Mike, you summed up a lot of my thoughts. It looks great in pictures until you start to look more closely, which I did just a little while ago. From the very first glance at it I didn't like the UCA angle and my visual guesstimate of the scrub radius didn't look too hot-- heck, my immediate thoughts were "worse than stock." I also didn't like the idea of a 4-link out back-- when I saw rod ends everywhere I immediately thought "factory A-body bind-o-matic" C4L.
I was hoping, just hoping, that being a racing chassis fab shop they would have put *real* geometry into the frame/suspension, but I was worried when they had the frame listed under "street rod" on their webpage-- because when I hear street rod I immediately think beautiful but not very functional/performance oriented. Looks like this may be another classic case of that.
Again, it looks great, but it appears to have "missed the mark" when it comes to performance.
Guess I'll stick with modding the spare factory frame I have, because I can do it right... and probably cheaper.
Troy
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1969 Chevelle
Old setup: Procharged/intercooled/EFI 353 SBC, TKO, ATS/SPC/Global West suspension, C6 brakes & hydroboost.
In progress: LS2, 3.0 Whipple, T56 Magnum, torque arm & watts link, Wilwood Aero6/4 brakes, Mk60 ABS, Vaporworx, floater 9" rear, etc.
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