Wheels & Tires - Mini tub time

Ok guys and girls here we go for my first post.
I have a 1984 transam that i have rebuilt from the croung up. I have nothing on the car that is not new pretty much. Well a while back my friend bought me some corvette wheels 18's. 8.5 in front and 10.5's in the rear (thanks 00vert-z) well i purchased the tires for them and i went with 315-30-18 bfg g force drag radials. Well in order to get this to fit on my car i had to use 2" spacers all the way around. I do not have a issue with the front but in the rear the spacers make the tires stick out about 3/8". So what i have decided to do is a mini tub. I looked on the web for information on this and did not find muck with the information needed to do it yourself. so i decided to take a week off of work and grow some balls and jump on it. I have started on the pass. side of the car and cut out the old wheel well at the seam and all the way back to the flat backing plate. the issued with these cars is the section where the seatbelt is bolted to and the section where the bump stop is. these two areas is wht the car needs to be tubbed. i cut the bump stop off and this gave me another 3/4" to 1" at that point and getting rid of the seatbelt frame will give me another 2"+ at that point. i have been taking pictures and writing notes on everything i have done and plan to post everything here. if you have any questions or feedback on this project please reply. if you want to be a dick and just give me hell find somewhere else to reply thanks :thinker:

i'm interested to see some pics. fab work gets the wheels in my mind turning

give me a little while and i will have pics up

Ok guys and girls here we go for my first post.
I have a 1984 transam that i have rebuilt from the croung up. I have nothing on the car that is not new pretty much. Well a while back my friend bought me some corvette wheels 18's. 8.5 in front and 10.5's in the rear (thanks 00vert-z) well i purchased the tires for them and i went with 315-30-18 bfg g force drag radials. Well in order to get this to fit on my car i had to use 2" spacers all the way around. I do not have a issue with the front but in the rear the spacers make the tires stick out about 3/8". So what i have decided to do is a mini tub. I looked on the web for information on this and did not find muck with the information needed to do it yourself. so i decided to take a week off of work and grow some balls and jump on it. I have started on the pass. side of the car and cut out the old wheel well at the seam and all the way back to the flat backing plate. the issued with these cars is the section where the seatbelt is bolted to and the section where the bump stop is. these two areas is wht the car needs to be tubbed. i cut the bump stop off and this gave me another 3/4" to 1" at that point and getting rid of the seatbelt frame will give me another 2"+ at that point. i have been taking pictures and writing notes on everything i have done and plan to post everything here. if you have any questions or feedback on this project please reply. if you want to be a dick and just give me hell find somewhere else to reply thanks :thinker:
Pay attention ladies and gents, this guy is as good as I've seen for a "shade tree" fabricator. I've seen some truly sick shit that he's built!!:nod:

Can't wait to see them 'meats' out back.

Can't Wait! :nod:

Ok guys i have ran a little behind due to my wifes grandfather passing away. This took two days from the time off to get the tubs done. I got out to the shop today and made the template, cut out the sheet metal and spot welded the pass. side tub in place. Unfortunatly I blew out a welding tip so I need to go get another. I am getting ready to go to the track to watch test and tune night now , but I will get back on the mini tubs in the morning. I should have the pass. side done before tomorow night. I will start posting pics when I get done with this side

I am getting ready to go to the track to watch test and tune night now , .....

i wish it was warm enough here to have test and tunes. damn southerners lol .:drive:

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=113666200&albumID=2374121&imageID=36917147 Ok i finished the passanger side tub today and i think it went well. I am including the link to my myspace pics i put a comment on all to give a step by step of what it took to do this.

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=113666200& albumID=2374121&imageID=36917147

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=113666200& albumID=2374121&imageID=36917147

Tres's profile is set to private. This user must add you as a friend to see his/her photos.

i have 92 camaro with 17x11's i used 1.25" spacer in rear and then just bfh'd a little and they fit beautifully

:Dfor the guy that said my profile is set to private i just clicked on the link above and it went to the pics of the wheel tubs. when you get to the page just hit next in the right hand corner. i also put comments under each picture. sorry it didnt work before but it should now.:D
let me know if you have any more issues with the pics.

chevboy28 what is the backspacing on your wheel you used? before i decided to mini tub i was using a 2" billet spacer and this barely cleared in back and it also made the tire stick out about 1/4 to 1/2" on each side. the wheels i am using are 18"x10.5" with a 8" back spacing you must only be running about 5 1/2"-6" backspacing. if so this is why a bfh worked on your car. if it is more than that i have no idea why it worked. but with over 600.00 worth of g-force t/a drag radials in the rear i did not want them to rub anymore. the rubbing is what caused my transmission to go out because of the bind on the back wheels when i hit a uneven surface.

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=113666200&albumId=2374121sorry this link should send you to the thumbnails and you can click on each one to make the pic large.

lookin good my friend!

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=113666200&albumId=2374121

looks good

Thanks everyone for the comments. I am a few hours away from finishing the drivers side i have taken a good many pics of this but not as many as the passangers side. I will post them within the next few days. Also i undercoated the passanger side today to finish it off. It realy makes it look complete.
If any of you are interested in doing this and have questions about how or where to get materials let me know i will try my best to get you the information needed.

Looking good bro! No more excuses...

well i finished yesterday and it turned out pretty good i think. check it out

you did a pretty good job with the mini tub, but didn't you say you rebuilt this car from the ground up? Whats with all the grease and dirt on the rearend? Rust?

the rear is the last thing i need to replace but also the most $ i needed to do the mini tub before the rear end si i will know exactly what i need to order. but this is what i have done so far. kyb shocks front/rear, new cross drilled slotted rotors front, subframe cons., new motor, new cooling system, new bg fuel dilevery system, used drop spindles front (they dont make drop spindles for my car anymore), new lowering springs, new control arms, new panhard bar, new transmission, new crossmember with torque arm and loop, new roll cage, new seats, new gauges, new door panels, new exhaust, new wheels, new tires, new fuel cell,new ram air hood, new paint. so thanks for pointing out the one thing that is not new trying to be a dick but i think that would be pretty much everything. sorry if this seems harsh but it seems everytime someone has a post someone else haves to come alog and shoot them down in some way.