Subframe Graft

[ObsidianScareCrow]

I have a 2000 camaro SS and a 1981 el Camino
Would it be easier and cheaper to graftthe front subframe engine and all with slight modifications to the gbody and reinforce the frame or build a new frame and mount the engine to it?

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[UNGN]

It would be way easier/cheaper to just use the frame that came in the '81 El camino with the proper mounts.

The front suspension of a '99 camaro isn't any better than a properly modded G-body and the brakes (or larger 13" C5 Corvette brakes) will swap over with junkyard parts and some cheap brackets.

 

[ObsidianScareCrow]

Is cheaper if I already have the parts?

 

[ed1948]

graph = graft
Hey, maybe you're onto something that the G Body people here completely overlooked. Horticulturists, over many years of trail and error, have been grafting branches from different species to create a hardier, improved plant.
If you have the parts then do it and please be sure to post pics of your progress. We love project pics.
Oh, and BTW, welcome to the forum.

 

[ObsidianScareCrow]

Every well planed project begins with a graph

 

[ObsidianScareCrow]

graph = graft
Hey, maybe you're onto something that the G Body people here completely overlooked. Horticulturists, over many years of trail and error, have been grafting branches from different species to create a hardier, improved plant.
If you have the parts then do it and please be sure to post pics of your progress. We love project pics.
Oh, and BTW, welcome to the forum.

Please explain this "trail and error" was this the trail least taken?

 

[UNGN]

The F-body suspension mounts to the unit body. That isn't going to work of a G-body. The G-body body can't support the loads and you'd have to tie the F-body front end to the G-body frame AND the body... that likely won't end well.

Even if you were wanting to graft F-body sheet metal onto the front of the el camino, it is probably easier to make mounts to attach just the sheet metal (errr, plastic?) to the G-body frame/body than to attach the whole, complete front end to the G-body frame.

 

[pontiacgp]

The 2000 Camaro does not have a sub frame, they are a unibody with a K member

 

[565bbchevy]

Would it be easier and cheaper to graftthe front subframe engine and all with slight modifications to the gbody

With the aftermarket support already in place for Gbody suspension, brakes and everything in between I don't see how attempting this would be easier or cheaper in the long run and the El Camino which already comes with a full frame and an engine bay that will consume a big block it would take well beyond "slight modifications" and in the end I think you end up with a just another Gbody that will need a new frame. IMO

 

[ObsidianScareCrow]

So either way it's probably better to build another frame and body swap it sense I'll be replacing everything under the sheet metal anyway?