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I cut the torsion bars off the bravada chassis, and inserted category 0 tractor top links in place of shock absorbers. That way I can adjust the attitude of the frame section when welding into cougar subframe. I noticed that the Bravada front anti-sway bar is 1.25" whereas the cougar one is 1.125". A little bonus.
I am using a first gen Bravada because it has a mechanical AWD system and a narrower track than later models. The Bravada track measured 4.25" less than the cougar. Although, the Bravada also uses a wheel with a positive offset. Hopefully I will be able to fit a wider tire in front.
ambitious project your taking on there will be interesting to watch.
I have never autocrossed anything but isn't small cubes and turbo the opposite of what you would think would work best? I am thinking instant on and off power like more cubes and an sc would provide would match the task better but again I have never done it so wtf do I know lol
Thanks for your interest. Some of the fastest cars I've seen in autocross have been small cubes, AWD and turbocharged. They don't look as cool as a cougar though. This shouldn't be too difficult of a mod. I'm used to doing a lot of metal fab.
I just cut the doner frame section and brought it home.
This is the last rig i built and my current daily driver. Custom 3-link front suspension with 18" coilovers, dana 60s, and a 4 cyl cummins turbodiesel. Oh, and it was in the dec '14 issue of Four Wheeler magazine.
Says the guy who apparently has roughly 1,000,000 times the mod skills that I have!
Lol. I haven't seen it all, know it all, or have done it all. All I'm doing is patching in a frame section with suspension that has been engineered into a subframe with roughly the same dimensions. No rocket science involved. Its not like I'm engineering suspension and steering components from scratch. Already did that on my bronco. I just wanted to try something different.
Anyhow, tonight I'll be moving crap around in my shop so I can get the new frame member in front of the car so I can get some precise measurements before I get the Plasms cutter fired up. Cleaning grunge off cougar frame and sanding down to bare metal at patch junctions........after I drill 12- 2' wide holes 4' deep for the neighbors pole barn.....after work.
This is the last rig i built and my current daily driver. Custom 3-link front suspension with 18" coilovers, dana 60s, and a 4 cyl cummins turbodiesel. Oh, and it was in the dec '14 issue of Four Wheeler magazine.
Its amazing how many honeydo things my wife can come up with. All I succeeded in doing so far was to make enough room in garage to bring the Bravada frame section in.
Tonight I did a bunch of measuring. I cut the rear section of the Bravada frame15&1/8" behind the hub centerline with my plasma cutter. I will cut the front section of the Bravada frame 19&1/2" front of hub centerline which will be about an inch behind the rad core support.
The Bravada rear driveshaft yoke is a bit bigger than the cougar one. 1 & 7/8" verses 1 & 1/2". Bravada output shaft is 32 spline. I'm assuming that the TC input is the smaller 27, or 28 spline. I was originally going to use the 4L60 transmission, then beef it up after it breaks. But, I think that I'll use a TH400 instead, and change the axle ratios from 3.73 to 3.08.
With a turbo 4.8 you would grenade the 4l60e. The 400 will be a lot stronger.
Yes. I agree. I would rather only have to build driveshafts once. I thought I read on syty.net that the '94 typhoon transfer case had a 32 spline input shaft. I guess it would be too lucky to have the 32 spline input in my '94 brvada transfer case. I'll pull it off the back of the 4L60 tonight to confirm.
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