Ok they are caled Coil-Overs by many people.

I wonder why I cant find any info on this kind of suspension for our cars (92rs).

Anyone know of a kit to convert from separate coils to Coil-Overs?

Are they to expensive?

I have done nothing to my engine by lack of money, but after thinking about it I will start with the chasis, then suspenssion, Wheels and tires, then brakes, Interior, paint, and last engine.

I want that this car feel very tight and put at least 1g cornering on radials, is this possible?

Also there is any shop that fabricate body panels in aluminium or they must be hand made?

Lastly anyone know of a gud place to buy interior pieces There are a lot of plastic pieces missed or broked in my car, and the strut on both the hatch and hood are pretty worn.

I need to order those interior pices online I dont live in the USA.

Any help is grattly apreciated.

 

As you have seen Im kind of new here.

But I have used other Boards before and I think I made some kind of error with my subject.

1) There is a lot of info on this site and I havent searched wheel?

2) There is no interest in this subject? No one had made this convertion? It is prohibitively expensive?

I have seen some coil overs on the site but there is no info anywhere on the dificulty of instalation, best place to buy, problems encountered with an specific product, prices, improvements made to the car.

Like I said Im interested in a really good handling car, first then I will search for great aceleration an top speed.

Im not interested in some 1/4 miles, I whant to make my car light and stiff, to steer very good, to brake really good. (Im considering Baer Brakes).

This will be a very long project for me couse if canadians say that they have to pay a lot for f-body's stuff you cant imagine how expensive stuff are here (or to import stuff).

My car is not a monster like some of you can buy, with 70k miles I'm just hopping that nothing breaks yet couse the car cost me 9k dollars and that was a really *** price for it the same cost of a 6 cilinder one, for a z28 i would have needed 16k $$$, and that car was in really *** shape but there whas nothing special about it.

So I would appreciate any help anyone can offer me to start moding my car.

Where I should start? with SFC? who make the best ones? What another chasis mods are the best considering I whant to lower the weight and add as much stiffness as possible while maintaning *** crash protection?

With time I should be able to have the car i always dreamed about.

Just one note in my country we dont have restrictions of any kind in mods we can do to our cars I could put anythig in it and it wont matter I just have to keep the noise a little lower than what a harley makes, so rollbars no problem, aluminium body panels no problem.

 

Sounds like quite a project!

Well, if you're looking for a 1g skidpad then getting the suspension out of a Firebird Formula will get you pretty close. If possible go to a junkyard or search online auction sites.. eBay or Yahoo for swaybars from an '87-'92 Formula and if possible a set of springs. I don't know if the springs are any different though. These are the components of the WS6 suspension and with a good set of tires 16 or 17 inch wheels it ought to put you around .94g on the skid pad. You could also add in some sub-frame connectors and get tighter bushings for the sway bars and you should be pretty close to 1G. I don't know how hard it will be for you to find this stuff, but it's probably less expensive than coil-overs.

Good luck!

 

Go to www.paracing.net They have front coilover kits.

 

Thanks for the feedback ChillPhatCat and Stephen 87 IROC
When I was looking inside paracing site I saw the coil over conversion kit, wich sttrut should I use? it would work with all sttruts avaiable to my car?

Will my sttrut mount support all the weight of my front with the coil-overs? It includes special mounts (reinforced and with ball bearing) or should I look somewhere else for those?

Also the K member and A arms look interesting and with the chromemoly verssions wich should reduce the weight a lot and be equal if not more stronger than the stamped verssion I have now.

How much weight I would delete going from stock to K-Menber, A arms, Manual steering and Coil overs in the front?

The K-Member Kit Include everything but the coil-over kit? With that price I think it dont include the manual steering which cost alone 600$

This stuff will bolt on to my chassis or is a weld on item?


Just one little question my camaro should weight about 3600lbs stock right? and the distribution of weight is 57% front 43% back? so to obtain 50% or near that I would need to make the front almost 500lbs lighter? thats a lot or my numbers are wrong.

Thanks again

 

well atcually the Camaro weights about 3,450lbs...3,600lbs is more about how much it would way with teh driver inside.

 

ChillPhatCat:

I like your Idea but there is alittle problem unless I could find someone that can buy stuff for me in a USA junkjard Im lost, In my country this car is an imported and you will not find easily a good example of our cars.

So Unless I traveled to USA and buy all the suspenssion stuff I need and bring them with me junkjards are out of the equation.

If I just have someplace where I could stripe my car of the body panels, electronics, just leave the bare Unibody and then do all the chasis and suspenssion stuff. Paint everything etc.

Im thinking on the K member couse in future mods it would let me install big headers change plugs more easily and do basic maintenance, the weight saving plus is not bad either.

About the weight : Im 5.9 220lbs yep I could loose some there when I was 17 I was a real feather weight.

 

I kinda figured they'd be hard to come by. I don't know if any companies make sway bars for our cars... you might want to investigate, because they make a good difference. http://www.eBay.com is a great place to find this stuff too, but you'll have to find a seller that will ship to you, most will.