QA1 Six-Link Rear Suspension Conversion Installed
I know he is. And I also know he's asked for my input a few times too.
I only asked for input when I first got the A- Body car I am working on in March of this year. I've always stayed away from them. You really didn't have anything ground breaking you have done. I was planning on just low buck upgrades for a car to beat around in on the street. But with over 700hp on tap I really can't see just going with 295 tires out back with an offset shackle kit and Hamburg swaybars. I did that in high school. And no it doesn't have leafs anymore. They won't work for what I am doing.
So, I scrapped most of it, and went in a direction of going overboard and not building the cheap route. If I am going to be in there cutting and welding, I might as well do it for the two purposes I see the car being used. So it's a compromise all around. I 've built several Mopar's and have owned a '70 Barracuda for 32 years now. (And that's an all aluminum Hemi)... So, no I don't agree that Chrysler had all of these cars designed perfectly. I know they didn't. I had too many of them.
My point is this. If all of you sit around and whine about every new product that comes out from a company that takes interest in our old Mopars, they won't spend the time to bother with us. Detroit Speed took up an interest in our old cars 5 years ago. And they abandoned it because the feed back was "Mopar guys like the originality of their cars more than performance". This from a company that designs top notch suspension systems for Chevy's and Ford's but not a Mopar (Which has suspension that has common cross platforms). And yes their Quadralink system is what most of the guys are running that want a car to handle. So, I'm left with mini-tubbing and narrowing having custom swaybars bent. While you guys screw around telling everyone about your bolt on mods, I've actually spent time fabbing my own parts and it gets costly and above all time consuming. It would be great if I could just go to someone like Detroit Speed & Engineering and buy a system that works and has success on the track too.
And that's where none of you are doing anything ground breaking other than typing "I can make my own 4-link rear suspension". Sure you can, in your dirt driveway, sitting on jack stands made from cinderblocks and used tires! And you guys amaze me with your skill at narrowing rear housings with no narrowing jig! Wow, you guys are so amazing!
The only thing I can see QA1 did wrong was caving in to purist who won't cut up a Mopar and actually having a completed car done for comparisons. But still I'm interested in what they accomplished.
And talk about a hypocrite 72BluNBlu, didn't you screw up installing your Hotchkis UCA's? And that's why you constantly write about how Heim joints are junk. That's funny I use them on suspension test fixtures everywhere for 20 years now and they last up to 4 million cycles. Funny yours puked out at 7,000 miles.