the detailed instructions to make it all happen. Just add skilled welding and you’ll be off to the races.