Want to do suspension..

1994redram said
I rebuilt mine suspension when I did my V8 swap. Used hellwig sway bar, PST 1.03 bars, QA1 upper arms, firm feel steering box, and stock lower bushings and reinforced control arms. Made a pretty big difference. I'm very happy with it but its not a serious corner carving ride, I have a BMW for that.
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That's actually pretty good set up. If you put some decent tires on it you could scare that BMW if you wanted to. The Hotchkis Taxi (a 4 door Satellite!!!) put down faster lap times than the 3-series BMW's that TireRack uses for their tire testing on the same track. With the same driver (one not used to driving the Hotchkis Taxi).



Originalowner73 340duster said
Any known good shocks to run??
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273 said
I bought double adjustable Vikings from PST, but most seem to recommend kyb as a good mid price shock.
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KYB's are awful. "most" people definitely don't recommend them anymore.

Bilsteins are a great shock for larger torsion bars. The Hotchkis Fox shocks I found to be a little better with the 1.12" bars I run, but for anything in the 1" to 1.06" range I doubt I could tell the difference. The Fox's were just a little better matched to the 1.12's.

For a good handling street car the PST 1.03" bars, Bilsteins, Hellwig or Hotchkis sway bars, and some mopar oval track springs out back you could do pretty well. The AFCO 120 lb/in springs went out of production the same time as the Mopar oval tracks went back into production, they're pretty much the same spring (I have both). The 142 lb Afco's would be on the stiff side, they'd be hard to run with a rear sway bar without getting too much oversteer.

Tubular UCA's are a good idea if you want anything you could call a "corner carver", the Moog offset bushings in stock UCA's still won't really get you enough caster for a good set of modern tires. About the most you can get with the offset bushings and stock arms is +3* of caster, which isn't all that much still.

Here's a pretty good formula that covers pretty much all the stuff you'd need to handle well. At least from a suspension standpoint, to make this work with a good set of modern tires you'd want some chassis stiffening too- subframe connectors, torque boxes, etc.