QA1 Six-Link Rear Suspension Conversion Installed
A few of you that go all gaga over this fancy link stuff need to remember that some of the fastest Mopars, both road race and strip, still use a rear leaf setup.
Yup. Exactly so. Tim Werner's "red brick" valiant has hit at 160 mph with torsion bars and leaf springs at Portland International, and put down lap times faster than a C06 Corvette at that track. No kidding. LilCuda owns that car now.
Tomswheels Valiant has turned autoX laps faster than Mary Pozi's Camaro, he runs torsion bars and leaf springs and was giving up 150hp to Mary's 500 hp Camaro.
And then there's the Hotchkis Taxi, a freaking 4 door 1970 Satellite that TireRack's test driver was using to put down faster lap times, with the same tires, as he was putting down with 2012 3 series BMW's that TireRack uses for testing normally. Just a torsion bar and leaf spring car. If you really want to get into it, the new 2017 Ford GT supercar uses a torsion bar suspension set up in the front. And the new Corvette's use a transverse rear leaf spring. Yup. Transverse leaf spring. You heard that right.
Like I said earlier, I appreciate the effort and engineering that went into that 6 link, but it has a very short useful suspension travel range because of all those links, it eliminates the use of tail pipes and ties you to the the stock suspension locations for figuring tire clearance unless you want to re-engineer the whole thing. As for what shops charge, learn how to weld.
