about that 5 inches of front end travel...

[71gtdart]

I only have 3.5 inches of travel on my new dart . on my 67 Belvedere I have almost six inches. I have no upper bump stops on the Belvedere, slant 6 torsion bars, comp engineering 3 way shocks, and worn out rubber bushings.

on the Dart I have new poly bushings, QA1 strut rods with the heim joints, slant 6 torsion bars, QA1 stocker star adjustable shocks, and have the upper and lower bump stops installed.

Now, I want to take the upper bump stop off for more travel, but if I do the shock is going to hit the contact boss coming off the frame where the lower control arm bump stop hits when the suspension bottoms out. the QA1 shocks are much bigger in diameter than the comp engineering shock on the Belvedere. I have trimmed the upper bump stop as far down as I can without the shock hitting.

so the other option is to trim the top off of the lower bump stop and let the car down in the front a little bit. my question is wouldn't turning the torsion bars down hurt the weight transfer since I would be taking preload out of them?

I have almost 2 inches of rake in the car at the present. running super stock springs with the crap clamped out of the front segments, pinion angle 5 degrees nose down, and a snubber 2 inches from the floor. rear spring segments are still clamped as they came.

408 leaving at around 3500rpm on a transbraked powerglide with a 4.86 rear gear.

 

[bOb shingler]

have you hit the track with it at 3" of travel yet? if not try it first.

 

[flyfish]

I have my torsion bars turned down quite a bit, and no it didn't hurt weight transfer on my car...it actually helped. My car sits pretty level though, this is not the best pic, but if you look close I think you can see what I mean. This gives me 4.5 inches of travel, which is the best I can do without changing to offset bushings to fix the camber issues that dropping the front end gives.