I was wondering if anyone here has ever lowered a J-Body Cordoba? I have a 1982, and thought it might be neat to do something different with it. I couldn't find anything online about lowering kits for the car.

Someone help me if I am wrong on the J-body but do they have the torsion bar like the 75-79 dobas
I thought you could crack on the torsion bar.

AB

only thing you could do is crank down the T bars and put blocks in the back but your handling will suffer from the reduced spring rate from the torsion bars after you lower them

I was thinking about just cranking on the t-bars for the front, I'm not too worried about the handling of the car, if I lower it, it wouldn't be for performance... I want to do a "rat rod" type car with it.

With the back, would blocks be the only option?

Spring rates are built into the spring, short of physically modifying the spring you will not change the rate.

What you will do is lessen the preload and you will hit the bump stops more often. Fatman Fabrication makes a drop spindle that will fit this application.

http://www.fatmanfab.com/catalogpage.php?page=17

Very last part on the page is the one that fits your application.

Thanks for the link!

is the blocks in the rear an alternative to the shackle kits ?

Be hard to lower a car with a shackle kit. There isn't much room to drop it, any less clearance and you will hit the frame with the spring. Shackle kits ae usually used to raise the rear, another bad idea along with blocks to lower it.

If you want to lower the rear you'd be better off raising the front spring mount up. On many Mopar you can swap the mounts side for side and flip them over to lower the car, you may have to oval the mounting holes a bit.

Sorry for the confusion, what's the other alternative to raising the rear besides the shackle kit

I wouldnt hack it up thats for sure.

Why do you want to raise the back? Going off road?

Raising the height of the rear end above the springs. Not raising the rear end up.

re-arched springs, or stiffer ones--the standard height 5 leaf HD springs raised the back end of my M body about 1-1.5" over my well worn stock 4 leaf springs.

1981 Mirada. I cranked down the bars and put in the solid mounts in the front. I put an 8 3/4 in and dumped the iso mounts in the back. I had 2 inch blocks in the back for a little while, too close to the stops. I ended up with 1 inch blocks. I had cop car wheels with a 65 series tire that was shorter than original. I can't remember the size.

10 yrs ago I added a shackle kit to the B-body Cordoba due to the sag, I knew at the time the shackle kits wasn't that safe, is my best bet now to get a new leaf spring set

AB

there was an article in Mopar Muscle DEC 1993 they did a J-body doba a white one, with 360/727 8¾ where they had done lowering. Anyone see that article ?

Assignment "J" Project Chrysler Cordoba

you can always do an axle under leaf spring conversion on the rear.

It will get you about 3.5" of lift, and the ride doesnt change much.

here is a Fury Sport with the axle flip.