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Old 05-30-2006, 08:11 AM
Mean 69 Mean 69 is offline
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Poorman, yes, I/we do manufacture suspensions systems. Our website is under construction, probably about 40% complete and will have a lot of great info in it, not all that I'd like, but more than most in terms of specifics to our setups(s). I can't commit to a specific timeframe to complete the early Nova kits, the next rear kit we will be doing is the E-Body Mopar, and that will begin in the next few weeks (estimated completion mid-late Summer for that one). Thereafter we will have the engineering capacity to knock out another configuration, the next in line are the early Nova cars (like yours) and also the early Mustang (I have a 65 FB in the shop just waiting patiently for her turn). The interesting thing is that the Novas and Mustangs are amazingly similar, there is no question that some "borrowing" of ideas was at hand between Ford and Chevy back in the day. Good thing is that it will make the development of both of the suspension solutions far easier.

We are also concurrently working on our front suspension system, I spent all weekend in the shop prototyping on my 70 Camaro, and the pieces are really starting to fall into place. Our solution won't be a Mustang II derived setup, nor a "take a bunch of pieces from a wrecked Corvette and build a frame around them" solution, it is completely custom in virtually every detail. Mind you, the Corvette/Mustang based systems aren't necessarily bad, we studied them too, but when it came down to it, we just could not meet our design requirements necessary to get the performance we are after using these parts as donor parts: too many compromises. As with everything we seek to do, we have very high expectations and are pretty certain that this will knock people's socks off. Here again, once the building blocks are established (i.e. proprietary custom components), developing car specific setups will go much faster. You need to pay the Piper at some point, we're paying him now.

That was long-winded and non-committal, but it is the truth; "we're working on it."

Mark
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