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Sox & Martin coil over & rack modification.
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 11 6:18 pm
by Blue
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
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 11 7:10 pm
by Pete
Very informative, thanks
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 11 9:05 pm
by Pete
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...........
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 11 9:30 pm
by db
Excellent! The rack crossmember looks like what i have in mind for the Belve. Cheers Blue
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 11 1:32 pm
by Anonymous
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.
Baccy
Re: Sox & Martin coil over & rack modification.
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 11 11:00 pm
by jerry
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
AKA Jerry II