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71 duster with coil over?? #1738461
01/25/15 07:37 PM
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has anyone run abody on the street with stock suspension except with coil over instead of torsion bars.im putting big block in with headers.pictures be nice. THANKS

Re: 71 duster with coil over?? [Re: jas4210] #1738462
01/25/15 07:48 PM
01/25/15 07:48 PM
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Taxes & Virus's R-US, NY
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Yup...I have Magnum Force conversions on both of my cars...The Duster is more race, but the Cuda gets driven on the street a lot...Might put the Duster on the street some day...











'70 Cuda,...605 EFI Hemi Street Car (6.20 best pass, 1.33 60ft)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYw6RA-k5Bk (6.25 at 108.75mph from inside car)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zQEb9uxFng (6.25 at 108mph from outside car)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCvfzsC4NgM (9.9)

'66 Barracuda AWB Stretched nose Blown 440 Car in build stage

'71 Duster Drag Car 400 Low Deck 512 best 6.002 at 115.44mph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znuo3jMUXTk
Re: 71 duster with coil over?? [Re: Dragula] #1738463
01/26/15 02:31 PM
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I don't think I would do it without some type of additional bracing at the shock towers. That is a lot of weight transferred out pretty far from the frame rail. I would think it would want to make the frame rails roll in.


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Re: 71 duster with coil over?? [Re: skicker] #1738464
01/26/15 11:52 PM
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I don't think I would do it without some type of additional bracing at the shock towers. That is a lot of weight transferred out pretty far from the frame rail. I would think it would want to make the frame rails roll in.




Have you done one? My Cuda pro street car has had one since 2002...No extra bracing, plenty of street miles. The Duster was already welded to the cage.


'70 Cuda,...605 EFI Hemi Street Car (6.20 best pass, 1.33 60ft)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYw6RA-k5Bk (6.25 at 108.75mph from inside car)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zQEb9uxFng (6.25 at 108mph from outside car)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCvfzsC4NgM (9.9)

'66 Barracuda AWB Stretched nose Blown 440 Car in build stage

'71 Duster Drag Car 400 Low Deck 512 best 6.002 at 115.44mph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znuo3jMUXTk
Re: 71 duster with coil over?? [Re: Dragula] #1738465
01/28/15 06:04 AM
01/28/15 06:04 AM
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Park Forest, IL
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I think Bob's Pro Fab has a kit that uses stock A-arms and such. He is a member here too.


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Re: 71 duster with coil over?? [Re: slantzilla] #1738466
01/28/15 11:16 AM
01/28/15 11:16 AM
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I think Bob's Pro Fab has a kit that uses stock A-arms and such. He is a member here too.




This. My brother has one of Bob's kits on his car.

Re: 71 duster with coil over?? [Re: Dragula] #1738467
01/28/15 12:23 PM
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The one I built was done in 92 before all the aftermarket kits were available. It was a 73 Dart Sport that had the torsion bars cranked almost all the way up for about 15 years of its life. The front suspension needed rebuilt when I got it. When I took it apart the lower control arm bushings sleeve had slid all the way to the outside and the bushings were toast. After everything was replaced with new, both front wheels laid in at the top with all of the adjustment on the uppers all the way out. I tried the offset bushings and they still didn't give enough adjustment for the drivers side. It was almost like the frame rails were twisted in at the tops. In hindsight I wish I would have made a pair of longer upper control arms and fixed it that way.
Mine was rebuilt with 2x3 from the front bumper to the rear spring hangers. Tubular uppers and lowers and a manual rack. I used the 73-76 A Body spindles but changed out the two bolts for the lower ball joints to the factory brackets that locate the LBJ in the control arm. There was a cage bar similar to what you have running thru the firewall to the cage. The rack mounts were made adjustable when it was built so that setting bump steer could be done at the rack and at the spindle.
So yea in a way I kind of have been thru it...maybe same thing only different.


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