Hello everybody, I am working on converting a 1949 Cadillac Sixty Special to electric via a Tesla Model 3 donor car. As part of the initial teardown stages, I took off the rear subframe and the suspension arms and 3D scanned / reverse engineered them in an assembly. I posted the results on Reddit and MattsAwesomeStuff suggested I post it here as well because folks will be interested.
And a little animation of the suspension flex:
P.S. If there's interest in the car build, I can post it as well.
Tesla Model 3 rear subframe/suspension, 3D scanned and reverse engineered
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Re: Tesla Model 3 rear subframe/suspension, 3D scanned and reverse engineered
Super intresting stuff, are you able to share the asembly ?
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Yes, there is absolutely interest in the build, please post a build thread in Projects
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Re: Tesla Model 3 rear subframe/suspension, 3D scanned and reverse engineered
that's a lot of reverse engineering work! Thanks for it and for sharing!Ovidiu wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 6:31 am Hello everybody, I am working on converting a 1949 Cadillac Sixty Special to electric via a Tesla Model 3 donor car. As part of the initial teardown stages, I took off the rear subframe and the suspension arms and 3D scanned / reverse engineered them in an assembly. I posted the results on Reddit and MattsAwesomeStuff suggested I post it here as well because folks will be interested.
TM3RearSubframe.jpg
TM3RearSubframeRE.jpg
And a little animation of the suspension flex:
Flex.gif
P.S. If there's interest in the car build, I can post it as well.
Now link us to your Project Thread (viewforum.php?f=11) so we can follow along

Re: Tesla Model 3 rear subframe/suspension, 3D scanned and reverse engineered
P.S.Mangelsdorf wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 1:12 pm Yes, there is absolutely interest in the build, please post a build thread in Projects
Alright, I posted a new topic here:vwbrady wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 4:37 pm that's a lot of reverse engineering work! Thanks for it and for sharing!
Now link us to your Project Thread (viewforum.php?f=11) so we can follow along![]()
viewtopic.php?t=3410
Might take me a few days to catch up with all the progress so far.
So I'm not against sharing it, but I won't be posting it publicly for free. I'll gladly give it for free to people doing something good for the community here. PM me if you need it and we can talk.PoloLbricolo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:23 am Super intresting stuff, are you able to share the asembly ?