Rear Suspension help. (tri. 4-link or Springs).
you woud...MR. RMS...haha but what is the purpose of your car anyways? just drive or track?
Well, Okay. Yes, I have both. The 70 Dart with all the bada$$ stuff (408 sb, 4spd trans, RMS stuff front and rear, Dana 60, all wheel disc, mini tubbed, frame connectors yada yada) That car was built for dual purpose. To be able to support an 11 sec run in the 1/4 mile, which it has the proper equipment to do so: (530 HP /520 TQ, the Dana 60, the 4:11 gears, the big 315's out back, frame connectors, and a compromised rear suspension setup: the triangulated 4 link.)
The other task I'd like it to do was curve a corner, which it also has the ability to do: (the RMS alterkion front end, the street linx rear, the powerful small block and so on) I didn't want the car to do just one thing, I wanted it to be a well rounded out vehicle to perform competitively well at everything it does. (which like Joe says, you have to compromise....somewhere)
I'm a 4 speed guy, I LOVE a manual trans, so that was a compromise at the drag strip, it'll slow ya down trying to row through gears. But im not trying to win money or get all the last bit out of it to try and touch the mid 10's. same for the triangulated rear suspension, a true 4 link car serves a drag car well. But I know I wanted to turn a corner, so I got something that had to do both tasks equally well...the finished product: A nicely rounded, registered, insured, STREET car. :)
However, to do that, it takes more time, more patients, definitely more money, than it does to make a car to do just ONE thing....
so ultimately, what do YOU want? What are you WILLING to compromise?
