Drew-Pritchett
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Came across these on summit racing. Anyone have any experience or thoughts on these? How much fabbing is needed. I'd love something like this.
Are those components really substantial enough to be under a Chrysler C-body, considering their Mustang II heritage?
Came across these on summit racing. Anyone have any experience or thoughts on these? How much fabbing is needed. I'd love something like this.
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It's gonna be a ton of fabrication and nobody here is gonna be able to help you.
The Mustang II stuff if great for street rods etc. The geometry is for a short, narrow car. They stretch the center to make it kinda work with a wider car. It's just not gonna work real well with a longer, wider car.
Then there's the kit... 54-64? That represents 3 or 4 different frame designs within the Chrysler line up. It can't bolt up to all of them.
The next thing is fabrication. Are you willing to do all the cutting/welding/measuring/fabrication etc.? It's not for the faint of heart. Finding a good shop to do it will be $$$. And that's if you can find a shop that can do it right.
The better alternative is to tighten up what's there... Maybe add sway bars. The torsion bar suspension was state of the art when the car was new. It's still a good design. Putting this garbage on the car isn't going to make the car handle any better... In fact, I'd bet on it making it worse.
Nothing wrong with a 64 front end that disc brakes and an aftermarket sway bar won't cure.
Kevin
New i just need to find an after market sway bar. Haven't found one yet for this model. Thanks for your input.
Unfortunately, my research yielded zilch in that area. Other than the CPD bars and the Imperial bars look the same, in their shape and mounting. The part numbers seem to be anchored in the later 1950s, too. Everything changed for the 1965 C-body cars.
The interesting thing is that the '65 B-body illustrations look very similar (bar configuration) to the 1964 Chrysler items, other than the bushings and retainers the bars mount in. For the front supports and the "retainers" to the front strut bars. Fashioning the end atrtachment bushings our of urethane might be an option, though?
The GM pickup truck front sway bars, which possibly go back to 1967 rather than 1973, have a stub end where they go into a rubber insulator which is u-clamped to the lower control arm. Most are about 1.0+" in diameter and the rubber has some urethane replacements (aftermarket), I believe. The '67-'72 2wd models will have a narrower track than the '73+ models will. Might use the '65+ C-body sway bar-to-strut rod mounts with those bars, depending upon the width of the two bars and strut rods? For that matter, as the front supports are only a pivot point, it would be the end-width, combined with the later C-body mounts to the strut rods that would allow later model C-body bars to be used? For which there might be some larger aftermarket bars available?
I believe that Helwig used to make rear bars, to balance out the larger front bars? From there, it would be some 15x7 OEM wheels, HD shocks, and better tires.
Possbilities?
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