10 bolt to 8.8" conversion and "Mini 4-Link" complete! Pics
01-22-2010, 12:08 AM
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10 bolt to 8.8" conversion and "Mini 4-Link" complete! Pics Here are some pictures of the car complete. Now have an 8.8", Auburn Pro 31spline posi, Alloy USA hardened 31spline axles (drilled for Ford and Chevy 5 lug), 3.90 gears, and rear girdle cover. I have no more torque arm and I'm running a 4-link type setup, with an upper and lower adjustable rod. The car has been hooking! Launching on good concrete from ~5000rpm=the ****! The car does ride a little bumpier with the new shorter springs and all solid ends(I CNC'd at school) but is still comfortable cruisin.
Pardon the dirty car, I drove it on a rainy day before.
Pardon the dirty car, I drove it on a rainy day before.
01-22-2010, 12:29 AM
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what did you have to do to the 8.8 to make it work? brakes, spring cups, phb??? do you have more pics? i wanna do this before summer...i dream of hookin on a 5g dump...
01-22-2010, 03:58 PM
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I'll post some progress pictures when I get home if ya'll want. Still using original LT1 rear brakes just had to add one hole to mount them up, spring cups are the same, phb is the same. The rear is about 2inches shorter on each side. So you'll have to run a different back spacing. I can tuck 14in Hoosier QTP's is about the biggest. I'm running billet specialties with 5.5"bs and no spacers and thats how they tuck.
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Just used some metal sheet we had at the shop for the bracket's. Drilled the holes welded them to the tubes. Welded a bracket to the unibody (seen in pics) made some short upper control arms with some tubing we had and heim joints bought off ebay. I CNC'd the solid lower rod end's my self and put grease certs in them. It's all pretty simple. If you can't look at the pictures and see how to do it. I may want to have someone else fab the stuff up or go another route. I haven't been to the track yet but I can launch at 5k on the street with my 325/50/15 MT et street radials, ramp the 200shot (about 600rwhp with) up in 1.5 seconds and all it does is howl the tires a bit when I dump it (concrete road).
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Just used some metal sheet we had at the shop for the bracket's. Drilled the holes welded them to the tubes. Welded a bracket to the unibody (seen in pics) made some short upper control arms with some tubing we had and heim joints bought off ebay. I CNC'd the solid lower rod end's my self and put grease certs in them. It's all pretty simple. If you can't look at the pictures and see how to do it. I may want to have someone else fab the stuff up or go another route. I haven't been to the track yet but I can launch at 5k on the street with my 325/50/15 MT et street radials, ramp the 200shot (about 600rwhp with) up in 1.5 seconds and all it does is howl the tires a bit when I dump it (concrete road).
