C5 rear suspension without the transaxle?
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C5 rear suspension without the transaxle?
Im wondering how difficult (if at all) it is to take the trans part off the axle and use it with a standard manual tranny?
What rear end would bolt in place? Theres one on ebay without a rear end so... just wondering
thanks
What rear end would bolt in place? Theres one on ebay without a rear end so... just wondering
thanks
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Depending on what you want to do with the car, it would be asinine to move the trans up front and keep the stock rear. Vette Doctors had and still has a few cars with T400's bolted to the stock rear. And a few backhalf cars with a glide up front and a 12 bolt out back.
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St. Jude Donor '08
Originally Posted by carsonp
Can you use C5 IRS with a standard tranny? (no transaxle)
C5's do not have a transaxle. The transmission just happens to be in the rear for better handling and aerodynamics. All of your brake, cooling and electrical line run through the tunnel.
The transmission is a seperate unit and is splined into rear-end, if took out the transmission and used a standard one, you would have to change the rear anyways.
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From: St. Michael Minnesota
Originally Posted by Face
Depending on what you want to do with the car, it would be asinine to move the trans up front and keep the stock rear. Vette Doctors had and still has a few cars with T400's bolted to the stock rear. And a few backhalf cars with a glide up front and a 12 bolt out back.
this isnt for a corvette
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Originally Posted by carsonp
this isnt for a corvette
Anyway, look up an issue from earlier this year of Popular Hot Rodding magazine. There's a high buck, wild, modified, early 70s Barracuda with a C-5 suspension set up. IIRC, they used a MoPar tranny at the back of the engine (a Hemi), and fabbed a coupler of some sort to link the driveshaft to the 'Vette rear end.
