Setting Driveline Angle Subframe as Reference?

[OBeer-WAN-Kenobi]

Originally Posted by chr2002ca

Kinda hard to start playing with angles before you know what your rear's pinion angle will be also. I'd wait on measuring and trying to determine angles until everything is installed and your car is sitting at its final ride height and weight. Then measure your angles on your rear and trans and determine what needs to change. I run leafs and used some angle shims under the leaf perches to get the rear angle just how I wanted and then made a spacer out of a chunk of aluminum to put under my trans mount to get that angle set also.

Using stock ride height and body bushing height with a stock suspension front and rear, shouldn't there be a "stock" angle to the subframe?

Yeah, I realize I'll have to tweak it a bit when everything is installed but say I make the transmission mount on the crossmember 1" lower than where it would sit at the "stock" angle. Then after I get it together I can put in the correct height spacer....maybe it will be 1.125, maybe .9375....to fine adjust the car. I need to fabricate the entire transmission crossmember and it would be a whole lot easier out of the car.

Basically, I'd like to know what the angle "should" be in reference to the subframe and then I'll fabricate the crossmember so the angle is too great without a spacer.

Does that make sense?

Thanks!