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

RustyRatRod said

Let me throw this out. Maybe Denny doesn't know geometry. Maybe he's a good guesser. Or maybe he considers the answers to some of these questions proprietary. Maybe. Do all yall really think he just sat back and made a "guess" as to how to build a suspension? I kinda doubt it. Like I said, I don't have a dog in the hunt. I like the stock Mopar stuff, because naturally, it's cheap, but it's also very effective. If all yall think Denny just rolled the dice and "made up" a suspension, I think yall are sadly mistaken.

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I learned about front end / rear end geometry in my Direct Connection Suspension manual in the 70's (we called it front end blueprinting) , got a refresher in the early 90's way before you could google it and actually had find it for yourself. Thank you Heidts Suspension for the tutorial (first three pages) in their your catalogs. Remember catalogs?

For the average hot rod / street car, nothing tricky about it, it is NOT rocket science......the fundamental basics NEVER change. If you can draw a straight line....go to the head of the class.

The reason I and HDK do not get too excited about what works best for auto-cross is because there are not only too many variables car to car, but in reality it is a very very small amount of the market. Would I run anything more than 6 degrees of caster on my street car....no thanks. Or cruise my streets with excessive camber....no chance and neither would 99% of the street and strip rides I build for. All about bump steer and tire (non) wear.

I bet I was working on eliminating bump steer before a lot of you were born.

1975...me and my friends drag car, we learned part of going fast is keeping the front tires straight regardless of suspension travel.

even back then, instead of just guessing hoping for the best, we read, experimented, tested and learned. BTW, it was a freakin' blast!