Anyone working on a restomod or custom racing project will understand the frustration that comes with finding parts and understanding what is compatible. Manufacturers offer a variety of components that differ only slightly from each other, and when you are working with rally-tight tolerances, it’s never a good idea to take gamble on parts fitment. This is the reason why Chris Alston’s Chassisworks has created their new catalog: The Everything guide.

“The design makes it easy to thumb-through our products,” Lino Chestang of Chassisworks told us. We asked Lino why this website change is so crucial for those looking to buy parts from them. “We have over 10,000 finished products that we sell, everything from chassis parts and rollcages, to back half kits and wheel tubs. Our complete printed catalogs got too expensive to print and mail, as they were up to about 1,400 pages to cover everything.” When it got too cumbersome and too expensive, Chassisworks switched to CD at first, but they didn’t feel those were as impressive as a handout that included photos.

The Everything Guide can be found by clicking the link above, or on the Chassisworks website. It is also available in the form of a printed, 88 page book. The guys at Chassisworks want you to be able to quickly look through the guide and find anything you need by pictures. “Each thumbnail in the guide represents about 50 or more products,” Lino explains. “We made this to try to present a whole bunch of information in an easy to navigate system. It makes it easy to visually identify what you need. If you have a specific suspension system, everything compatible with that system is grouped together.”

In the online version of the guide, all you have to do is click on one component of the suspension system, and all compatible pieces will be displayed in the group. All of the pictures act as clickable links, and will take you to the product identified in the thumbnail. Go ahead and give it a try. Go to the Everything Guide and get familiar with it.

It’s a challenging task for Chassisworks to make a straight-forward and easy to use catalog, since some of their customers are looking for simple, bolt-on, OEM style parts, while drag race guys are looking for parts that will not fit any stock application. That is the issue that this guide tries to overcome. The guide does a whole lot more than just show you what parts are available.

Let’s walk through part of the process. From the home page of the Alston website, click the picture in the upper right corner that says “Everything Guide.” From there, select Chassisworks GM Muscle Car. Using the index, let’s pick “Torque Arm Systems” as our example. Click the image of the Torque Arm G-Connector, click the image of your car (in this case a 1967-1969 GM F-body), and finally select the specific product.

While on the product page, you can click on the “Instructions and Tech Info” tab that will take you to a list of PDF documents with complete technical information about your part, as well as installation instructions. Everything is easy to locate, and can be navigated by image. We think that’s pretty cool.

This new HTML version of the system, which offers the clickable images, was released in the first quarter of this year, making it a relatively new addition to the Chassisworks website. We think it’s a really impressive upgrade, what about you? Spend some time on the site and navigate through it. Look at some technical information. Tell us what you think, and mention anything cool that you found while looking around.