F-Body Steering
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F-Body Steering Any of you guys that have done a LSX swap into a first gen Camaro or Firebird I guess, did you have drag link interference with the oil pan. I'm using BRP mounts in a 1969 Camaro and my oil pan hits the drag link. I don't want to buy or cut the oil pan. I thought I saw thread about using a Chevelle drag link, can't find it now. Has anybody done this. Or can you use a drop pit man/idler arm for a lifted vehicle to drop the drag link down some? I'm trying to find some other way cause a oil pan is $400+ US for me and I don't to go with a R&P. Could I just fabricate a drop style drag link?
I would change the pan. You can really mess up the steering angles and bumpsteer when you start changing pitman and idler locations etc.
I set my engine back to avoid pan interference with the stock drag link.
New pan is your best bet, Autokraft, moroso, etc.
I set my engine back to avoid pan interference with the stock drag link.
New pan is your best bet, Autokraft, moroso, etc.
I was also researching for other options. there was an older thread about using a F-Body pan and able to use some shorter Idler and Pitman arms.. search on "Pitman arm" it was by LS1Nova99... he list some of the part numbers.
I think he was also using Hooker plates which put the engine a lot farther back.
