Was wondering if someone can help figure this issue . My buddy picked up a 46 Chevy coupe the car has a Camarro subframe welded in. It also has a Nova rear end . The trackwith looks too wide on the front. Has anybody know what the orig**** trackwith is ? Or has anybody cliped this kind of car with a diffrent kind of frame ? S-10 or G body car ? Or does anybody have an orginal frame for sale ? Any help would be great ! Thanks.
Ihave a 48 chevy with a mII and it is to narrow in my opinion as I had to use wheels with hardly any back space so the tires are in alignment with the rears. I have a 70 ford half ton truck rear which was perfect width with the original front end. I also have a nova rear which is only a half inch narrow over the ford rear. I will post the widths when I go out to the garage today. I don't think the camaro will be to wide if you are running narrow tires like I am. I didn't want the big fat tires, I drive my car alot so I like the 4 to 5 inch tread width. Will post later.
Cool man thank you . My buddys car has those 14 " late 70's camaro rallys on it for rollers right now he's going with steel rims with wide whites when the car is finished. Thanks again for your help !!!
front steer or rear steer sub?...front steers are wider. Have used many rear steer subs under these cars with no problems....got any pics?
Fatman has narrowed tubular "A" arms for Nova front ends that help. I put them under a 49 Plymouth that was subframed and they worked well
What do you need to know...? Mine's all original...Inside of one tire to the other is 51 & 1/4 inch's...That's with the original tires...Get back to me if you need other measurements... Oh,man...Original frame....? The VCCA is tearing down all their old "For Sale" posts...Like the last 5 years 'o them...Check their chat site...It's better than eBay, prices are pretty much set in stone...Just a lot of original ****...
Thanks kevin47 I'll try and get some pics of the car on here I'll have my buddy measure the with too . Thanks for all the help you guys !!!
Front steer is too wide as you found out. You can try wheels with different offset, S-10 4x4 wheels have more inside offset, almost like a fwd wheel. For an in-between offset, a Jaguar wheel might be a good choice. Both are 5 on 4.75 pattern, same as the Camaro sub. Wheels are much cheaper than narrowed A-arms. Both of these wheels are ugly, so plan on some full hubcaps to hide the ugly.
My 47 is on a 76 Monte Carlo ch***is. I run 205's on 14 inch rims up front and 225 on 15's in the rear I amd thinking about changing it to run 15's up front using a different tire side wall size.
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