HDK Tubular Coil Over for Stock Steering
I now have a set of the HDK LCA stuff to add to the HDK upper shock mount. The LCA is a work of art, as is the bolt-on rear pivot support with all that interlocking going on. The engineer/hotrodder in me immediately wanted to change things, and after a few beers I got to thinking about sealed bearings in the LCA to rotate on the pivot, like a motorcycle swing arm. I will try the lubed bushings for now.
My car is that green KOS Demon I bought from Mike Robbins (see mag cover from Feb 97). It was famous for doing huge wheelies and it did them on stock LCAs and torsion bars. The LCAs weren't even reinforced with those Mancini plates on the bottom and surprisingly the pivot point wasn't spread out. The pivot pin on the stock deal is cantilevered out without support. While the stock K frame may waller out at the pivot attach holes, I have never seen a bent pivot pin. I will be dropping the K frame (my motor is on a plate) and make sure the pivot attach point is good, then beef it up more so it is rock solid. Probably will do all the usual K frame beefups and my K is already pretty heavily modified for the 499. The motor in it now is a very heavy Mega block 540 and I plan to keep doing wheelies.
My intention is to NOT use a rear support. The way I see it, the worse that can happen is I bend the pivot, and I bet that won't happen. If it does I'll copy Denny's pin in a stronger material like heat treated 4130.
I now have a set of the HDK LCA stuff to add to the HDK upper shock mount. The LCA is a work of art, as is the bolt-on rear pivot support with all that interlocking going on. The engineer/hotrodder in me immediately wanted to change things, and after a few beers I got to thinking about sealed bearings in the LCA to rotate on the pivot, like a motorcycle swing arm. I will try the lubed bushings for now.
My car is that green KOS Demon I bought from Mike Robbins (see mag cover from Feb 97). It was famous for doing huge wheelies and it did them on stock LCAs and torsion bars. The LCAs weren't even reinforced with those Mancini plates on the bottom and surprisingly the pivot point wasn't spread out. The pivot pin on the stock deal is cantilevered out without support. While the stock K frame may waller out at the pivot attach holes, I have never seen a bent pivot pin. I will be dropping the K frame (my motor is on a plate) and make sure the pivot attach point is good, then beef it up more so it is rock solid. Probably will do all the usual K frame beefups and my K is already pretty heavily modified for the 499. The motor in it now is a very heavy Mega block 540 and I plan to keep doing wheelies.
My intention is to NOT use a rear support. The way I see it, the worse that can happen is I bend the pivot, and I bet that won't happen. If it does I'll copy Denny's pin in a stronger material like heat treated 4130.