Difference between 86 vrs. 94 suspensions need help!
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Hey guys!! Update. Please bare with me until we find out what this car really is.
I forgot about my photo album on this site! Pleas check it out there is a photo of the yellow Corvette right after I got it. In fact there are two showing the side rockers. Note there are NO bolt on stuff off of it. The rear bumper cover, tail lights and spoiler I took off prior to my unloading it off of the ramp wrecker as the driver's side rear hub was broken and folded under. This was when I was changing that hub assy. This car came sans wheels. The brake lite was smashed and I removed it also.
I forgot about my photo album on this site! Pleas check it out there is a photo of the yellow Corvette right after I got it. In fact there are two showing the side rockers. Note there are NO bolt on stuff off of it. The rear bumper cover, tail lights and spoiler I took off prior to my unloading it off of the ramp wrecker as the driver's side rear hub was broken and folded under. This was when I was changing that hub assy. This car came sans wheels. The brake lite was smashed and I removed it also.
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I need to go upstairs and look at the rear bumper cover and the spoiler but believe you may have gotten it spotted!!!
I will do so soon. It is hard to get to but I WILL do it.
Thanks ALL who have stuck with me on this.
Again I do not have the hood nor front bumper.
Someone made a comment as to the 86 wheels. They came off of the 86 true pace car that was hit in the rear and totaled. This is the drive train I used in my 86 Pace car conv. Both were conv. Mine is red the totaled one was copper-gold color. Mine was originally a stolen and stripped vehicle that someone purchased and put a carburated 350 and 350 Turbo in it when I traded/bought it from another different owner. The copper vette had 86K miles on it (original). TPI. I am pulling that out and installing a LT-1 and a ZF 6 speed if I keep the car.... soon,
The yellow Vette.... ???? Depends if it is worth saving or selling. ?????
I will do so soon. It is hard to get to but I WILL do it.
Thanks ALL who have stuck with me on this.
Again I do not have the hood nor front bumper.
Someone made a comment as to the 86 wheels. They came off of the 86 true pace car that was hit in the rear and totaled. This is the drive train I used in my 86 Pace car conv. Both were conv. Mine is red the totaled one was copper-gold color. Mine was originally a stolen and stripped vehicle that someone purchased and put a carburated 350 and 350 Turbo in it when I traded/bought it from another different owner. The copper vette had 86K miles on it (original). TPI. I am pulling that out and installing a LT-1 and a ZF 6 speed if I keep the car.... soon,
The yellow Vette.... ???? Depends if it is worth saving or selling. ?????
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OK!!!!
FYI
The front cradle will fit but there are differences! It seems that the spindles (I call them cross shafts on the control arms are different! The fella with the 94 is going to give me the front cradle with the car. The control arms will interchange onto the 94 but I will need to pick up the 94 model cross shafts (spindles they tell me that Chevrolet calls them). The rears are the same to bolt in!!! The hand brakes... are different (Thanks to you guys here!!) but they can be cable-modified to fit changing the style of hand brakes to internal. So, I will be able to gutt the 86 it looks like! Using the rear diff set up in the 94. Also, I will use the 86 front A arms and wheel upright/hub assy's. I must use the 86 sway bar and the rack. This will put the 5 spoke 15" mags I have for it on the 94 as reversed wheels getting rid of the awful flat looking stock wheels.
So, if this 86 is just a poor KIT car... then it is doomed, it seems, to be junked and very shortly. Unless anyone has any further ideas?????
FYI
The front cradle will fit but there are differences! It seems that the spindles (I call them cross shafts on the control arms are different! The fella with the 94 is going to give me the front cradle with the car. The control arms will interchange onto the 94 but I will need to pick up the 94 model cross shafts (spindles they tell me that Chevrolet calls them). The rears are the same to bolt in!!! The hand brakes... are different (Thanks to you guys here!!) but they can be cable-modified to fit changing the style of hand brakes to internal. So, I will be able to gutt the 86 it looks like! Using the rear diff set up in the 94. Also, I will use the 86 front A arms and wheel upright/hub assy's. I must use the 86 sway bar and the rack. This will put the 5 spoke 15" mags I have for it on the 94 as reversed wheels getting rid of the awful flat looking stock wheels.
So, if this 86 is just a poor KIT car... then it is doomed, it seems, to be junked and very shortly. Unless anyone has any further ideas?????
Last edited by Joe Geisler; Aug 20, 2015 at 12:29 PM.
