V8 HHR Build
11-11-2016, 09:21 PM
#912
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New View You Haven't Seen
I had the car on a roller bed today and I took this shot showing the rear undercarriage. If you expand the photo you can make out the cut outs and pretty much the entire drive train.
11-22-2016, 10:15 PM
#915
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New 9" Rear End
It's a long story, but I'm replacing the rear axle assembly on the V8 Panel. The Camaro axle is the Achilles Heel of the drive train. F body Camaros are notorious for differential failures, especially with over 500 hp. driving it. I also currently have 3.08 gears which are slightly tall for my needs. Since Currie Enterprises is just 8 miles from my work I've spent a bunch of time with them designing a new system.
I'm going with a custom width housing and custom 31spline axles of course drilled to 5x110 mm. The ford style 9" 3rd member will have 3.50 gears which will put me at 2100 rpm @ 65mph. Posi-traction and Wilwood calipers with drilled and slotted rotors finish it off.
With the line lock for massive burn outs, I kept having a reoccurring nightmare of having a catastrophic failure in the middle of frying the tires, thus the 9".
I'm going with a custom width housing and custom 31spline axles of course drilled to 5x110 mm. The ford style 9" 3rd member will have 3.50 gears which will put me at 2100 rpm @ 65mph. Posi-traction and Wilwood calipers with drilled and slotted rotors finish it off.
With the line lock for massive burn outs, I kept having a reoccurring nightmare of having a catastrophic failure in the middle of frying the tires, thus the 9".
Last edited by lasater; 11-22-2016 at 10:45 PM.
11-22-2016, 11:02 PM
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The 3.08 was what the axle came with so it wasn't worth the money to change it. Since I can pick any ratio I want with the new rear end I'm gonna get what I want.
12-04-2016, 01:05 PM
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9" rear end
Included in replacing the rear axle on the V8 Panel I must build all new brackets. Here are the cut pieces of the shock mounts and panhard bar mount It will take 6-8 more hours to complete them ready for welding onto the 3" axle tubes.