2nd Gen Camaro pro-street style rearend setup to better road setup
Folks, apologize for my ignorance up front! Pretty new to all this. I've googled and haven't had any luck.
Basically I want to change the rear end setup in my 73 Camaro to a more road friendly/better handling rearend. The car was setup for drag racing and kind of pro-street. Don't know the exact name of the design, but it's called a Floating axle with ladder bars, ford 9 inch. Love the 9" and the 4:11s but want to go drive it in circles without the rear clunking around...
So what would be an easy conversion to make it go around the corners better? I can send some pictures if it would help. Thanks in advance for everyone's time and help! This site is awesome, dave
Go back to leafs if you can. There are a hose of companies that have great parts for a gen II. There are a couple of sponsers on this board that can help you along, for instance, Ron Sutton, Speed Tech, BMI, Detroit Speed, Ride Tech...for starters. I had leafs on my Gen II and was faster on leafs that I'm am now (thats an example of the car now being better than the driver)
Thanks everyone! The bmr setup looks nice! Here are some pics. Not the best as I haven't had it on a lift yet. Yes the framerails are intact and there are leafs on it, they are the corvette mono composite ones.
I saw a bolt on 4 link from ride tech that's reasonably priced, would I be able to cut out the ladder bars and install that? I don't need it to be the best road racing car just fun to drive and as you all mentioned I am sure that I wouldn't be able to drive to the cars potential anyways. Thanks again!