WayneLBurnham
Well-known member
- Joined
- Dec 30, 2002
- Messages
- 304
- Location
- Dallas County, Texas
- Corvette
- '75 Modified Red Ragtop: "LEFTLN"
Oh, I feel better now....
That Ford IRS is a standard "porsche-style" inboard brake model...
http://www.dutchmanms.com/1_indep9rears.html
That was the only one I saw on the 'site.
These are the bolt on frame section things common in streetrodders, but these are apparently a nightmare to install in a vette as they are "thicker" front to rear than the vette, don't use transverse leafs and, most importantly, don't use the vette-type trailing arms at all, which isn't clearly shown in the diagram. These use a three longitudinal arrangement rather than the vette lateral and minor longitudinal. This of course entirely changes the mode of wheel aspect retention and alignment and again, is completely different and experimental in achieving balancing.
This design was precisely what I asked about from the custom rod place in west Texas, only made by Heidt's. As I said before, they literally begged me not to do it, telling me there would be little left that was "vette" after finishing.
The inboard brakes are a monster to get cool air to on a vette. Not only that, but installation requires a re-arching of the frame rails, changing the rear fender wells and more or less complete elimination of the interior cargo wells.
...not a "drop in" replacement at all! Sooner or later someone could and might make an altered 9" center section only for the vette system....but this isn't it. I noticed they offer some nifty halfshafts that might be available in vette format....hmmm....but then again lots of vendors offer those directly in vette format.
The whole set-up WAS $4K, without gears, but all polished and powder coated, which is really a hell of a lot cheaper than the TD center section only near $3K, with no suspension parts included.
______________________
On the Eaton site I could only find applications for light SUV's, although regular Eaton differentials were listed for vettes. From what I could gather the main carbon fiber components were the posi-trac bits and MAYBE the case....the gears they mentioned being some sort of forging.... I don't know what to make of it. I would think you could get away with even more being carbon fiber, but I only saw one picture of the assembly and it had no labelling to say what part was made out of what. They seem to want you to ask them directly after filling out a huge e-mail return form.
That Ford IRS is a standard "porsche-style" inboard brake model...
http://www.dutchmanms.com/1_indep9rears.html
That was the only one I saw on the 'site.
These are the bolt on frame section things common in streetrodders, but these are apparently a nightmare to install in a vette as they are "thicker" front to rear than the vette, don't use transverse leafs and, most importantly, don't use the vette-type trailing arms at all, which isn't clearly shown in the diagram. These use a three longitudinal arrangement rather than the vette lateral and minor longitudinal. This of course entirely changes the mode of wheel aspect retention and alignment and again, is completely different and experimental in achieving balancing.
This design was precisely what I asked about from the custom rod place in west Texas, only made by Heidt's. As I said before, they literally begged me not to do it, telling me there would be little left that was "vette" after finishing.
The inboard brakes are a monster to get cool air to on a vette. Not only that, but installation requires a re-arching of the frame rails, changing the rear fender wells and more or less complete elimination of the interior cargo wells.
...not a "drop in" replacement at all! Sooner or later someone could and might make an altered 9" center section only for the vette system....but this isn't it. I noticed they offer some nifty halfshafts that might be available in vette format....hmmm....but then again lots of vendors offer those directly in vette format.
The whole set-up WAS $4K, without gears, but all polished and powder coated, which is really a hell of a lot cheaper than the TD center section only near $3K, with no suspension parts included.
______________________
On the Eaton site I could only find applications for light SUV's, although regular Eaton differentials were listed for vettes. From what I could gather the main carbon fiber components were the posi-trac bits and MAYBE the case....the gears they mentioned being some sort of forging.... I don't know what to make of it. I would think you could get away with even more being carbon fiber, but I only saw one picture of the assembly and it had no labelling to say what part was made out of what. They seem to want you to ask them directly after filling out a huge e-mail return form.
KNURLY!!! You can't put a mere DOLLAR value on that!!! 
) learn this quickly when they try to use what's known to be strong on street machines with 40" 75+ pound lugged wheels pounding into rocks and other huge shocks. Only problems with those industrial size things is the huge rotating mass is slow to spin up, tolerates high RPM poorly and weighs so much it eats performance. The Ford 9" design is just one of the best made in that weight and use class - and that quick-change deal is just beautiful.
