getting cracks in rear panel

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getting cracks in rear panel

Postby utah vega » Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:46 pm

Anyone else seen cracks develop here? I'm wondering if this flexxing could be part of my wheel hop also. (I've beefed up all my link mounts and am running overkill adjustable links) how much bracing do you guys think I need to weld in and where to prevent this from flexing?
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Re: getting cracks in rear panel

Postby Smiley » Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:55 pm

Are you runnig traction bars or raised upper control arm brackets ?
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Re: getting cracks in rear panel

Postby utah vega » Tue Jul 30, 2013 12:10 am

no the link locations are still stock and no traction bars, I always figured 4 link was designed to not need trac bars haha apparently these cars need them though
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Re: getting cracks in rear panel

Postby Smiley » Tue Jul 30, 2013 1:52 am

The Motion V8 Vega's used upper control arm relocation brackets that raised the axle mounting points about 3 inches.
There is a guy on Ebay selling reproductions of the Lakewood Traction bars for Vega's.
Some people also run poly bags inside the rear springs.
Stock vega's have wheel hop, this will cause and accelerate cracks in the rear floor.
I would weld up the crack and try some of the above to stop the wheel hop.
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Re: getting cracks in rear panel

Postby anorexicvega » Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:45 pm

Imo if your making decent power, your better off running a straight upper link bars. As well as moving the rear mounting point up. When it comes to all mounting locations, you better off making brackets with multiple mounting locations.
(Similar to what the guys are using on foxbody mustangs) If you have a cage, which most of the cages ive seen installed in h-bodies don't incorporate this, but I prefer tieing the upper and lower front mounts into the cage/subframe connectors.
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Re: getting cracks in rear panel

Postby Smiley » Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:28 pm

I would agree that straight upper links would be stronger and easier to make, but a most people buy the stock shaped ones and then find out they need to raise the upper mounts and could have used straight upper links.
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Re: getting cracks in rear panel

Postby utah vega » Fri Aug 02, 2013 4:36 pm

Well I'll try welding that up and try to add some bracing in there wherever I can. For the wheel hop I think I'll just throw some traction bars on for now, I'd really like to just back half it and go with ladder bars
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Re: getting cracks in rear panel

Postby 454Vega » Fri Aug 02, 2013 4:55 pm

Traction bars stopped my wheel hop,it was violent before.
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Re: getting cracks in rear panel

Postby T-FATTY » Fri Aug 02, 2013 5:00 pm

I put hop-stop upper control arm relo brackets, it went from violent wheel hop to zero. Originals come up on ebay or someone here has blueprints to build your own.
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Re: getting cracks in rear panel

Postby Smiley » Fri Aug 02, 2013 6:51 pm

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Re: getting cracks in rear panel

Postby utah vega » Fri Aug 02, 2013 11:54 pm

Hmm that there looks tempting.. I could build those pretty easy, and that there stopped your wheel hop completely?
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Re: getting cracks in rear panel

Postby cosvega76 » Sat Aug 03, 2013 8:28 am

I did something similar, raised the rear of the upper control arm up 2", along with making some tubular upper control arms:

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Yes, it cured the wheelhop problem.


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