C3 vs C4 track width - advantages?
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Burning Brakes
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C3 vs C4 track width - advantages?
I'm retrofitting the suspension (front and rear) from a 1986 C4 into my 1979 C3. Some people keep the C3 track width to run "stock-ish" backspaced wheels, while others go with the C4 track width and run late-model backspaced wheels (ex: C5 Z06 wheels).
It would seem to me that the C4's wider track width would be better from a performance perspective, but is this necessarily true?
It would seem to me that the C4's wider track width would be better from a performance perspective, but is this necessarily true?
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Since I have installed a C4 Rear Suspension in my C3 I have to ask just how much work are You willing to do to to alter the Track Width ? Your 86 is about an inch narrower than the late 1988+ C4s. To narrow it means cutting the Batwing, 1/2 Shafts, Sway Bar and Spring. Its been done before but its a big job just to keep period correct wheels on what must be a modified C3 anyway.
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Since I have installed a C4 Rear Suspension in my C3 I have to ask just how much work are You willing to do to to alter the Track Width ? Your 86 is about an inch narrower than the late 1988+ C4s. To narrow it means cutting the Batwing, 1/2 Shafts, Sway Bar and Spring. Its been done before but its a big job just to keep period correct wheels on what must be a modified C3 anyway.
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I would suggest making a temporary Steel ridged Spring when You mock up the suspension. If You don't every time you measure something will of changed. I certainly hope that the Body is off the Frame.
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