what I'm staring at right here is by far the biggest single project that I've taken on to date uh real estate wise at least so as you guys saw by the title and thumbnail I'm sure building the chassis table for the charger here this is by far the right way to go about it especially where I want this car to be and what I want to build it to be um so that's kind of what led me to this decision here especially seeing that this concrete flooring here is not level whatsoever there's certain spots of it that are level but having something like this to get the entire car square and set on will by far be the way to go all this material here is 4x4 eighth inch wall uh Square stock mild steel nothing too crazy obviously these rails on the side here are going to be the side pieces these are 17 feet long a piece I might trim them down to maybe 15 or 16 I'm not totally sure but the place that I ordered this metal through I had them square cut everything perfectly uh it was not too much extra to have them do all that that way I'm not here with a cut off trying to cut everything one it saves me time which I wasn't too worried about but number two it ensures that everything is square and and uh the same length all the way across these pieces here are going to be the legs which eventually go on the bottom side of the table right here these are a foot and a half tall and these are going to be the center braces which are 55 inches long all the way across so plan going forward is basically just make a giant rectangle and then I'll have three braces in the middle these legs will be on the bottom and then once they get all the materials for the casters and then I'm going to have adjustable jacks on the side of each leg right there in order to level out this table here here's a quick rundown of exactly the plans going forward here so you can see that's the shape pretty simple we're gonna have this outside perimeter then we're gonna have these three braces in the middle like I mentioned the first brace is going to go underneath the front suspension the rear brace is going to go underneath the rear end and then the center one will end up somewhere kind of in the middle I'll probably end up putting in the middle of the table which will end up under the transmission hopefully so that'll be some bracing for that because eventually what I I want to do is once I get the body mounted on here then I'll Mount the rear end with some plates to the table Mount the front suspension with some plates to the table Mount the rails to the table and then I can go through and build the rest of the chassis uh the cage and the suspension around that just some quick measurements the pinch welds on the charger are 57 inches across obviously we got a four inch uh plate that's going to be sitting on which is this essentially and we'll have one inch of this sitting underneath the rocker and then three inches off to the side so then it can slide a two inch wide spacer in between the rocker and the table and that's how this body of the car much the table itself [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] have it all these pieces are now tacked together as you can see everything is square I had to go through a couple times once again and I don't know kind of you know put some pressure on some pieces make sure everything was Square got it all leveled out right there so I'm very happy with the way this is turning out so far I think I'm gonna go ahead and just leave everything tacked together for now until I get the legs on and then once I get the legs welded on and the adjusters for the legs welded on the side of those I'll go through flip the table over level it all out on the ground and then once that's good I think I'll weld it when everything is actually level that way I saw another guy do that in a video and I think that's going to be the best way to go about it so now tomorrow I will start working on the legs I got my whole process for the adjuster screws on the side designed up I just got to go buy the material and then once the casters get here we'll officially weld the legs on but so far so good just take some time take some patience and uh yeah still a lot of work ahead I think I got my plan for the adjustable side casters and or legs I guess if you want to call them that all figured out here so this is kind of the quick math on what we're looking like what I really wanted to do was have these thread rods on the side here along with casters uh because if it was just sitting on the casters one it would move around two like I mentioned earlier no concrete floor is ever level so with these raising up and down I can then level out the table to my liking step one on this was figuring out what size thread Rod I want to use this is just one inch diameter thread Rod biggest I had it'll work I think that it's going to be plenty strong to lift this uh table here and then I just got two threaded nuts right here as well that will be welded onto the side leg itself so I got all that measured out where that's gonna be this is a quick eyeball of what the spacing is I'll have to actually dial it in before I go through and weld everything but it'll look something like that debating on if I want to add a brace off to the side right here or off any side we'll kind of see what it looks like once it is uh or these are welded to the leg on the side here and then the casters are just some basic uh four inch casters I think each of these can lift eight or nine hundred pounds a piece so between six of those I mean whatever the math equals out to should be plenty strong here each one will also be rotating which is nice and then this as you can see just hangs over the edge Just a Touch there so I'll go ahead toss some beads on each side of those follow my uh measurements here get everything dialed and I got six of these to make now one final thing I forgot to mention really quick is I don't want just this thread Rod sticking onto the ground so once these are done I'll go through and take some tubing here I'll cut this down to whatever height I want at the end and then I'll put maybe an eighth or quarter inch plate on the bottom side of this and I can't weld it to this because if I had welded this would hang off the side you won't be able to turn the casters so once I get this down in the designated spot and it starts to lift the table up well then I can just go through Slide the plate on the bottom and then obviously turn this a little bit more down and that'll push down on that which reminds me another thing I forgot to mention is on the top of this in order to turn it I'll have these nuts here welded to the top like so I think these are oh I forget what size these are but I'll weld those to the top that'll be flat right there that way I could just toss the ratchet on and uh turn these up or down there foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign going on here building these Lakes they just wrapped up welding the nuts on it was four of the legs um I gotta go grab the right side of the cigarette the smaller one on accident for this guy but once that is done right onto there put the bottom one off the big thing is just going through double triple checking measurements making sure everything's lined up making sure it could spin the thread Rod adjuster by hand I do not find anywhere and obviously you know level this way it's not going to be crooked so taking my time getting that all dialed I got one here completely wrapped up um and painted even you can see I added these place on the side these brace end plates and that was definitely the ticket so I'm very happy with the way that guy turned out uh they're just getting into plates on the side I got to go cut them all out because these legs here and which specially means get one down and now five to go no I said I wasn't gonna weld this up fully until I got it on my legs and got everything level but I decided this was just gonna be 10 times easier to go this route so I went through welded up every side there I think it turned out pretty good so it was a ton of work I am happy with it though you see these it was pretty decent there so I really wish I could have welded this all with 035 wire but that thing only goes to o25 so it is what it is I look pretty good I'll take it um and then I got the legs all wrapped up here so you can see all six I got them all painted so the final step here is to take these guys and stick them on this [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] there we go get all the triangle bracing welded in it was a lot of work measuring that all up getting it all prepped welding everything in place I'm very happy with the way that these uh here turned out so look pretty good that is super strong now it's pretty strong originally but now I'm feeling a lot better about it so that is not going nowhere oh those are done I got to tape those off Prime and paint all the bare metal sections I don't want it to rust I'm just going to do the same thing I did for the bottom of the casters there we'll just do that in uh satin black I think that'll look pretty good then I gotta flip the table over that's going to be a process in itself and then da the top sections where I welded the cross braces to the outer frame and then this thing will officially be done wrapped up the last two things needed for the chassis table here one being uh priming and painting all the bare metal spots all the joints was all welded up that was a process in itself uh measuring everything out to get each spot painted and then painting and all was kind of a mess but I got it uh got it done and then the second thing was making these little like hockey puck looking things for the thread Rod to sit on when they uh get screwed down just so thread Rod isn't sitting on the concrete but with that being said this thing here is officially complete and uh man it is cool to see that all done and all together after I don't know maybe a week and a half two weeks worth of work I don't even know how many hours into this yeah that's uh that looks pretty sweet here I'm very happy with this all you can see the thread rod and those little hockey puck things I was telling you guys about I ended up just going with some uh eighth inch plate just what I had laying around with some eighth inch wall tubing and then I got it welded on on the inside just so it looks cleaner you can see these are free floating right there I'll toss in a clip of me actually raising and lowering this thing but it works pretty simple as you can see um once I get the table moved you know in a spot I'll need to move it I'll have to move the casters so all in a line in order for me to slide that little plate under there like you can see but everything goes up and down relatively smoothie so gonna be happier with that as you can see all these are painted now the bottoms were painted originally obviously from when I did the casters and then I went through taped everything off here so it goes two inches out from the side on each one and then goes three inches forward and then on those it goes five inches down right there so as you can imagine that was a lot of measuring drawing and then taping and masking all this off this is already starting to get scratched up it'll probably rub off eventually but at least right now it's preventative it's going to be tricky space wise once the car is actually in here on the table I mean this thing alone takes up a lot of space and the car is obviously wider than this so I don't know I'll figure it out I don't think it'll be a huge issue one thing I was worried about the beginning but am I actually thankful I did it this way and happy about how it turned out is the height of this I thought it was going to be too tall originally um because if you have it too tall it's going to be hard you know to lift stuff on top of but the nice thing about it being taller is there's plenty of space to crawl under there and uh work from multiple angles if something's got to be done on the bottom side of the car which is nice you can you know drag tools under there which is good and plus having these Open Spaces in between the braces is going to be easier for that as well that is going to do it for the chassis table video here I hope you guys enjoyed that or at least found it somewhat useful if you're looking to make one of these I watched a ton of videos gathering information from a whole bunch of different people in order to put together a game plan and some ideas for this so this is what worked for me might not work for everyone this is kind of the budget friendly version of how to build one unfortunately you either way you'll look at it it's not going to be necessarily cheap just because obviously the metal is so expensive but everything else I feel like you can do for a pretty decent price especially if you're doing the work all by yourself and I think in the end this cost me about a third a little less than a third of what it would have cost to buy like a unipro or unijig Pro uh chassis table so obviously this one doesn't have the gadgets and all the you know threaded holes and all that fancy stuff but it'll work for what I'm doing and I'm excited to get the car on here appreciate everyone watching though I'm sorry it's been a week or two since I got the last video out but this project obviously took quite a bit of time so next video we'll be getting the car on this thing and uh start mocking up some of the bigger pieces [Music] all right