Garage Built: Building Your Own Chassis With S&W Race Cars
By
Brian Wagner July 18, 2019
Building a racecar from scratch sounds like an intimidating task, but if you start out with a solid plan, the process isn’t nearly as painful as you might think. There are some racers who have the skills to do this by creating their own plans, while others need a little bit of guidance to get the project going.
S&W Race Cars manufactures a range of chassis kits to simplify the process for the end-user, from straightforward square-tube framerails to ready-to-assemble drag race chassis kits. We talked with S&W’s staff to get the lowdown on what it takes to build a chassis from scratch using one of their kits.
S&W Race Cars is a family owned and operated business that has been helping racers build their own cars for 60 years, with a large catalog of parts and full chassis kits. They cover the full spectrum of builds, from a Saturday night bracket car all the way to a five-second Top Alcohol Funny Car. Not only do they provide blueprints and parts to complete a build, but they can also construct a car for a customer in-house from a pile of tubes to a finished vehicle.
What To Look For In A Chassis Design
Before you even pick up the phone to place an order for parts to build your car, you need to have an idea of what kind of racing you plan to do. There is no one-size-fits-all chassis for drag racing if you want to be successful, so coming into the project with a plan and defined goals are important. If you try to build a car that is good at everything you won’t have the kind of success you hoped for.