Rotisserie

[71ChallengerSE]

I am considering building my own rotisserie for the Challenger to make the restoration easier. I was planning on using two 1 ton engine stands and adding hydraulics to them to raise and lower the car. How many of you have built your own rotisserie. If so how much did it cost to construct and please add your pictures.

[the_engineers]

Friend of mine built one.  I'll get it touch and get back to you.

[CHUCKS71]

I hade bought a real crappy home made rotisserie and modified it to make it fully adjustable.A friend of mine formed up some steel to make the parts that slide up and down and the rest is just some square stock.I used the rams from my engine hoist to raise and lower it.

[ksierens]

I made mine by modifing the cart I had, and since I already had some extra stock, I only had to buy about $60 of additional steel.

Mine is not adjustable, but I have not had a problem with it not being so.  I also have an 8' ceiling in my garage was is probably the reason I don't need to have it adjustable.

There are pictures of it on my web page.

[txchallenger]

I built a rotisserie from these plans.........http://www.autobody101.com/rotisserie.php
Their free

[dutch]

I build one from beams and bars ( no tube...) I had.  I jacked up the car with a floor jack and a block of wood. Because of the clamping mechanism I could easily jack it up on one side, clamp it and go to the other side. ( about 6" at a time...) It took me about 10 min. to reach the right hight.  This way I didn`t have to buy the hydraulic jacks and didn`t have to fabricate attachments to the rotisserie. I used a steel motorcycle chainwheel with some steel pins to be able to lock it in every position.
the whole thing maybe looks a little oversized...., but it isn`t... if it collapsed you would look like a pancake...

[farmertan]

bart that looks nice no such thing as overkill when safety is involved,im getting close to needing a rotiss and the guy who was going to let me use his might put his kids project on it now so i might have to build one,thanks for the posts and the links guys

[rallye73]

I was told of a rotisserie that be be for sale here locally. It's already set up for a e body. If interested I can find out more info on it.

[dutch]

.....speaking of safety...

you can take the best materials you can find, but if the welding is crap, the best materials won`t help you either...
If I weren`t a prof welder myself, I would tag it all together and have a welder finish it... 

['Cuda Hunter]

http://www.autotwirler.com/

This is what I am going to purchase eventually.
Seems my money is well spent on this.
I saw one at a car show and was very impressed. 
Watch the videos on the web site.

By building one, I not only have to pay for the materials but I have to consider my time in as well.
I figure if I build one I will spend 500.00 worth of my time doing all the welding and purchasing of materials.
For the price of a new auto twirler I think the proven safety and the lack of time building one is well worth
the money.  I could be spending time working on the car instead of time making a rotisserie. 

My two cents anyway.