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Thread: 1967 Camaro Restomod "Herja"
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04-26-2019 #41Registered User
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I'm planning on having it set to have about an inch of wheel gap between the wheel and bottom of the fender which will give around 6-7in of rebound space to travel from what I've measured. Still playing around with the mounting height and may tuck it in another inch or two to give me more wiggle room on the compression travel distance, but i'm still waiting on my bushings for the rear diff to make sure we have proper tunnel clearance for the driveshaft. With that said, the suspension is going to be set up to be pretty tight, so it won't really be a massively comfortable ride compared to a normal car (probably similar to if you took a normal car and put on a set of coil overs on it) but it won't travel a massive amount. keep in mind when I change out the lower control arms it will allow the suspension to travel a little more than what you see for it being completely bottomed out.
Still a lot of work before its finalized in, but for sure a wise word of caution i'll put some more thought into. The coilover set up I have in mind so far will have a fully compressed length of around 14in and a full extended length of around 20.5in. From my estimations (still will be going through and taking more measurements here next week) will probably end up sitting at an adjustment level to have around 2-2.5in of bump travel and 3-4in of droop travel. I'm still doing more research and i might more set it up for a 50/50 split for the travel distance. Though I have read that a good DD rate is 60/40 (rebound/compression) for your suspension setup, so I've got a lot more measuring and dialing in to do.
Lot of what i've been reading shows a lot of coilover setups have around 3.5-7in of travel total, and from a few articles I've read, "Street/strip cars need roughly 40 percent of their shock travel for compression and 60 percent for rebound, as the extra extension assists in front-to-rear weight transfer."
With that said and a 6.5in travel coilover setup, you're looking to have around 2.5in of compression distance and 4in of rebound, which would sit the car about where I want it.
Idea of a few sources I've been looking at that do way better at explaining haha.
http://www.superchevy.com/how-to/cha...t-spring-rate/
I still have a lot to read up on getting my spring rate choice set correctly. As always this project is both me knocking off a bucket list goal and also to learn as much as I can!
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/fo.../102407/page1/
https://www.hypercoils.com/spring-rate-calculator/T.O.
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04-26-2019 #42Registered User
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I should have more info and posting here in a few weeks on the steering setup, it seems like a pretty easy task to build mounts to really put any sort of car or truck rack and pinion in, depending on how it goes I may adjust this part of the build, but as it stands it might cost a total of $400 bucks for everything installed from tie rods to the steering column connection.
T.O.
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04-26-2019 #43Registered User
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Looking like I want to run around a spring rate of around 200-225 for the rear from what I can tell
Used these to get a close estimate:
https://www.ridetech.com/info/tech/s...te-calculator/
https://www.ridetech.com/info/tech/vehicle-weights/T.O.
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04-28-2019 #44Registered User
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Been putting some thought more into my current wheel hub dilemma and ways to solve the issue and make life easier for me or possibly any future owner of the car if I someday sell it.
Currently, my rear hub pattern is the S550 pattern of 5x114.3, but the front hubs are still at a 5 X 4.75''.
I know I can get the front hubs re-drilled, the ass pain there though is whenever you get new rotors, you have to get them re-drilled or order custom made rotors if you want both rear and fronts to be the same hub pattern of 5x114.3 (which is what I'd rather go as it opens a lot more options up imo.
The other route I was thinking is just ordering later on some custom Forgeline wheels with the fronts having the Camaro 5 X 4.75'' pattern and the rears at the 5x114.3 but again, different hub patterns and they will require different lug sizes, as the 67 camaro stock is a 7/16-RH and the S550 is a M14 x 1.50. Hex Size: 13/16".
Any ideas for simple solutions? Something like a different hub swap for the front that is a more modern style spindle or hub setup that will mount with the stock upper and lower control arms?T.O.
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04-28-2019 #45