Ultimate daily-driver Gen II A Body to build
Or... Forget the factory front end and put an RMS Alter-K-tion up front! That'd give you adjustable coil overs, bigger brakes and rack and pinion steering to make it handle as good as a new chally.
You don't need any of that. If I had all the money in the world, I still wouldn't put one of those in my car. Though the torsion bar front end is an older design, it works pretty damn well. Plus, there was years and years of empirical, fact-based research and development done by the factory to achieve a decent handling car in a variety of situations. And that was prior to putting those parts into service which actually lasted for decades. Why re-invent the wheel, even if it is a 'dream car'?
If you think about it, the RMS stuff is probably best suited for drag cars that have been converted to coil overs. There is no proven benefit to it on the street over a quality front end rebuild.
Talk to guys that know their way around a road course type car, they'll tell you that you don't need an AlterKtion type deal and that the OE stuff works well, albeit with some upgraded parts.
backed by a GM 200r4 trans and have the alterK front end and rollin' on 9x17 front and 10.5x17 rear mustang Bullitt wheels.
Awesome! Yeah, lets put giant, ugly, late-model Mustang wheels on the car and while we're at it, somehow install a crappy GM slushbox in the car. And all in one sentence! Just curious, what actual benefit would that particular GM trans have over any Mopar passenger car transmission from the last 50 years?
No mention of how to make all that Brand X crap work in a '65 A body either.
Have fun with that.
