VN Group A Rear end setup.

[VN_Luke]

I need to know every single last detail about the rear end setup of vn grouup a commodores

What diff did they run? was it a VL housing?

What wheels, tyres did they run? what offset? (in street trim)

what wheels/tyres did they run in race trim?

were there any modifications to the wheel arches and wheel tubs?

[padrickz88]

Tried to find soe info on google about the wheels, couldnt find anything.......

Apparently the diff was just a VLT diff.... So shorter, 3.45's and 28 spline axles.....

Sorry dude thats all i can confirm lol

[stocky]

heres what i have. taken out of australian muscle car magazine. they had a real good write up on the VN group A. feel free to come by and borrow the magazine luke if youre interested in group A stuff. it has a lot of useful info

Larger wheel arches
- 25mm of extra width to suit 12 inch wide racing tyres
"These wider wheelhouses were fitted by removing (trimming off) a horizontal step that had been added to the VN body, to widen it over the VL whilst using VL rails and floorpan"

Rear Axle
Road car
- Upper and lower trailing arms and a panhard rod
- Borgwarner 7.75 inch LSD with shot-peened gears and a larger crownwheel for greater strength

Race car
- Ford nine inch crown wheel and spool.
- Harrop fine-splined axle shafts with floating hubs on each end with heavy CV joints that allow camber adjusment
- Two rose-jointed lower trailing arms
- Stout single top arm

Wheels and Tyres
Road car
- 17x8 alloys
- Goodyear Eagle tyres. 234/45/17

Race car
- 17x11 cast magnesium wheels
- 12 inch tyres

[immortality]

yeah, the road cars used a VL diff with 3.45 gears.

that article is ace.

have you looked at the Mc Donald Bro's website? they do a rear coil over conversion for the commodore. uses new tubular control arms (all brackets supplied, welding required) to me it looks like the best conversion you could do. almost a full race spec setup really