FabChild

I just finished up Building a Rotisserie to do some work for a customer with a 1989 Crx Drag Car. My Brother and I have a small 1200 Sq Ft shop in Southern Cali. Figured I'd share some pics though! We Built the rotisserie on a budget and I plan to upgrade a few things on it but i'm super happy with the way it turned out and it's going to make life ALOT easier working on this car!

First we got the car onto a rolling cart I built awhile back. Took some measurements and started building the frame.


I tig welded everything except for the wheels. The wheels are really nice 6" Urethane casters rated at 900lbs a piece but have a zinc coating so Mig it was!




Not sure the exact size but we used some beefy pipe for the rotating portions.


The pipe was larger than the square tube so I put it in the press to oval it for a good fit then did a root pass and a cover pass.






I also welded two large Nuts to lock the rotation of the car on each one. Not sure the size again we used what we had in our bolt bin but there atleast 7/8ths.










More pieces for the arms that bolt to the chassis. I used the factory clamshels in the front welded to this. And did the same in the rear but with a tube that bolts to the frame rails.


Rears


All in all was a fun project!








If anything it makes for a great way to store your project and save some valuable room! lol

SovXietday

I dig it! What was the rough total cost of materials?

FabChild

About 350 but I plan on dumping another 250 into it for a beefier center support with two more casters. And two hydraulic rams to adjust the height

essex

Those are the the nicest welds on any Rotisserie ever built I think :D thanks for posting!

Blown90hatcH

Crazy man that you tig'd the whole thing. Looks sick. +1 on a center caster.

2fast4u831

Very nice man!!

FabChild

Thanks Guys! Happy to contribute! I'm using a Dynasty 200dx and It took 3 and a half days to build and get the car hung. But alot of time was thinking about the design and looking back it's actually very simple to make. I want to build a larger more beefier one in the future!

My Mig is pretty good too lol But I had a blast Tig Welding it and was pretty proud of the way it came out.

GSRinmyCRX

iTrader: (8)

did you attach it to the car where the rear bumper bolts on out back? is it balanced well the way you have it? i have been thinking about doing this.

Thanks.

Levi

ef92b

very impressive sir!

do you mind posting more pics on how it's bolted up front and at the rear?

close-up from this view:



TIA

FabChild

Yea, here is a pic of the rear. It bolts up underneath the frame rails and is very solid.



The front uses the factory clamshell and is plenty strong also. This saved some time over having to fabricate a plate to bolt to the frame rails.



It's balanced pretty good. It's fairly easy to rotate the car but you do need two people to flip it.

HellaFab

looks like in the picture with the hoist that the front sleeve part is bending down...

if you put a third caster on each of the legs coming out under the trunk/ engine bay it might straighten that out and let it rotate easier.

either that or the picture is showing a weird illusion.



Ps, thanks for the bad ideas.

FabChild

I will be replacing the center bar with a thicker one that slips over with two locking casters. But what your seeing is actually alittle slop in the slip tube to adjust the height. It is a little larger and has about a quarter inch of slop. I built the whole thing from rems I found at the metal supply to keep cost down. That's why some of the tube/pipe is rusty lol I can always replace that piece with a new one later on but it works just fine the way it is.

averyvm

iTrader: (1)

pretty cool

kruck89

This looks pretty good and seems like it could be really useful for some things. I am wondering why you chose to do this over build a chassis table? I wouldn't think you would want to use this on begining chassis stages because there will be some flex induced. I could see this being helpful once the main 10pt is done with though.

FabChild

I built the rotisserie so I could access the underbody. We removed all the undercoating and seam sealer to shave a few lbs and get it ready for paint. We are going to be finishing the rollcage as a 6 point so im going to add a -pillar bars and door bars. It's not an extreme build so something like a chassis table isin't needed. Customer plans on running 10's with a built GSR motor.

ANTI_LAG

Your back will thank you lol

spAdam

iTrader: (1)

If I had the space I would have my coupe on one of these so fast.

Nice work man.

Freemananana

iTrader: (3)

I expected to see some chickens cooking. None the less, impressive. Good welding. Mine don't look nearly that clean.

FabChild

Thanks Guys! Appreciate it. And I LoL'd Mr Donnals!

mikealike

man thats clean welds.

ferio-ichi3

That looks so cool man!

FabChild

Got the crx chassis done so I threw my personal car on there for some work! Makes Welding the underbody a breeze!!







Cheers!

Schister66

Glad to hear i'm not the only one

Clean welds...looks great

FabChild

Thanks! Got the CRX back for some more chassis work lol Figured I'd throw some pics up. Made the A-Pillar bars tonight. Going to be finishing up the cage in it and then start working on a turbo kit for it.







Tube is all 1.625 .083 4130 Chromoly. Can't wait to weld it lol

FabChild

A-Pillars came out great! Cant wait to get the cage done. We're building it to pass NHRA spec and the customer wants to run 9's now lol