Brian Whitehead's chassis build

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Tubular Front Suspension Kit

Race proven front suspension, improve your ride down the track or road and best of all you can save weight. The frame utilizes tubular control arms, Mustang II Spindles, 11” vented rotors, Mustang II rack, screw in ball joints, QA1 shocks and springs, checkout below for a complete list of the standard features:

Upper & Lower DOM Control Arms, Mustang II Spindles, Screw-in Ball Joints, 11" Vented Brake Rotors, GM Calipers & Brake Pads, Adapter Caliper Brackets
QA1 EXM Rod Ends with Teflon/Kevlar Races on Upper and Lower Control Arms
Mustang II Rack with Tie Rod Ends, Cross Member,Mounting Brackets
QA1 Aluma-Matic Coil-Over Shocks
All Bearings, Seals, Dust Caps & Mounting Hardware

9/4/07 Front coil over shocks and disk brakes and calipers on order (est delivery 9/19/07)

9/11/07 Confirmed with engine and trans builder the dimensions of the engine and carbs, his special intake will help with clearance.

Brian Whitehead's Chassis Build Project

9/12/07 Shipment arrived for Front disk brakes drilled vented, spindles and calipers, GM bolt pattern, drilled

8/31/07 Contact with Engine and Trans builder to confirm shipping address for transaxle:

9/3/07 Front suspension parts and assembly being built.

8/27/07 down payment received: (parts on order)

Images of parts as they are fabricated and arrive for the build.

Bernie Bergmann's engine/Trans will be used for this build

$10,300

9/20/07 Fabricated front suspension cross member and tabs are mounted for manual rack

10/7/07 Shocks arrived, fully adjustable coil over (front set)

10/11/07 Trans-axle arrived (see pictures below) Bernie Bergmann VW Engine specialist

10/14/07 Finalizing new roll bar main hoop to be tucked under the fiberglass body (pictures to follow)

11/5/07 Finalizing the new lower chassis frame rails (pictures to follow)

12/9/07 ordered flat ship crate .

11/9/07 Shifter, pedals new CV joints, and other parts have arrived and are being set up for installation.

1/5/08 Crate ship chassis

Note the fiberglass inside floor edge should be level to make the Sterling sit like the original, its almost level here, but still needs to go up in the rear 1" because the round tube of the chassis is straight with the ground

Parts to ship with chassis

This weeks work images

Brian I found a copy of the Youngblood Sterling in Hot VWs magazine on ebay, I should have it by next week. I will mail it to you ASAP. I will try to find the Kit Car version

We had to add the brake line metal tabs on the front.

1/5/08 Add VW frame tube for side panel sandwich.

Test fit chassis, with old engine/trans with new Sterling car body

- For all our customers we provide them with a updated personal web page for them to view and participate in their build.
- Brian's final chassis below was set up with a rear vw engine. ( follow below like he did )
- We added many custom options for him along the way.

Brian your Sterling body can be adjusted on the tube chassis to get the look you would like and fit the custom Chip Foose rims and tires you are getting made. Here are examples below. I think this is how you want your car to sit. (blue or red car larger rear tires)??

Brian from our phone conversation last week on tires and body height...... Is this the image you are talking about from the Sterling Sports Cars web site?,, You like the tires in the rear wheel openings.

You will be able to archive this if you pick the right rims. (I will try to find a copy of the original Kit Car magazine for you)