DOES THE HDK SUSPENSION K-MEMBER HANDLE BETTER THAN A T-BAR SUSPENSION?

goldduster318 said

Looks good. It's very much like my ToddRon Crossmember I've had since 2018 for the T56 Magnum. The top part having a 3D shape and not being a loop of 1/2" bar stock (which btw you can bend with your hands if one end is in a vice) is key for structural stiffness. If you weld that in to what's left of the original crossmember and the floor like I did it will be excellent. I may need to make a new bottom crossmember or at least part of it for mine since it took a large road construction rock in IL on I-80 on Power Tour.

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Not going to say I didn't take some inspiration from the ToddRon crossmember. But with my motor about 1.75" further forward than stock, and the $700 that Modern Driveline wanted, plus the fact that they seemed to be perpetually on back order, I figured I would work up my own. So I got my motor and trans where I wanted it and started taking measurements and laying out my own. Pretty sure even if I had started with a ToddRon one, I would have had to start over anyways.

And yes, it will be welded to the floor.

One small advantage to the having the motor forward is, I think I was able to keep the crossmember higher than the ToddRon one. Not for sure, just going off some eyeball measurements and other hints. But it's not much higher, maybe only 1/2".