Disco Trans Am Project

[gmcdermit1]

The filler pieces were right at 2.75" wide. The wheel well looks huge now and it was almost free other than welding wire, a little filler metal and some time. I'm sure it will swallow a huge tire now. A 335 should easily fit. I had a 295 50 15 on it stock, but with a little hammer persuasion back in the day, and it would only rub when you really leaned on it. It should fit anything I will want to put on it and when it's done, blasted, and a skim coat of mud and some truck bed liner it'll look great.

[WS6]

That's awesome! One of my hang ups with mini tubbing the car was cutting the rear frame rail. I figured I should be able to move the well over against the frame rail and gain a little bit of room. Keep us informed on what size rim and tire you do get under there

[cdoggy81]

That turned out very nice!

[NOT A TA]

Are you going to run leaf springs? I never really closely examined the setup on late 2nd gens other than doing the BFH mod to the seatbelt hump in my stepsons 79 Z about 15-18 years ago.

On my early 2nd gen bird the springs are only maybe 1/4" in farther than the inner wheelwells which are right on the frame. I run 315's and they'll just touch the inner fenders when I push the car really hard through corners on a road course. I'm going to install a panhard bar.

I'm curious how you can gain anything without cutting the frame or moving the springs. Is the frame in farther on the later models?

[gmcdermit1]

The suspension will be modified, the tubs are right on the lip of the frame where it mounts to the trunk floor and follow it. It actually looks pretty good and really, really opens it up.It also allowed me to cut all the rust y areas out and get back to good steel both in the wheelhouse and trunk. MY leaf spring mounting buckets were rusty so I will be rebuilding this area anyway.You could build or buy some offset shackles and notch the frame very easily and move your leafs in about 1.75" or so.This would not be too difficult for a competent fab guy but I will probably be going with a 3 or 4 bar setup. I will probably design something similar to the prodigy setup. It looks nice but it's not in the budget for me. I can build something pretty cheap as I already have the coilovers so I just need to but the rod ends or joints and the tubing. I love the lateral dynamics setup but don't like the interior intrusion. I would like the interior and exterior of this car to look very close to original.

[gmcdermit1]

Well, I got the drivers side of the floors about done and found a bunch of cancer in the spring pocket and lower frame area(I knew it was there, but it was worse than I thought once I started poking). So...I cut it all out since the mini tub job will call for a custom suspension anyway and I will just rebuild this area to incorpate the frame connectors into the good part of the rear frame and box in a nice, clean, and heavy duty area for link mounts. No need for any use of the factory stuff. I think it'll look pretty good. I do still have to patch up the rear seat pan before I go much further. It is starting to look like something now though. I really like seeing the rust slowly disappear.