Pro touring setups- what do you guys use??
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So I recently bought a 68 Coronet that is a post car. I want to go the pro-touring route but it will be sneakey with no billet and chrome on it. I was thinking of probably doing the 2" drop spindles up front with 2" rear leaves lowered in the back. I was thinking kyb gas-a-just shocks and eventually tubular control arms and also I want to box in my k member and a polyurethane front end rebuild kit with subframe connectors. I am wondering what I should run for a sway bar? I know of a local factory sway bar for sale for $75 that came off a super bee. Is that bar ok for what I am trying to do or do I just need to bite the bullet and get the more spendy bars from PST, etc? I want to probably run 17"s for tires and wheels. Let me know what you guys are using!
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Re: Pro touring setups- what do you guys use??
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I need to stay on some sort of a budget and I do love those k members but thats to expensive for me. I will be boxing the k member however and putting in the large police size torsion bars. Super nice dart by the way!
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Re: Pro touring setups- what do you guys use??
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im an a-body guy, but it should still apply.
for a PT car o a budget, heres what i would do (and mostly did)
1. rebuild front with rubber LCA bushings (little more effective spring rate), use the moog offset UCA bushings instead of tubular (cheaper, and almost as effective), poly strut rod and leaf spring bushings. use hardened steel washers between the LBJ and spindle to build in some negative camber, and if theres a taller spindle swap (like m-body), do it for more negative camber gain. 2. weld and reinforce the K-Frame, LCA's, and add subframe connectors 3. biggest sway bars that ADDCO offers (local to me when i bought mine. great bunch of guys) 4. 1 inch t-bars, oval track or hotchkis rear leaves 5. spax or bilstein shocks 6. Power steering: use the FFI stage 3 box. good box 7. move as much weight as you can between the axle centerlines, and reduce weight as much as possible 8. 17 inch wheels with good tires 9. great brakes (im running 11.75 rotor upgrade with 11X3 rear drums, power booster, braided lines, but am contemplating going 13 inch front, 2 piston calipers and 11 inch rear, single pistons for a 4 wheel disc upgrade and less unsprung weight 10,. good seatbelts and seating. the car WILL be faster if the driver is not flopping all over the place.
im running down mini-coopers and CRX's with my duster on the autocross course, and have driven it over 1000 miles in the last month with no complaints about the livibility of the suspension or brakes on the street.
hipe that helps Michael
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Re: Pro touring setups- what do you guys use??
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im an a-body guy, but it should still apply.
for a PT car o a budget, heres what i would do (and mostly did)
1. rebuild front with rubber LCA bushings (little more effective spring rate), use the moog offset UCA bushings instead of tubular (cheaper, and almost as effective), poly strut rod and leaf spring bushings. use hardened steel washers between the LBJ and spindle to build in some negative camber, and if theres a taller spindle swap (like m-body), do it for more negative camber gain. 2. weld and reinforce the K-Frame, LCA's, and add subframe connectors 3. biggest sway bars that ADDCO offers (local to me when i bought mine. great bunch of guys) 4. 1 inch t-bars, oval track or hotchkis rear leaves 5. spax or bilstein shocks 6. Power steering: use the FFI stage 3 box. good box 7. move as much weight as you can between the axle centerlines, and reduce weight as much as possible 8. 17 inch wheels with good tires 9. great brakes (im running 11.75 rotor upgrade with 11X3 rear drums, power booster, braided lines, but am contemplating going 13 inch front, 2 piston calipers and 11 inch rear, single pistons for a 4 wheel disc upgrade and less unsprung weight 10,. good seatbelts and seating. the car WILL be faster if the driver is not flopping all over the place.
im running down mini-coopers and CRX's with my duster on the autocross course, and have driven it over 1000 miles in the last month with no complaints about the livibility of the suspension or brakes on the street.
hipe that helps Michael
That is a great low budget handling approach. But I wouldn't run Addco front sway bars on a 66-69 B-body or 64-72 A-body. You end up buying extra brackets to get them to mount nicely.
That is almost identical to what I ran in my Barracuda from 1993 to 2010.
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Re: Pro touring setups- what do you guys use??
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I would go with the Hotchkis TVS or Riley Motorsports Alterkation with a 4 link rear that RMS also makes.
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Re: Pro touring setups- what do you guys use??
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I will probably put on some stock later a body or e body brakes at first and then eventually will do a viper brake swap! The other thing I noticed is that I read an article about an XV motorsports 68 charger. They said that they used some special rear leaf springs that are softer than stock but they actually help the b bodys grip better than any stock or heavy duty spring. Do you guys agree with this? I was looking to do at least a 2 inch drop in the rear and can't find anything for them.
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Re: Pro touring setups- what do you guys use??
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