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Re: Chopped 57 Chrysler
[Re: GregCon]
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09/16/10 05:00 PM
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Agreed! More pix here: http://public.fotki.com/Rikster/11_car_p...an_57_chrysler/The Chrysler was give a two-page feature in the March 1964 issue of Rod & Custom magazine. When I can talk my wife into clearing her pile of stuff off our scanner, I'll see if I can scan the two pages. Edit: Well, I just took another look at the pix in the link. First one is a scan of the March 1964 R&C two-page feature. Duh. . . .
Last edited by 413coronet; 09/16/10 06:33 PM.
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Re: Chopped 57 Chrysler
[Re: GregCon]
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09/16/10 07:31 PM
09/16/10 07:31 PM
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I would like to know the old school way he lowered the car?
Do you have the link to the HAMB thread?
Maybe its on there.
So the bartender says to the horse " Gee, Why the long face?"
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Re: Chopped 57 Chrysler
[Re: GregCon]
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09/16/10 10:03 PM
09/16/10 10:03 PM
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That car is liquid nasty-ness.
...There's some more links over there too.
...I messed up many yrs ago when I passed on a 57 300C for 4,000. It was a little ruffer then what I hoped. Mistake!
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Re: Chopped 57 Chrysler
[Re: GregCon]
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09/17/10 12:30 PM
09/17/10 12:30 PM
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FYI, the Chrysler got an updated 2-page feature in the December 1991 issue of Rod & Custom with then-current pix.
No info about how it was lowered, though.
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Re: Chopped 57 Chrysler
[Re: GregCon]
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09/22/10 08:05 AM
09/22/10 08:05 AM
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No offense but the lowering blocks are kinda generic and you don't have adequate clearance between the frame rail and the top of the axle tube.
None taken 
I speak from experience when I say the axle-tube isn't the problem when lowering it this way (is there any other way without going to an independent rearsuspension?).
The main problem is the rear axle snubber which is in very close to full contact with the body. This causes you to feel almost every bump in the road.
If you remove the snubber, then the driveshaft will hit the body when accelerating or on good bumps.
The axle tubes only hit the framerail rubbers when cornering hard.
To do a 'good' lowering, the driveshaft tunnel's sheetmetal should be cut open and made higher with a fillerplate.
Stiffer leafsprings are usually a great help aswell after a car has been lowered.
I still plan on adding a couple of leafs on the '57 'cause it bottoms out to easily to my taste.
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Re: Chopped 57 Chrysler
[Re: BigBlockMopar]
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09/22/10 10:32 AM
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No offense but the lowering blocks are kinda generic and you don't have adequate clearance between the frame rail and the top of the axle tube.
None taken
I speak from experience when I say the axle-tube isn't the problem when lowering it this way (is there any other way without going to an independent rearsuspension?).
The main problem is the rear axle snubber which is in very close to full contact with the body. This causes you to feel almost every bump in the road.
If you remove the snubber, then the driveshaft will hit the body when accelerating or on good bumps.
The axle tubes only hit the framerail rubbers when cornering hard.
To do a 'good' lowering, the driveshaft tunnel's sheetmetal should be cut open and made higher with a fillerplate.
Stiffer leafsprings are usually a great help aswell after a car has been lowered.
I still plan on adding a couple of leafs on the '57 'cause it bottoms out to easily to my taste.
could you just lower it 2"'s instead of 3?
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