I'm starting this "announce" thread to show some of the random things we're working on here at the Vorshlag shop. This includes fabrication and race prep work on customer cars, Vorshlag vehicles, new product development and production work. Enjoy.
July 29, 2014
The work below has happened in the last week or two around Vorshlag. We get some itneresting fab jobs from time to time...
Ed's Trans Am - Drag Car

One of our friends, who is also one of our vendors, keeps his 4th gen Trans Am at our shop and we do work on it from time to time. We even went with him to the drag strip last year for some shake down runs (above).

This is an LT1 powered car which had a TH400 transmission until very recently. The car has a beautiful chromoly cage and extensive lightening which resulted in a sub 2900 pound weight - and still has an iron block, all the glass, factory sheet metal and a full interior. This is an impressive amount of weight loss on this car (normally 3500 pounds).

In July a set of custom valved monotube drag shocks were added, but to allow the rears to fit required a custom "eye" style upper rear shock mount.

Those were fabricated and welded into the chassis, and a new tubular chromoly transmission crossmember and trans mount were added to hold a new, lightweight, built Powerglide transmission in place of the TH400.

We also welded up some custom shock reservoir mounts and made a new mounting bracket for the programmable shifter, shown above.
Eric's BMW 335 5.0

Eric brought us his track toy, a 2007 BMW 335 which already had a 5.0 Ford Coyote V8 installed. We have been working on the car since late May and just handed it over to the owner today.

This car came to us with a long list of safety and fabrication errors to fix, and the amount of work we did was extensive.

The work included cosmetic, structural, plumbing, cooling, wiring, and fabrication. We took the car down to the bare tub and had to re-do most of the previous work on the car, front to back. I cannot show a lot of the old work, as it will only cause grief and pain, but take my word for it - there was some scary stuff that we cut off of this car. Without trying we managed to knock 122 pounds out of this car, while doing many safety and longevity upgrades.

The car came in with transmission and diff fluid coolers mounted incorrectly and one of the coolers had been ruined. We relocated the diff cooler to exhaust out the back of the trunk and moved the pump into the trunk on a new aluminum mount. We also relocated the fuel pump and filters to a safer location and replumbed all of the fuel lines and diff cooler lines.

You can see the final location of the diff cooler, which was mounted in the trunk and exhausts out the back of the carbon trunk lid. Our fabricators made a custom shroud to duct air through this cooler, and a 3" hose draws in cool air from the rear side Lexan window, via a clear NACA duct. Lots of re-finish work was done to all four previously installed Lexan windows, which included adding painted borders, all new flush-mounted stainless steel hardware, and the proper sealant between the window and the body.

The interior was removed and a fuel cell was added to the rear by another shop, but the big gaping hole to the trunk area was left wide open. So we made a sheet aluminum rear firewall and added bulkhead connectors for the diff cooler hose, the main battery cable and an 8-pin connector for all rear chassis wiring.

We built an extensive number of aluminum patch panels in the firewall and floor, redesigned and correctly positioned the steering column and firewall mount, built new motor mounts that incorporate bushings for some NVH isolation, new brake lines throughout, and so much more.

The customer picked up the car today and it should be running on track with us at ECR on October 25th at the Five Star Ford track day. This car sounds amazing and goes like stink! Can't wait to see it hooning around Eagles Canyon.
July 29, 2014
The work below has happened in the last week or two around Vorshlag. We get some itneresting fab jobs from time to time...
Ed's Trans Am - Drag Car

One of our friends, who is also one of our vendors, keeps his 4th gen Trans Am at our shop and we do work on it from time to time. We even went with him to the drag strip last year for some shake down runs (above).

This is an LT1 powered car which had a TH400 transmission until very recently. The car has a beautiful chromoly cage and extensive lightening which resulted in a sub 2900 pound weight - and still has an iron block, all the glass, factory sheet metal and a full interior. This is an impressive amount of weight loss on this car (normally 3500 pounds).

In July a set of custom valved monotube drag shocks were added, but to allow the rears to fit required a custom "eye" style upper rear shock mount.

Those were fabricated and welded into the chassis, and a new tubular chromoly transmission crossmember and trans mount were added to hold a new, lightweight, built Powerglide transmission in place of the TH400.

We also welded up some custom shock reservoir mounts and made a new mounting bracket for the programmable shifter, shown above.
Eric's BMW 335 5.0

Eric brought us his track toy, a 2007 BMW 335 which already had a 5.0 Ford Coyote V8 installed. We have been working on the car since late May and just handed it over to the owner today.

This car came to us with a long list of safety and fabrication errors to fix, and the amount of work we did was extensive.


The work included cosmetic, structural, plumbing, cooling, wiring, and fabrication. We took the car down to the bare tub and had to re-do most of the previous work on the car, front to back. I cannot show a lot of the old work, as it will only cause grief and pain, but take my word for it - there was some scary stuff that we cut off of this car. Without trying we managed to knock 122 pounds out of this car, while doing many safety and longevity upgrades.


The car came in with transmission and diff fluid coolers mounted incorrectly and one of the coolers had been ruined. We relocated the diff cooler to exhaust out the back of the trunk and moved the pump into the trunk on a new aluminum mount. We also relocated the fuel pump and filters to a safer location and replumbed all of the fuel lines and diff cooler lines.


You can see the final location of the diff cooler, which was mounted in the trunk and exhausts out the back of the carbon trunk lid. Our fabricators made a custom shroud to duct air through this cooler, and a 3" hose draws in cool air from the rear side Lexan window, via a clear NACA duct. Lots of re-finish work was done to all four previously installed Lexan windows, which included adding painted borders, all new flush-mounted stainless steel hardware, and the proper sealant between the window and the body.


The interior was removed and a fuel cell was added to the rear by another shop, but the big gaping hole to the trunk area was left wide open. So we made a sheet aluminum rear firewall and added bulkhead connectors for the diff cooler hose, the main battery cable and an 8-pin connector for all rear chassis wiring.


We built an extensive number of aluminum patch panels in the firewall and floor, redesigned and correctly positioned the steering column and firewall mount, built new motor mounts that incorporate bushings for some NVH isolation, new brake lines throughout, and so much more.

The customer picked up the car today and it should be running on track with us at ECR on October 25th at the Five Star Ford track day. This car sounds amazing and goes like stink! Can't wait to see it hooning around Eagles Canyon.
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