Anyone ever thought of or tried this? I had to retire my 1971 Valiant from regular street duty (It's still in my garage and in 1 piece), and I now have an 89 Omni 5 speed for a daily driver.

Naturally, I've thought of making a RWD drag racing car out of an Omni.

Of course, there are issues:

1. The firewall needs some serious chopping just to get the engine IN!

2. Steering rack should be low enough, but haven't measured anything.

3. No transmission or driveshaft tunnel to any great extent. Needs more chopping.

4. Adding a rear axle. 4 link or swingarm and coil springs? No room for leaf springs.

Anyone got any ideas here?

My 89 Omni with manual steering and no A/C weighs 2260 with tools and 1/4 tank of gas. So I'm thinking of an easy and light 2300-2400 pound car with the /6 RWD conversion in place. With some room left for even more weight loss.

You are talking about race car chassis work Tim... anything less is going to be trouble.

I have looked at getting a Slant into a lot of small / light cars, most are FWD. After I do some measurements and I see how much chassis work is needed to keep the thing from twisting in half, I chicken-out and go back to a A-body.

May-be someday I will do one of these but not this year...

GunPilot and Possum Parker are starting work on some Dodge Rampage racers, (Slantpage) may-be they can give us some pointers.
DD

Any FWD drive car you are thinking of trying this with needs to be like DD said a full tube chassis deal. Anything less and it will be a headache. The stock frames are not the beefiest in the rear.

With a tube chassis you can put the fire wall and trans tunnel anywhere you want and still leave your self leg room.

Look at Myers and rose's arrows. Both have slants in them with plenty of room. Ever look at a stock arrow and imagine putting on in it?? Nightmare!!


Tom

With the Slantpage I planned from the start to build a rolling chassis and place the body on top of it. There's no real other way to do it with that little unibody chassis.

What I plan to do is start with an A-body K-member, and build the front suspension to utilize that. Then my engine will mount up there. After I figure out a rear suspension design (see 4-link vs. ladder bar discussion) then I'll simply join the two with some subframe connectors of the right length, and voila - a chassis. (right.)

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It's a Slant thing. Even I don't understand.

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Get that Monkay! Get that nasty thing!!