Sox & Martin coil over & rack modification.

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Sox & Martin coil over & rack modification.

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Just found these photo's of Sox & Martin's '73 Pro Stock Duster. Interesting to see how they converted to Coil overs & rack & pinion steering with mostly stock components back in the day. Notice the reversed upper arms for increased caster, the heated and bent steering arms, and the whacking great slice out of one of the chassis legs for header clearance... A lot of work.

http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a65/HE ... ?start=all
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Very informative, thanks :thumbright:
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Had a good look at this - quite complex from the fabbed K member to the revised LCA pivot. Lots of opportunities to get the geometry wrong if you are not quite sure what you are doing.

Can't get my head around the reversed UCA's - they must have either moved the UCA pivot point or revised the LCA position....either way it's not an afternoon's work....

I think nowadays you would just save the pain and shove a set of struts on.........after putting a cutter through the front rails and tubing the whole lot...........
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Excellent! The rack crossmember looks like what i have in mind for the Belve. Cheers Blue :thumbright:
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Very nice work from back in the Day!

If you put a Hemi in an A-Bod, you have a big Headache!!!
Torsion bars are a good idea, until you have a big set of Headers LOL. :?

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Re: Sox & Martin coil over & rack modification.

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Blue wrote:Just found these photo's of Sox & Martin's '73 Pro Stock Duster. Interesting to see how they converted to Coil overs & rack & pinion steering with mostly stock components back in the day. Notice the reversed upper arms for increased caster, the heated and bent steering arms, and the whacking great slice out of one of the chassis legs for header clearance... A lot of work.

http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a65/HE ... ?start=all
Hemi Fred is a well nice guy, spoken to him a couple of times, he was always willing to share info with me

Got quite a collection of machines

Pro Stock Duster
Blown Street Duster
Hemi Challenger or was it a Cuda, forget now

Hes getting ready to take his Twin Turbo Hemi road runner to the track

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