desperado
dodge boy
I have a 73 dart sport. I am going to convert from front drum to front disc.anyway my question is.does anybody make a coil over that will bolt in with the factory control arms.i really would like to get rid of the torsion bars.
There's absolutely no way I would ever run anything like that on the street. Notice that all of those cars are drag strip only?
There are plenty of people out there that has run coil overs on the stock arms on the street. The stock lowers only need to be welded together to brace them and a small support bolt put through the back side of the LCA bushing to keep the bushing from trying to pull off the pin. I would however strongly recommend putting in some sort of bracing for the upper shock mounts as they were not designed to support the weight of the vehicle.
Here's a link to some pics of a nice setup:
http://hemiduster.com/coilover.htm
nice job on the car in the link....it appears to have snout bars tied into the upper shock mount. As long as those snout bars are attached to a roll cage and not just the sheet metal, that set-up is stronger than dirt!
just my opinion.....Hey, where's that likey button?
Aren't torsion bars superior in many ways? Don't Porsche's use them? It keeps the weight down low for better handling. It seems that coil-overs main advantage is getting more "race tuning" options and an opportunity to spend money and time.
Aren't torsion bars superior in many ways? Don't Porsche's use them? It keeps the weight down low for better handling. It seems that coil-overs main advantage is getting more "race tuning" options and an opportunity to spend money and time.
Here's a thought... Go to a parts yard and find a 88 Accord or just about any modern car and have a good look at the structure around their upper strut mount.
To do something similar to an A-body would take strong fab skills but hey.. deleting the upper arm, upper ball joint, etc.. could happen.
In fact, if my memory serves correct, it was done to a second gen' B'cuda using Nissan parts, most everything from the firewall forward was Nissan except the body.
I don't think you want front wheel drive like that build had so keep in mind the caster angles are a lot different. Nearly opposite actually, so where a front wheel drive has the upper strut mount near its firewall, rear wheel drive would be much further forward.