4wd EG Conversion

Man! I had to fire JB's Automotive in Aberdeen Maryland because dude broke a window on my car and was really slow at modifying the car. All John did was cut out the old cage and order the new one for me so I guess I'm gonna have to do this myself. Unless anyone knows a good shop in the area. Southern Maryland?

 

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So the last couple of week I spent my time removing the rhino liner from the floor of the new project car and I discovered rust where the cage was welded. Well time to fix this crap. Dont trust a car that has been rhino lined on the interior. You end up with crap like this. Bought a welder with plasma cutter and tig capabilities so this weekend ill be getting it done. Gonna cut the 6" plates out and replace them with 7" lower reinforcement plates then secure the cage to newly cut 6" mild steel plates after all the damage is repaired.

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Got a chance to assemble my drive line aswell. Twin segmented drive shaft with slip yoke and no viscous coupler. Just like dad used to make

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Ouch, removing bed liner? Doesn't sound fun.

 

Cleaned up pretty well though. Torch and a screw driver. Pullin everything up wasnt too bad

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Arp Drag studs installed







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Any updates?

 

Sorry fellas. In opened a business doing advanced car audio installations in Maryland and I have not been in my garage lately due to all the customers. I have been redesigning the Corvette IRS to fit the Civic rear frame rails and tying them together with the cradle kit. This is what I have so far.

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its w e r d

 

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Im waiting on square stock steel for the cradle and subframe integration. Any ideas would be helpful on the rear cradle install

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Looking at the trailing arm design on this setup, I was going to opt out and utilize the factory civic trailing arm design. however, those companies and independent fabricators that had done that before had limited themselves to the factory civic geometry and spring rates associated with that design. Also what size of wheel they could run and offsets. I think for this design I am going ot go with the corvette C3 trailing arm design. It will give me the opportunity to use the spherical bearing mount under the civic where the original pivot point of the rear trailing arms would be and make a mount for the C3 Van Steel Offset trailing arm. The civic factory trailing arm mount is about 20" long from the center bearing to center of the spherical mount. This is a good basis for understanding.

 

The length of the civic is 160.2" so that would put the Center of Gravity @ 80.1". Trying to figure out where I need the instant center to be of the Anti-squat ratio.

 

This is my example.

 

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Civic:


Length: 160.2” / Center of Gravity 80.1”

Width: 66.9” / 33.45”

Height: 53.0” / Instant Center 26.5” 100% anti-Squat rate

Ground Clearance: 5.9”

Frame Rails: 32.25” Inner Rail to Inner Rail

Track Width: 57.70” Hub to Hub



Corvette:



Frame Rails: 40”

Batwings: 37.50”


Track Width Modification:

63.50” – 57.70”= 5.80”/2 = 2.90” remove from Each Side from the center


Frame Rail to Batwing Modification:

37.50” – 32.25” = 5.25”/2 = 2.625” Remove from each side from the center


Corvette Dana 36 IRS Cradle Kit:

40” – 32.25’ = 7.75” - .50= 7.25”/2 = 3.625” From Each Side from center

3” x 2” x 1/8” Tubing

32.25” x 3” x 2” (1/8”) Thick

L W H Thick




Processes:


1. Shorten corvette IRS cradle kit to 31.75. Cut at angle and install ¼” and caps to cradle kit.

2. Shorten IRS batwings to 31.75” and install batwing diff cradle to batwing diff carriers.

3. Shorten axles (DSS-custom rear axle).

4. Create tubular trailing arms with corvette hub/bearing assy., rotors and calipers.

5. Remove factory spare civic tire well, remove rear fender wells, and install mini tub kit rear and fuel cell.

6. Modify and Install Trans-axles with carrier bearing.

7. Fix front spindle assy., caliber bracket mount (Shorten 1”).

8. Build custom header and exhaust system.

9. Complete S&W 10pt 8.50 cert roll cage.

10. Grade 8 (bolt match/Fastenal suspension and engine).

11. Order and Install custom engine wire harness, accessories harness and mock up CRS and car computer systems

12. Purchase and Install web stage 3 custom cam shafts.

13. Install magnum powers MPX 90 blower system, custom header, and custom charge piping and v-band couplers.

14. Install fuel system and electronic suspension equipment.

15. Four corner vehicle wait testing with and without driver.

16. Paint and body work.

17. Engine and suspension tuning.

18. Final assembly CRS and car computer system, install interior.