I know you've all seen my car before, but I didnt have any pictures of the car that were really decent since the IRS swap so I took some today. Some of them turned out kinda cool and I thought some of you might enjoy them. It was a little late in the evening so there are some shadows, sorry I'm not a pro.

 

wow very nice stance. beautyful looking car man !

 

nice car man , love the irs swap.

 

do you have a third brake light in the spoiler and on the glass?
i love your cars stance it looks amazing.

 

it's an 86 and should have the brake light on rear glass. I broke the stock spoiler off the hatch last year when I ran the car up on the lift and forgot to close the hatch and it hit the ceiling. The spoiler is off my dad's '88. Hopefully I'll be able to re-paint the car fairly soon and I'll put a later hatch on with no brake light.

 

looks great bro..love the colour
Mikey

 

Bitchen.

 

NICE.....................are those rims off a vette

 

awesome looking car, those rims look perfect on there. im jealous of how freakin wide those back tires are!

 

1mean, do ya have a good shot of your IRS you could post?

 

Here is the build thread, I need to keep working on finishing it but it's time consuming.

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/susp...uspension.html

Here is an instant gratification pic of the IRS.



I lowered the rear 1/4" yesterday to level the car out a bit. I cut 3/4 coil off the front springs and thats turned out to be pretty aggressive. Hopefully I'll be making weight jacks for the front this winter.

 

What size tire and BS on the rear ?

 

VERY VERY VERY NICE 1 Mean!!!! super clean workmanship.

 

SICK CAR

 

dude! Your car looks amazing man. Love the wheels. that is so sweet how you got that IRS in there. Great job!

 

I want to put IRS in my car so bad but I'm not comfortable in doing it myself like you did. I can handle the drivetrain swap but IRS is a whole other ball game I think.

 

great job man, car looks hot as always!

 

Hott Damn i wish my car was that clean, looks like i got a new goal, what suspension parts did you use on it? How does it handle?

 

It wasn't that horrible. It just takes guts to cut your car, and some faith in your ability. I'm not an expert by any means, but I have enough fab skills to get myself out of trouble. I just set my mind that I was going to do it, I researched what others had done, then I started cutting. Once you get the car cut you have no choice but to finish the job, so thats what I did.

It's all basically stock '96 Corvette parts with the exception of the trailing arms. They are from Banski motorsports. Tom is a great guy and I'll be buying the lower camber links from him to replace the stockers eventually.

It rides and drives better than any other 3rd or 4th gen I've been in. You don't relize how unsettled the solid axle gets when you go over bumps until it's gone. I've been so busy on weekends and such with moving into a new house in a new area that I have not autocrossed it or hit an open track day yet. On the street the car grips noticably better, but I think it's because I lowered it 2" lol. The IRS offered the strong ring and pinion I wanted, without adding the weight or expense of a 9" or 12 bolt, which is why I put it in. On a smooth course the car will NOT handle better than a live axle car. The IRS is only better over rough pavement (which on the street and most courses is most of the time). I can put more negative camber in the rear tires than a live axle car can and it would help the car corner, but with too much negative camber in the rear you can't get any forward traction coming off a corner, so it kind of balances out.