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02-22-2023, 08:20 AM
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Re: 1963 - 1979 Vette four link install.
...as in a stock rear frame and width? I think L79racer on here has the short 4-link from Autofab.
https://www.racingjunk.com/suspensio...=6&from=search I have an old stocker by Billy Nees if that helps... |
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02-22-2023, 08:56 AM
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Re: 1963 - 1979 Vette four link install.
Larry.
remember the '66 vette I had...Built in winter of '73/'74 I did it when I was 24 years old. There are tricks. I used the stock frame rails, cut them loose and just reversed them side to side and inward. That gives 7" per side the way that factory frame is angled then reversed. The glass floor is just sectioned and laid back in place...no tin work, all glass. Not an equal lengths 4 link, but worked quite well. The rear cross member was another trick to get the drive shaft through and cut back for the tire height clearance. I think I still have pictures of the build in an old scrap book. It was legal. At first in M/P with the transverse spring. There are a couple benefits to using a Dana. Figured that out when building it. Esp. if you keep the engine in the stock location, like the rules back then. Then NHRA made it a gasser and I converted to coil overs. What I built was very similar to what Kenneth Counts and Tom Weakley were building. Funny thing is I never met them till at the track and after the build. Kevin Hall is supposed to have my car. Not sure how much of what I did is still there. I will be glad to help if you decide to go that way. Larry, Buy one of my Gen 3's. they are going to be legal. Finish the Quay car you already looked at. It is farther along and has a 7.50 cage, now. I have Lewis Mosley's SS/G BB Gen 3 too. It came to me with a G-Force in it.
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02-22-2023, 09:06 AM
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Re: 1963 - 1979 Vette four link install.
Adger, Thank you. I have decided to use a move conventional package.
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02-22-2023, 02:38 PM
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Re: 1963 - 1979 Vette four link install.
FWIW we have chosen to stick with ladder bars in the gen 3 we run heads up stuff with. Car has been 1.08 60' NA with a 29.5x10.5 slick.
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02-22-2023, 03:31 PM
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Re: 1963 - 1979 Vette four link install.
Build a 1978-1980 Malibu just like the SRD-built car raced by Larry Kopp.
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02-22-2023, 07:23 PM
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Re: 1963 - 1979 Vette four link install.
SS d6. I like your comment about the G body. I know from experience those are good packages.
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02-22-2023, 07:26 PM
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Re: 1963 - 1979 Vette four link install.
SST 7250, I like your comment about a ladder bar. I know from experience they work very well. My reason for asking about a four link in the Vette was because of the limited space available. It is a non-issue because I have scratched the Vette idea.
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