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modified camaro/nova subframe pics

#1 Post by camaroman9 » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:19 pm

lets see em guys! im getting ready to cut mine up and buy control arms, a rack, and brakes. i want to see how everyone has done theirs. thanks guys

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Re: modified camaro/nova subframe pics

#2 Post by John_Heard » Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:22 am

Bring your Camera next time you're over at my place..

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Re: modified camaro/nova subframe pics

#3 Post by Mike Peters » Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:40 am

Seeing how John's not willing to post photos of his top secret sub-frame modifications :lol: , here's a link to the TRZ website. They have a photo of a modified unit on the front page with one side with stock shock mounting and one side modified for coil-over shock mounting along with rack & pinion steering. http://www.trzmotorsports.com/
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Re: modified camaro/nova subframe pics

#4 Post by supernova » Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:20 pm

Mine's done just like TRZ's. Some of the parts even came from them.
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#5 Post by John_Heard » Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:35 pm

I'm just trying to get him over to the house to bring my body parts... :twisted:

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Re: modified camaro/nova subframe pics

#6 Post by camaroman9 » Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:53 pm

John_Heard wrote:I'm just trying to get him over to the house to bring my body parts... :twisted:
lol. im going to bring them this weekend. im just trying to decide whether to come right after work friday or head up saturday morning.
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#7 Post by John_Heard » Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:34 pm

Cool... Make sure and let me know, we usually go out Friday Night but can make arrangements.

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Re: modified camaro/nova subframe pics

#8 Post by DOTracer » Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:00 pm

Here's a customers Outlaw 10.5 car I'm building.

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Re: modified camaro/nova subframe pics

#9 Post by John_Heard » Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:12 pm

Todd why didn't you go with heim uppers?

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Re: modified camaro/nova subframe pics

#10 Post by camaroman9 » Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:14 pm

damn cell phone internet. all i see are red x's
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Re: modified camaro/nova subframe pics

#11 Post by vegaracer » Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:47 pm

camaroman9 wrote:damn cell phone internet. all i see are red x's
You should see what you're missing. Its so purty. :smt003
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Re: modified camaro/nova subframe pics

#12 Post by camaroman9 » Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:55 pm

vegaracer wrote:
camaroman9 wrote:damn cell phone internet. all i see are red x's
You should see what you're missing. Its so purty. :smt003
lol, i turned my phone off and back on. now i am no longer blinded by red x's. i appreciate you rubbing it in though.
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Re: modified camaro/nova subframe pics

#13 Post by supernova » Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:42 am

Here's mine although it's not as purty as the pics above it works!!!!
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Re: modified camaro/nova subframe pics

#14 Post by DOTracer » Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:10 am

John_Heard wrote:Todd why didn't you go with heim uppers?
What do you mean by heim uppers?

The customer had the chassis built by a different shop. It came to us and I redid alot of the front end, but the a-arms were from the other shop. The uppers a-arms have heim ends as well as spherical bearings instead of ball joints. The spindles and shocks are Santhuff and were originally installed by the previous shop. They had a real funky/ugly flat stock upper shock mount which I removed in favor of the tube can I made up instead...much cleaner/simpler design.

The frame originally had the stock front crossmember as well as the bottom flat portion of the rear wide crossmember. We removed it all and extended the inner frame rails to make more room for the HUGE dry sump oil pan.

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Re: modified camaro/nova subframe pics

#15 Post by John_Heard » Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:26 am

DOTracer wrote: What do you mean by heim uppers?
The upper shock mounts..

Is he going to run fender well headers? We were looking at the 25.2 and 25.3 specs and those dang inner rails make it very tough to run chassis headers from what I can see.

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