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Has anyone here added a Watts linkage to your rear end for tighter handling?
It seems fairly easy to weld a pivot to the diff housing and attach the ends to the rear subframe.
Just curious about the outcome, good/bad. Is it an improvement worth applying to a mild resto-mod highway cruiser?
-Art
It's a bit more involved than simply welding on brackets as you need to calculate roll center locations and arm arc movements, or figure adjustable points in to those locations to enable change.
IMO, it's a bit more work than necessary for just a cruiser and short of a race application where the adjustability is needed for tuning, overkill for the street. Improved leafs and shocks will yield greater results for the dollars spent, fab involved, and results you get for a street car.
I agree. Overkill and something with little or no gain in regular street driving. And I really bet it would translate more road noise and vibration into the car.
BUT you can see my rear end moving about 1/2" or so sideways in this video. We're doing about 60-90 mph sliding around some of those curves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vTT--mGlpTY&vq=large
Not to say if running a Watts Link would 110% eliminate movement. Things move. Heck the whole chassis flexes.
Last edited by autoxcuda; 05/16/11 12:07 AM.
