A-Body Autocross?
I will agree with both opinions to a point. Coil over suspension is much more user friendly, Easier to tune. The kits from RMS have a ton of time in R/D and have match components to work for the application taking the guess work out of building a suspension set from scratch.How ever I believe a car using T bars and leaf springs can still be set up to compete with some of the fastest cars on the track. (We will see as this is the route I took) Unfortunately setting up a Tbar leaf spring set up is far from just bolt in and go. A ton of factors come in to play when considering components. Driver skill is one of the biggest factors. I'm building an early A to run in many of the same events as wraks71, I have bought some of the pieces (wracks71) he sold off of his car. Moparmitch has a challenger that is running tbar leaf spring set up and was a scca national champ for several years. If his car was to run against the DSE cars I think he would be lacking the H.P. to keep up in an open track event. on a closed coures autocross it would be a coin toss as to how it would perform against the likes of the DSE cars. A prime example of driver skill was a test and tune at DSE open house last year were they had a track rented. The Bowler transmission Torino was there and Kyle Tucker (DSE owner driver of the Gen II camaro) did a couple a laps in the car and bested the owners time by several seconds. Good luck with your build. Tim