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Domination Chassis's PINKS Car Contribution

This is how it all began. You're looking at it. After a moment of divine inspiration, Aaron

Spangler got the ball rolling with An E-mail to The PINKS producers and an open call to

Pittsburgh's biggest movers and shakers in the automotive performance industry. With a little more than 2 months total to complete a full on drag build the team members assembled at the local hooters for some beer, wings, and oh ya...What the hell we were going to bring to the show. We decided to make a melting pot each of the shops involved. Hybrid Dynamics (240 Gods) already had the beater shell down at Domination. JJ's automotive is nationally renouned for their work with late model GM's. So they hooked up the cars motivation via a 98 LS1, and 4l60E tranny 1st try engineering and Domination Chassis brought some metal manipulation that magneto would be jealous of.

 

  

You know you're in for some surprises when you start off with an abandoned vehicle. The nitty gritty consisted of stripping this old shell of all her factory equipped go slow parts.

There goes the engine, tranny, IRS assembly, and every little piece of trim. After a couple hours of tearing into her, the car was ready for the scalpel. This ain't no auto cross car. We're making way for the solid rear axle!

  
 
Finally we get to the point where we can start putting her back together. Domination Chassis got tired of dealing with other companies so now we make our own cross members and frame rails.  

 


 
We typically like to mount the main hoop directly to the cross member but that’s just not an option with such a short car, and 33” ladder bars. In short order we had this trick little pedastal mount with rocker sill bars integrated into the crossmember

After the frame rails and mounts were done, it was time to tie it all together. Domination Chassis bends all roll cages in house to fit and perform better. Knowing that the 4k stall converter and NOS were going to being doing their best to tear the car apart, we added some well placed X braces to keep it all straight.

 
 
    It can be tricky to build a car with donated parts that don’t show up until the last minute. The lack of parts created a bit of a miss step when installing the coil over cross member. The remedy looks almost as if it was planned the whole time. The little kick backs put some style into an otherwise bland spring mount.
   
  Around this point the clock was ticking, and we needed to get the bodywork started. While we were waiting for the gears, spool, axles, and c-clip eliminator for the 8.8, the car was moved to First Try  
   
    Looking a bit worse for wear, Domination Chassis’s Evan Carr, and 1st Try’s Jeff Oppenhiemer.
  Representing Pittsburgh!!!!! The black and gold 240 emerges!!!  
   
  The controversial and flawless performing, hand made front oil pan. A little Domination trick, cut the factory LS1 pan rail off and make it your way.  
    It is almost impossible to see which tubes are factory hooker, and which ones where hand made to fit the 240. Regardless, the super comps fit very well once we where done with them.
  This is what happens when your race motor comes from a rolled over car. The engine had stress cracked around the base of the wrist pin when run upside down. After a few shake down runs and the problem made its self know in a big way. Unfortunately this happened the day we were supposed to trailer it down to Maryland. Since all nighters started becoming the norm we just kept the same schedule until the car was back up and running with a 6.0 Chevy this time.  
    During the time we were doing the transplant other guys in the crew were starting to letter her up.
   
  Before you knew it though, everything was finished and we were trailering the car out to Maryland to whoop some ass.  
    We arrived just in time to make the race, and the rest was history. We won the competition, and took the losing car home.
   
       
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