A body suspension feel???

72bluNblu said
Not too surprising that you’re maxed out at +2.5* of caster, probably stock UCA’s and bushings. So that was the alignment as it was before?

/6 cars did come with smaller torsion bars than the v8 cars did. And even the V8 bars were too small, especially once you add radial tires. Now I wouldn’t recommend anything smaller than 1” torsion bars. PST makes some nice 1.03’s, they’re a forum sponsor.

Have you checked the condition of your suspension bushings, ball joints, tie rod ends etc?

Thanks for the torsion bar info, I'll look into that for sure. Mine measure out at .875 and appear to be original by the patina.

So when I purchased the car, the previous owner was perplexed by how it drove so bad so he took it to a quite well respected (by others...not me) tire shop in my area for a front alignment and to have new tie rod ends and some other parts installed. When I brought it home, I had let my son drive it as a treat to him. He reported that he thought he was going to die a few times. I then tore into the body work and when I had the front end removed and had access to the eccentrics (can't see yet alone reach over or around those silly 17" wheels the last guy put on it) that I would check the alignment.

I hung buckets of water on the front frame to simulate the weight of all the missing parts and aligned it with the hope it would be OK after assembly and the numbers did not change. My water trick worked as they are still the same as what I posted in my last post.

What I found originally when I did my "as found" from the tire store (besides finger tight tie rod ends) matched the paperwork I found in the glove box. They used the specs for a "Dodge/Ram/SRT/Demon and according to their document, and verified by my "Fastrax" alignment tool was:
Camber L -.6, R -.4 Caster L -.5 R 0.7 and total toe of .25. They were shooting for a target caster of 0.3-1.3 LOL! They used color ink and their camber on both sides was in red ink and the caster on the left was red too. They sent this guy away with 6/10 parameters red and charged him $238!

I honestly do not know the condition of the control arm bushings... that and heavier torsion bars are on my list to work on. My problem is that I'm a perfectionist and I have a bad habit of sinking too much money into things like this. I'm going to try to throttle myself and not go too crazy like buying QA1 stage 3 or something like that. I used to live a couple miles from QA1 and like their parts. I'll probably do a little at a time to spread it out.