Fabricated A-Body spindle ideas and discussion
So one of the things I tripped over while trying to figure out a steering issue on my '74 was that the frame rails and torsion bars are not flat to the ground. I had assumed that they would be, but in retrospect that doesn't work because even if the factory intended them to be flat to the ground, whatever stance the car is lowered to would affect it. So, I went back and revised my layout using the slope I found on my '74. Except for the stock setup as I figure if will be steeper due to the front end being higher.
Here is the layout for the above setup:
And the F-Body spindle with a standard UBJ:
A-Body spindle:
And finally, stock with manual steering:
In the end, it looks like those are all the dimensions that suspension analyzer needs so I didn't plug them in.
So one of the things I tripped over while trying to figure out a steering issue on my '74 was that the frame rails and torsion bars are not flat to the ground. I had assumed that they would be, but in retrospect that doesn't work because even if the factory intended them to be flat to the ground, whatever stance the car is lowered to would affect it. So, I went back and revised my layout using the slope I found on my '74. Except for the stock setup as I figure if will be steeper due to the front end being higher.
Here is the layout for the above setup:
And the F-Body spindle with a standard UBJ:
A-Body spindle:
And finally, stock with manual steering:
In the end, it looks like those are all the dimensions that suspension analyzer needs so I didn't plug them in.