Hi Everyone. I'm retired and have owned 4 corvettes thru my years. I decided to look for my build sheet after 4 years of owning my black 77 and I noticed the original owner that I purchased it from installed this TRW spring. Is it suppose to be installed this way?? Just doesn't look right, but I have been driving it for 4 years now without a problem. thanks p.s I'm new to this forum stuff and have a hard time figuring out my way around this technical crap. Lets go back 20 years. Trying to attach a pic??
theres a great many times when you find a mechanical issue with a car, and you can either mentally step back and take a deep breath and see an obvious solution, from a local machine shop or auto repair or if its a common issue look in a hot rod or corvette racing parts catalog for a repair or adapter part, all you need here, is 10 minutes of careful measuring time
a pad of lined paper , take the measurments to any decent machine shop and they can take a piece of 1/2" x 3" aluminum bar stock and mill an adapter plate for under $50
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there have been guys that have the financial resources or connections and or skills to have built an independent rear differential , based on the far stronger DANA 60 vs the factory supplied dana 36 or dana 44 , which are comparable to the G.M. 10 bolt rears, hardly impressive or known for strength or durability, to fit the corvette frame, obviously this takes a good deal of time,effort and money but it also can result in an exceptionally strong rear differential
yes its very unfortunate that there's no commonly, available, and reasonably priced, independent rear differential,available to the performance car enthusiasts,with large disc brakes in the compatible width, and easily retro fitted suspension mounts that I'm aware of, in most local salvage yards , similar to the corvette rear suspension, that has the strength of the dana 60 rear differential.
yes there are custom fabricated solutions, if you have a very healthy bank balance , but nothing based on a dana 60-70- or ford 9" or heavier duty independent G.M. differential
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