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lifting a 3rd gen camaro
- Thread starter BackDoor-Banditt
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Brians89K5
1/2 ton status
A spring kit will screw with the camber on the front of the car. If you don't want to donate the body to a 4x4 frame it is going to take some extreme fabrication to get it lived up 3 inches and keep geometry anywhere close to correct. The front end is a strut and A arm which means any bit of lift or much lowering throws the camber way off. The unibody makes for an impossible body lift and then the rear end is another headache. You would have to redesign or at least lengthin the track bar the trailing arms would have to be lengthened then you would have to re-inforce the body so the rear end wouldn't tear awawy from the body from the extra angle and force applied to the car. I'm a third gen camaro guy and Id rather see that thing repaired or at least scraped for the good parts. It really bothers me when I see people do those things to these cars. Hit or not why rape the poor car and make it do something it wasn't intended? Either way, the choice is yours just get ready to re-design the wheel while you do it. G'luck my man.
~Brian
~Brian
BackDoor-Banditt
Registered Member
well yall i went to pirate and got raped! they tore my ass up, thanks alot guys that really helped, but i did find someone who was willing to help so i geuss it wasnt a whole waist of time
Nah dude you got off easy if you had posted later in the day you would have really caught it
NoReGrEtS
1/2 ton status
do you have any pics of this soooo called off road camaro???
this has to be a joke
this has to be a joke
ProJunkRacing
1/2 ton status
lmfao
they make trucks for a reason, please dont wheel your car
81K5GUY
1/2 ton status
somebody here has backdoorbandit under there screen name for a title but cant remember who it is .I figured he was screwing with us
littlejimmythatcould
1/2 ton status
Here ya go.... only picture your camaro up there.... I'm all for it! But you would probably have to stick to mud since you would have the cargo area to store needed tools for anything else and a cargo rack would look kinda goofy on a camaro, but then again some people would think that a camaro would look goofy lifted up. I got a buddy that has a lifted up elcamino on a blazer frame. I think that would definately be the way to do it since the camaro frame is wimpy, even with subframe connectors. Just my 2 cents.
this is freakin' hilarious. I didn't know he started here, I saw this on Pirate and thought he hadn't found us yet.
-Avery
-Avery
hawkeye649
1/2 ton status
Avery4jc said:
There is a 4 door lincon (I think, not great with cars) like 80's on what looks to be a toyota frame round here with some narly tires. If it didn't have toy running gear under it, but some good chevy stuff I'd probably buy it. Don't know if I'd wheel it and then canabalize it, or just canabalize it. I saw a pretty cool lookin' like 50's caddy on an extended crewcab long bed frame on here once. I'd pimp that.
As to the camaro, I see 1 of 2 possibilities.
1: Skid plate for the oil pan.
2: Frame swap.
kid around heres got an elcamino with a 327 out of a vette on a blazer frame on 33s. it looks ok cuz it kind of a truck, but i wouldnt do a car period.
Yeah there's an El Camino around here like that too. He's running some pretty big boggers tucked up under it. I think K5/El Camino are as straight as a swap frame wise as your going to find. Supposedley it's pretty easy.
-Avery
-Avery
