I still like his wing, even if half of the posters don't. Keep up the good work, and good luck on dropping it to the ground

 

after watching at all them pics, i feel like driving an suv....i have to do something about this...

 

I'm surprised no one posted lowcamaros ride

 

That orange camaro has to rate in the top 10 on my list. The stance is amazing.

 

its too bad you'll never get the GFX to touch the ground... the floorpan is lower then they are..

 

ummm if hes going 230 mph and his car is pointed so he is going on the grass.....ill leave the rest to your imagination, would have been an interesting ride to say the least.

 

@RegaPlanet: Holy Smokes! That thing is on the GROUND! The air-dam at least...

@JimmyG-91Z: Excellent post; that car is killer!

@19doug90: "Interesting" to say the least! That'd be a helluva wild ride!

 

id agree....i did it at 60 mph (minues probably 10-20 for what i shaved off while fishtailing 3-4 times) and that was a scary trip, at 230 uhhh i think ill have to sit that one out.

 

My driveway is actually humped so that height is exaggerated but it actuality its no more than 2" off level ground.

 

Actually you could but it would require you to bodydrop the car and tub the wheelwells. And since our cars are unibody, a bodydrop would be very very hard to do. Actualy I dont even know if its possible with the way our cars are designed. If you want more info about a bodydrop, check some mini truck websites or something. Basically what you do is seperate the frame and the body, then weld them back together, but with the frame raised between 1 and 3 inches. This will cause the body to sit lower over the frame and the overall effect is the car/truck looks even more lowered. This would cause the GFX to be lower than the frame of the car so at full drop down the GFX would hit the ground before the floorpan. But when you do this you can run into ALOT of problems with clearance (both inside, and with the wheels and suspension). If done wrong it would totally ruin the car and I would not consider it road worthy. If done right, the car will never be safe for race use (all the geometry is screwed and the chassis is weak). This is pretty much a mod done to show only cars and trucks that are not daily driven. Here is a pic of a bodydropped truck. Notice how the bed is raised and the wheel wells are tubbed. This allows the bodypanels to touch the ground and gives the wheels maximum clearance to tuck. If there was a picture of the inside of the truck you would find that the floorpan is actually raised a few inches meaning you sit higher (if you were tall you might not fit!). This would also require you completely remove the front wheelwells. The engine bay ends up looking like this. But seeing our front suspension design, you would probably need to fabricate like a madman to get the car drivable. Very very cool mod, and will allow you to SLAM the car, but not for everybody, only the extreme type. I honestly think you'd be better off with a tube frame chassis designed for that type of drop and a 3rd gen Camaro body draped over the frame.

 

well if i wanted to lay the GFX i could just cut the rear portion of the floorpan where the seat humps are... and weld some flat sheetmetal and reenforcing bars in..........

but thats alot of work and like you said, kinda pointless..... now if you kept the car stiff enough, and then cut and flattened it, it might still be street worthy.....



but you'll never lay frame with these cars....................there isnt one.

 

Here ya go I was surprised no one posted this picture of ru-quicks blk z !

 

or.........

 

Are those different cars, or did he switch the gfx btw pics?

Hey 85 I responded to your PM but if it was about the orange car I posted, disregard it cause its not mine (unfortunately)

 

Here is the lowest point on my car- about 2 1/4" from ground to exhaust. Bottom of front spoiler is about 4 3/4".

 

rspeed hasnt it been a while since youve posted? id love to see recent pics of your car.....i love the look of it...

 

Yea,it's beena long while. Pretty much since I wrecked my car. I jost posted some pics in the Body and Interior board.

 

I measured today and it's 6 1/4" off the ground now. Apparently bad struts have that big off a difference in ride height. Also i now have 215/60/15 on the front instead of 205/60/15 like what used to be on it.

 

I don't post much anymore and I normally stay away from topics with controversy but I gotta say Iroc2nv I love the looks of your tail lights with the 3 peice bumper removed. That looks NICE. I am still up in the air about the wing but, hey Nice ride!

 

I had to jump on this one. I saw you guys measuring from your airdam and what not. I can put the front BUMPBER. Yes, the actual nose of the car flat on the ground. I also welding some steel across the front cross member for some added sparks to throw at night (Ill hafta dig up some pics). The back end is the hardest to get to lay flat. My tires hit the fender wells and wont allow it to go any lower. To to that you need to either have a 14x6 rim and possibly shave the inner fender wells and shorten the axel...oh, and cnoth the subframe...to much work for all that...but here ya go

 

ok im sorry but this just looks amazingly stupid.

 

Thanks for apologizing for your hate. The topic was lowest car right? I like it and it wins at car shows...so it must be ok

 

hey, atleast we're arguing politely. right?

your car, do what you want...

 

hey, atleast we're arguing politely. right?

your car, do what you want... [/QUOTE]

Thanks. My family has had almost every year of firebird since 86 and I decided to do something a little different w/ the 87. I havent completely lost my mind. (oh, and I do appreciate the politeness )

 

as much as i dislike that type of car, the engineering nerd in me has to ask..... how did you lift the rear that high? is it just a really tall air bag? hyd? what did you have to cut if any?

 

With alot of modifications. It is a 12 hydrualic cylinder wrapped in a coil w/ about 3 turns in a coilover setup. The cylinder is mounted w/ a powerball welded to the axel and I welded washer in the trunk where I drilled the cylinder up through. I get about 14"s of lift. like this See...we can be freinds..its all good

 

damn, ohh ya, i question the thread starter, he has yet to post a pic of his....cmon kandy whats hiding up your sleeve....

 

 

LOOK WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DONT CHECK THIS BOARD FOR A FEW WEEKS! LOL
Well, there are some very sweet and slammed thirdgens in this thread. Time to add mine...im probably right down with some of the lowest of the lows....

EDIT:
Cant get ANY of my pics to post, so check out my website. All the pics are too big to upload. Pay attenyion to the pics of the car next to the can of Wildcat, and the car back into my shop. Front tires site 1/8th of an inch away from the upper wheelwells. Front lip can lay as low as 1/4" away from the tarmac.
http://www.fbody.com/members/gclarke

IF ANYONE CAN UPLOAD MY PICS OFF MY SITE FOR ME...PLEASE DO!

 

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aha, k here we go.

 

AAAAAAAAH
well that sux, k someone else try

 

here:

http://josh.swoca.net/board/mrdude/LowCamaro/













edit: btw, dont link the world to these...... bandwidth isnt free.

 

Extremely nice. Im loving the interior. :hail: Good job. You should try titanium drag blocks

 

i can tell ya from experiance with motocycles.... Dragging Ti makes ALOT of sparks.... a heck of alot more then steel.....



a couple of my bike friends have sparkies... they're the same plastic pucks that you normally put on your leathers for when you drag a knee, except sparkies have bits of Ti embedded in them...

they make a shower of sparks you can see in the daytime.....

 

LowCamaro - I DIG that ride!!!!! What's a ballpark figure on your air setup? (PM or Post) - I followed and enjoyed your thread on "How Low Can You Go?!"

 

Thanks man! I do believe i have one of the lowest around.

 

I spent i think now about $1500 on the setup. Installed myself, fabricated my own bracketry, and rigged up my own air pump.

PS, i already have installed spark bars on the back of the car, makes some OK sparks, not as near as much as titanium would! Im just using 1/4" steel bar for them.

 

You got any pics of the sparks? As well as the setup?

 

Low camaro your car is beyond mint. i love it. how low exactly can u go tho

 

Geez thanks guys!
SOme of those pics, there was some air left in the bags so the car wasnt sitiing at its lowest. I think one of the only pics of hte car sitting at its lowest is on my site, the pics of the car sitting next to a can of beer. The is at its lowest...so if you measure out half a can of beer in height...thats how low as i can go!

I dont have any pics of the sparks yet...but ill see if my girlfriend can take some pics with my digi railing it past her place tonight.

 

Just an fyi, that car was sold by jason to AllStock. He doesnt post much though.

Brian

 

Thats a high class can of beer there! Where did you get/how did you make the emblems on your car, I want some like that accept opposite (chrome outside, body color lettering)

 

I LOVE THAT BEER!

I made the emblems myself, just took a piece of cutable mirror, (really thin and flexible mirror) bought at canadian tire. Cut it to fit the divets in the body kit. Then got a sticker shop to make a reverse cutout that says iroc. Struck it to the mirror, then glued them in.

 

hmm seems easy enough. Why didnt I think of that? how much did it cost for the material and to have them make you the sticker cutouts?

 

$20 canadian fo rth emirror material
$10 for 2 stickers

 

Sounds good too me. Top of the list once I get my first paycheck from my super sweet job at Brusters! Can't wait til those fat checks start rollin in...jk..

 

This was as low as my car would get. Fenders are resting on the wheels

 

welp.. you know what the solution is....... get bigger fenders.

 

me....