69 camaro rear end travel help!

[Pasquale]

how much travel do you guys run on a pro touring 69 camaro for the rear suspension? I'm trying to set up my rear end right now

[Pasquale]

This is where I am at. I'm mocking up the rear end so I can start to build the triangulated 4 link. I just need to know a common measurement of the amount of travel a car would see on a the road.

[Vegas69]

Most are in the 5-5.5" range.

[David Pozzi]

In a perfect world, 6". Then you have an inch you can raise or lower the rear for ride height setting & still get by, & would still have 2" of bump or rebound. If you have bumpstops on the shocks, it uses up some bump travel. I like to see 2.5" travel clearence to the bump stop. Many coil over shocks are 5.5" stroke.

[Pasquale]

Originally Posted by David Pozzi

In a perfect world, 6". Then you have an inch you can raise or lower the rear for ride height setting & still get by, & would still have 2" of bump or rebound. If you have bumpstops on the shocks, it uses up some bump travel. I like to see 2.5" travel clearence to the bump stop.

Ok then I seem to be pretty close in range. At ride height, the top of my housing is 3 inches from the frame rails. In these pictures, how does it look?


This would be at ride height...

[camcojb]

those frame rails seem to be your biggest issue, not sure who's they are. They look they remove a lot of your clearance by the way they are bent. I don't think 3" is anywhere near what is normal. David said 6" ideally and I believe that was at ride height.