carsonp

What needs to be done to the rear suspension/axles/diff housing on C5?

It looks like on restomods using a standard front mount tranny use a different rear end/housing? Anything specific on a rear end needed? anything different with the axles?

what do you recommend?

Thanks

CamminC5

There isn't enough room to mount a trans directly to the motor in a C5. You would have to cut the car to pieces.
Why do you want to do this?

carsonp

It's not for a c5. I want to use c5 suspension in another car

huesmann

Suspension and drivetrain?

CamminC5

Well I feel like an ***. Sorry.

carsonp

yes ls1/t56

joeflyer

Many of those cars use a C4 rear suspension. No transaxle on it.

carsonp

Its my understanding that the ride and handling are much improved in the C6.

C5 Pete

That would stand to reason, better technology.

Take a C5/C6 diff to a machine shop that has CNC capabilities.

Ask them to make an adapter that will bolt to the forward part of the diff and a shaft to go through it with a yoke on the end.

Depending on the Diff you use, it'll be either 27, or 30 spline. Take a trans output shaft, cut it to length, weld a yoke onto it.

You'll have to also make some sort of bracing that can be integrated into the custom plate to use for mounting the diff to whatever crossmember you are using.


Best of success with your project.

jackthelad

The alternate route would be to use a different diff (C4 for example) and custom drive axles.

I would check out costs of both options. Also, there has to be info out there about projects that have done this - I've seen pics of C3's with C5 suspensions for example, and I recall reading someone out there makes a restomod chassis frame designed for C5 suspension components - mounting points, etc., to maintain the correct geometry. They probably have the diff problem solved too.

EDIT: check out an outfit called Chassis Concepts - they make a diff adaptor for the C5 diff.

leadfoot4

One of the better known "hot rod shops", maybe Heidt's Rod Shop, already makes an IRS for "restomod" applications, with a transmission-less differential. It would save a LOT of home-grown fabrication....



UPDATE...........

I spent some time in the "throne room" a little while ago, and was thumbing through a copy of 'Chevy High Performance' magazine, and found the ad I was thinking of. It's Art Morrison Enterprises, that makes the IRS set-up.