Our Three

[Chris]

Mine:




Dad's


Working towards:



Uncle's

[silas]

howdy.

that is one wild lookin front end conversion on the baja. i've never seen those style of fenders before. are those flared rear fenders as well? where did you uncle score all that. looks circa late 70's early 80's

[Pipes]

Wicked Baja! I want!   Nice collection of machines, the flames on your pops looks wicked.  I also dig your selection in rims.    

[Chris]

It's called a Trans-Am baja kit...they're pretty rare.  I've only seen photos of 2 others, but have heard of maybe 1/2 dozen.  The fenders are wider-than-stock.

I've been putting a lot of time into this baja in the last month and it's starting to show.

I had the beam, gas tank, and swaybar sandblasted...Then my Uncle bought one for me to use since it was proving to be expensive and slow to have them done professionally.  I did the Thing front trailing arms and spindles and my Uncle painted them with Hammerite.  My Dad painted all the steering components and the rear tranny mount with it too.  My Uncle painted the beam and swaybar with HD gloss black paint.  We've still got a double-tube front bumper, rear engine cage, gas tank, and sprint bars to paint - some of which may already be in paint as I haven't to my Uncle in 2 days.

The wheels are Ansen slotted mags, 15x8.5 rears with 30x9.5 Firestone Destination M/T's, 14x6 fronts with 225/70 Firestone Destination LE's.

I mounted Eagle Talon cloth buckets seats in it we got out of a junkyard and got 3\" Tiger lap belts.

Trans will be a `72 (IRS) with 8-bolt 4.375 R&P and 3.80/2.06/1.32/.82  gears.

We installed urethane bushings in the rear torsion and used squareback 23.5mm diameter torsion bars for a little stiffer ride.  We are also going to use a urethane trans mount kit.

It's got a new M/C, new hard lines, new front bus lines (440mm), new rear wheel cylinders (19mm), and all new brake pads too.

The rear luggage tray is awfully rusty so we also bought a \"full-size\" rear luggage tray from www.glass-action.com and my Uncle will be installing that pretty soon here.

Lots of other work to do...I update a lot too

[Chris]

[Chris]

Wheels:

Both my car and my Dad's car are being converted to Porsche pattern shortly.  I'm trying to sell my 4-lug chromies right now for funding.

I will have 5-lug Porsche chromies that are heavily worked over...I'm going to have (2) widened from 15x5.5 to 15x8 and then have all four powdercoated red.

My Dad's wheels are the base model Porsche Boxster wheels.  16x6 ET50 in front and 16x7 ET40 in rear.  We're having the tires mounted here soon and I'll be usin' them for awhile  :mullet:  They're gettin' wrapped with 205/55 and 215/55 Yokohama Avid T4's.

[Chris]

[Pipes]

Wheels:
My Dad's wheels are the base model Porsche Boxster wheels.  16x6 ET50 in front and 16x7 ET40 in rear.  We're having the tires mounted here soon and I'll be usin' them for awhile  :mullet:  They're gettin' wrapped with 205/55 and 215/55 Yokohama Avid T4's.

205's in the front?  Do you have hardcore rubbing problems? I have 195x50x15's in the front and man they restrict the turning radius so much! Makes me crazy!    

[Chris]

What's the width and offset of your wheels?  Brakes, spindles?  Ride height?  Fenders? K/L or BJ beam?

We haven't actually mounted them on his car yet, which has CB drop spindles/discs that bump the trackwidth 1/2\", but I'll have them on my car Friday.  I've done a lot of research and experimented a bit, and they should work fine on either car.  We could narrow a beam need be, but I don't expect it'll be neccessary.

These wheels have only 38.9mm frontspace - which is ~3.5mm less than a 5.5\" ET40 wheel.      

[Chris]

Had a great day at the local burger cruise. Just before I went I got the front 16's on my car and the suspension adjusted so they wouldn't rub. I also got my front bumper mounted.

To get the front centercaps on we had to modify both the dust caps and speedo cable in addition to running an 8mm spacer per side  

In affect I had 6\" ET42 wheels with 205/55's and I couldn't lower the front end more than ~2.5\" (Avis adjusters) without rubbing...and ya' got to go lower than that    

I talked with my Dad for a few hours throughout the day about all the suspsension/brake/fender/wheel&tires options and we came up with a final game plan that seems to fit our needs best.

My Dad's blue car will get:
Front:
Avis adjustable powdercoated beam
CB drop spindles and disc brakes
Stock height KYB GR2's
1-1/2\" wider than stock CCC early style(`66/`67-down) fenders
Rossi headlights
8mm spacers
modified dust caps
modified speedometer cable
16x6\" ET50 wheels with 205/55's

Rear:
1-1/4\" wider than stock CCC `72-down fenders
Very nice Type III brakes (everything almost new, new, or better than new)
1\" (25.4mm) studded spacers
16x7\" ET40 wheels with 215/55's
Any style `67-down tail light that comes by for the right price

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My car gets:
Front:
Stock width upright headlight fenders
Avis adjustable beam
2\" shorter than stock KYB GR2's
Bug spindles
Empi \"lowered\" BJ's
Stock German drums redrilled 5-130 by FAT with top carbon-metallic shoes, bottom organic shoes, and new 22mm wheel cylinders
*`67 912 15x5.5\" chromie wheels(not in the best of shape though) with 195/60's

Rear:
Stock width `72-down fenders
Stock German drums redrilled 5-130 by FAT with front carbon-metallic shoes, back organic shoes, and 22mm wheel cylinders
~3/4\"(~19mm) studded spacers
*`67 912 15x5.5\" chromie wheels(not in the best of shape though) with 195/60's

*Might have them powdercoated gloss black because the chrome is peeling

[Chris]

So I couldn't help but start thinking about my rear wheel options     Widening is just SOOOOOO freakin' cool. I could do 15x7 steel wheels with ET45 and they'd have identical fender clearance to the `73 5.5\" ET26 sport bug wheels. They'd only have 5mm more backspace than the 16x7 ET40 wheels I'm running now, and thats not a problem as I clearanced everything sufficiently already. 215/60's-15's on back with stock fenders and no spacers  B)  

In front the stock 15x5.5 ET40 Porsche steel wheels will only tuck in ~4mm more than the 16x6 ET50 wheels (with 8mm spacers) currently do, but the tires (195/60's) are over 1/2\" diameter shorter, so I should be able to go a little bit lower before bringing out the baseball bat   :lol:

I predict I'll have the fenders about as filled as you'd want them on a daily driver, hopefully they won't rub in any situation, but look like they should  :mullet:

[Chris]

Been working on lots of stuff, lots of pictures to show, but this is my favorite: