i got my rearend out and my tranny, and i was thinking of which i should replace and what i can just do later after i get everything back together....i was looking at the torque arm, do you guys think its worth the money that they are? or should i put my money else where for now??

 

Depends on what else you've already done, and what the car needs next....

If you have 60' problems, and you've already replaced the LCAs with something you at least can't bend with your hands, and got LCA reloc brackets to correct the defective design of the rear suspension, then the TA is next on your list. Until you do those other things, you won't notice all that much difference, except that your car will feel like you took a giant rubber band out of it from somewhere related to the drive line, and replaced it with a solid rod. But by itself, it won't fix the wheel hop that these cars all have.

If you have 2.73 gears and no posi, then you should do those things first.

 

well actually this car was all stock last summer except for the 350 corvette motor....it has kind of been a winter project...started with the rearend, got eaton posi 3.73 gears, everything rebuilt, then went to the tranny, 1500 bucks worth of performance rebuild, then the motor is souped up with various things and should produce about 400 horsepower...i got lakewood drag shocks and thats it for rear suspension mods, but after i get it running i'm gonna swap out the trailing arms for good ones and relocation brackets...then hopefully a panhard rod, i'm just afraid if i should just get the torque arm now just because i think it would be the hardest thing to replace when the car is all back together...iw as thinking since the tranny is out and we just put the rearend in, that it might be easier to just put a new TA in there right now..what do you think? but they aren't cheap, i can get an adjustable used one right now for 175...should i ****** it up? but i also have about 700 bucks more of parts to buy for the motor.....i'm kind of in a delema...