Rocket Racing Wheels 1973 Camaro build by Big Oak Garage

[RocketRacingWheels]

Check out those wide hips on the Rocket Attack Camaro! Shown here over 335 BFGoodrich Rivals and 18x12 Rocket Attacks. @bigoakgarage got mad skills! Lots of progress since the Art Morrison IRS install. Check it out and stay tuned here for more updates! #iwannagofast .

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[RocketRacingWheels]

Dang! If the wide-body Rocket Camaro were a girl, you might say that she’s got the all the right curves in all the right places! Pretty amazing work by @bigoakgarage considering she’s squaring up on 335 BFG Rivals and 18x12 Rocket Attack Wheels at the corners. Stay tuned here for more updates!
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[RocketRacingWheels]

Here’s a couple of video updates on the Rocket Attack Camaro build at Big Oak Garage. Size DOES matter!


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[RocketRacingWheels]

Rocket Attack Wide-Body Camaro Update: Big Oak Garage now has all the bones in place and moving onto to the skins. Lighter, Stronger and Faster!!!! Stay tuned here for more updates.
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[70Uglybird]

I was hoping to see it with 11's and 315's!!! Nice car!

[c4racer2]

Was the initial set-up 11's and 315s square? Or 275/315?
Also - did you mini tub the car to fit 315's with the original DSE quadralink?

[RocketRacingWheels]

I was hoping to see it with 11's and 315's!!! Nice car!

Thanks! We started down that road and decided to fit 12's and 335's. We are also setting the car up so that we can scale down and run 10's on 275's and 11's on 315's. Good Guys Autocross rule changes based on tire sizes swayed us to be able to run in any class.

[RocketRacingWheels]

Yes, last year car had DSE Quadralink and 10's squared up on 275's. We now have fitted an Art Morrison IRS and squaring up on 12's and 335s. We may switch out to smaller tires to run in Street Machine Class or Pros however. Can't wait to get it on the track soon.

[c4racer2]

Looks like 335 requires flaring front fenders and losing the inner fenders.

What about 315s? Were you able to make those work with stock inner / outer fenders in the front? I assume that is on a 11" with 6" bs?

I ended up installing a .25" spacer on my set up - Attack 18x10 6" bs w/ 275 only to clear the DSE control arm of all stupid things. On a factory frame. Maybe the DSE front frame locates it slightly differently. But I ended up rubbing the wheel to the upper ball joint area on the DSE arms at full lock on the drivers side only. Some minor grinding to the ball joint pocket would have fixed it - but the spacers give me a bit more clearance to the sway bar anyway and the slightly wider stance looks better, plus no issues with fender clearance or anything at 5.75" bs with 275's anyway.

I got the shirt David - thanks btw!!

[RocketRacingWheels]

Looks like 335 requires flaring front fenders and losing the inner fenders.

What about 315s? Were you able to make those work with stock inner / outer fenders in the front? I assume that is on a 11" with 6" bs?

I ended up installing a .25" spacer on my set up - Attack 18x10 6" bs w/ 275 only to clear the DSE control arm of all stupid things. On a factory frame. Maybe the DSE front frame locates it slightly differently. But I ended up rubbing the wheel to the upper ball joint area on the DSE arms at full lock on the drivers side only. Some minor grinding to the ball joint pocket would have fixed it - but the spacers give me a bit more clearance to the sway bar anyway and the slightly wider stance looks better, plus no issues with fender clearance or anything at 5.75" bs with 275's anyway.

I got the shirt David - thanks btw!!

Cool. Yeah, we had the same issue on the Drivers side rubbing with the DSE sub frame last year when running 18x10 on 275 tires. We were in the middle of the season and to get by added 1/4" spacers as well.
We had to modify the inner fenders as well last year. With the 335's this year on 18x12s, we'll make new inner fenders I suppose. Going forward, when we throw 18x10s and 275's, we'll have 4.50" backspacing and 18x12 with 6.00" backspacing. I suppose if we land on 18x11 set, would be 18x11 with 5.00". We just wanted ability to run any of the classes.

[RocketRacingWheels]

Check out the metal magic @bigoakgarage has done to wide body and fit 18x12 with 335 BFG Rivals on front of the Rocket Attack Camaro!
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[RocketRacingWheels]

Some pics from the slicing and dicing to fit 18x12 Rocket Attack Wheels and 335 BFG Tires on the corners of the Rocket Widebody Attack Camaro.

[RocketRacingWheels]

The Rocket Attack Camaro finally made it out into the Sunshine today! There is light at the end of the tunnel. We are chomping at the bit to go racing!

[jlcustomz]

Metalwork looks good. Don't think the average person would catch on to what all work just happened without it being pointed out or a side by side comparison to a stock body.

[langleylad]

Nice ! I can totally appreciate all the work that went into this mod !

[RocketRacingWheels]

Nice ! I can totally appreciate all the work that went into this mod !

Thanks!

[RocketRacingWheels]

Metalwork looks good. Don't think the average person would catch on to what all work just happened without it being pointed out or a side by side comparison to a stock body.

Thanks! That was the idea behind it. Square up 335 tires on the 4 corners without losing the overall look of original car. Thanks again.

[Motoracer838]

The Rocket Attack Camaro finally made it out into the Sunshine today! There is light at the end of the tunnel. We are chomping at the bit to go racing!

I'm just gonna' call it like I see it... Hips n lips. Just too cool.

Joe

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keep going

[RocketRacingWheels]

I'm just gonna' call it like I see it... Hips n lips. Just too cool.

Joe

Thanks Joe!

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keep going

Thanks. We plan on it. We're just a few days from completion.