Best tubular upper control arms?

hangten said

my car is a 75 Hang ten Dart that I want to set up like a 70's Trans Am racer. Will be mostly a street/offramp carver. will be running 15" minilite style wheels and want the car to have that racecar stance. Any suggestions on how to set the car up (shocks, springs, torsion bars, sway bars) would be greatly appreciated.

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Who makes a minilite style wheel??? I am interested.

I'll go along with autoxcuda's suspension recommendation, though I prefer a polygraphite bushings myself for consistency. An alternative shock that has been recommended by others here is the Monroe Gas.

Not wild about mixed tire sizes either. Going wider at the rear than front promotes understeer. This isn't a big issue for a car with a rear weight bias, like a Porsche, but for an American V-8, it'll plow.

I don't know if autoxcuda has had problems with rubbing rear tires on the leaf springs. I have with cop car rims and found that fabricating a Watts link cured the problem, but limited wheel travel. An off-the-shelf Panhard bar (aka track bar) would cure the problem, too. However, the Panhard bar, in my experience makes the rear axle respond differently in left and right turns.