I don’t care about stiffness and hard ride I want concise handling if I race
Street manners unimportant
Street manners unimportant
It's because the tire technology sucked 50 years ago. Too stiff and it overpowers the tire sidewall tech that was available to them from way back when. Nowadays modern tire technology and wider tires can keep up with heavier torsion bars or a heavier sway bar. Also the designers had to strike a balance between too harsh a ride and too compliant. Most people bought this stuff for daily A to B transportation and needed to live with it every day. Radials didnt really hit the scene until mid 1970s. Until then it was bias ply or fiberglass belted tires.Seems the trend is to get >1.00 at a minimum nowadays.....with a good shock. Not sure why Mopar didn't do this from the start with the B/RB A's if it was such an improvement.... I mean they had million dollar suspension dynos and could probably replicate any torsion bar rate but they stayed with the .8xx for even the big blocks?
I don’t care about stiffness and hard ride I want concise handling if I race
Street manners unimportant
Seems the trend is to get >1.00 at a minimum nowadays.....with a good shock. Not sure why Mopar didn't do this from the start with the B/RB A's if it was such an improvement.... I mean they had million dollar suspension dynos and could probably replicate any torsion bar rate but they stayed with the .8xx for even the big blocks?
I don’t care about stiffness and hard ride I want concise handling if I race
Street manners unimportant
The correct answer: it depends.
How about some more info on your car, and the application?
Better make sure that crossmember is up to task at the torsion bar lugs when sticking them "baby leg" diameter bars under it. These things are 50 years old. A lot of em are fairly rusty inside. My sons car and mine werent at the lug mounts but were pitted on the bottom where water probably layed in them. I sandblasted them clean inside, touched up the lug welds and epoxy coated in there.
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I welded the sub frame connectors to the torsion bar sockets.Better make sure that crossmember is up to task at the torsion bar lugs when sticking them "baby leg" diameter bars under it. These things are 50 years old. A lot of em are fairly rusty inside. My sons car and mine werent at the lug mounts but were pitted on the bottom where water probably layed in them. I sandblasted them clean inside, touched up the lug welds and epoxy coated in there.
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Mine has 3x3 square connectorsThe subframe connectors that are in the car now, are getting replaced with 2x3 14 gage box steel.
Better make sure that crossmember is up to task at the torsion bar lugs when sticking them "baby leg" diameter bars under it. These things are 50 years old. A lot of em are fairly rusty inside. My sons car and mine werent at the lug mounts but were pitted on the bottom where water probably layed in them. I sandblasted them clean inside, touched up the lug welds and epoxy coated in there.
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