My 67 seems to have had a later model subframe placed under it. I purchased the car this way. It is a tube car allready welded together. The problem I have is that the tires are too far forward in the wheel opening and hit the front of the fender openings on hard steers and on hard braking. I run tiny DS-2 drag tires up front so I really can go with a smaller tire. Has anyone else encountered this? Are there any other controll arms I need to swap out? It goes straight down the track but this has been nagging at me and I want to figure out what my options are.

Thanks
Milan

Sounds like you need to cut it apart and relocate the S/F back to it's stock position unless you can use adjustable A-arms to move the wheels back.

Try the big sticky over in Brakes and Suspension here.

http://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?t=141451

Good luck and please keep us posted on what you do and how it turn's out.

pdq67

Thanks for the reply Paul. I will look into other A arms. The subframe is attached at the factory Sub Frame MTG points now. moving it gack wont fly. Thanks for the link also

I have heard some early Martz sub frames were 1" forward of stock. Do you see your sub on this web site?
http://www.martzchassis.net/page1.htm
David

David,
The subframe on my car looks like OEM. Are later model camaro subframes longer? I always thought that someone swapped a later model subframe on the car since the steering linkage is in front or the controll arms. I was considering modifying the upper controll arms so as to position the upper ball joint back about 2 inched giving me more caster and clearing the front of the fender.

Milan

Heck, I bet that you have a 2nd Gen. S/F under her and somebody didn't get it lined up right is all so probably the easiest thing to do is pull it out and do it right, match it to a 1st Gen's S/F mounting system and go!

pdq67

If it's a front steer subframe, it can't be original.
Many people ask about putting a front steer in to get better handling, but I have never seen it done. Can you post some pictures?
It might be a second gen Camaro or a 1975 and up Nova?

Please do a search under my handle b/c I've posted about doing this several times!

And I would to my car if I had access to a full shop!

You may have to go back into the Archive's, but my info is all here!

pdq67