Gonna be wedging a 96 grand am. should i notch still or no?
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Sun, 02/12/2012 - 11:59pm
Re: Wedging
Mon, 02/13/2012 - 7:50am
I will never notch a grand am, cavy, etc. again. Luminas and celbs i would.
Re: Wedging
Mon, 02/13/2012 - 7:58am
Tuck, pre-bend, and run the rear bumper high....JMO
Re: Wedging
Tue, 02/14/2012 - 8:37pm
it was rolled, rear is messed up a little so thought id try a wedge. laying the trunk in flat and welding it up.
Re: Wedging
Fri, 02/17/2012 - 3:19pm
also when tucking weld it if you can helps rear from pulling apart
Re: Wedging
Fri, 02/17/2012 - 3:43pm
I ran a few gran-am and many other chev compact car and i always notch them and pre-bent if not it will go down on you, like many of the newer full size chev. I wouldnt weld to much on the back end, i always had good result with bolting the trunk lid with 10x 3/8 bolts that way it folds real nice. If you do what i said i wouldnt flaten the trunk.
Re: Wedging
Fri, 02/17/2012 - 10:05pm
Be careful wedging a compact without any frame reinforcments, leaf springs, or other mods or they will go down instead of rolling in like previously stated.
Re: Wedging
Sat, 02/18/2012 - 11:31am
coney78 wrote:
I ran a few gran-am and many other chev compact car and i always notch them and pre-bent if not it will go down on you, like many of the newer full size chev. I wouldnt weld to much on the back end, i always had good result with bolting the trunk lid with 10x 3/8 bolts that way it folds real nice. If you do what i said i wouldnt flaten the trunk.
already beat and flattened the trunk lid as it was real messed up. had to run it over a few to get it started to go flat. it has 9 bolys in it to hold it together. couldnt beat to flatten cuz it was almost apart. putting a few more bolts in it. 4 all thread threw frame after its welded in and a few other bolts to hold it all tight.
Re: Wedging
Sat, 02/18/2012 - 11:33am
STROMI wrote:
Be careful wedging a compact without any frame reinforcments, leaf springs, or other mods or they will go down instead of rolling in like previously stated.
will keep that in mind. had a few ideas i was gonna try. thinking of some others. i hope it will roll in. might prebend to make sure. we will see when i get further along.
it is a clean car. just hearing bad things about the 2.4
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