Thanks guys, and I just realized how rude I was. I didn't mention how nice that Road Runner is, one very, very sweet looking car. These things are all so big, when you see one really nice like that one, wearing black paint, it is really hard not to fall in love with them.
The front suspension on the GTXtreme car will be our version of the replacement front suspension. There are a LOT of folks out there converting the later Corvette spindles to the early cars, and that is a pretty darned good approach overall. However, packaging the new spindle around an old motor, is very tough to do and you need to make some sacrifices in order to make it all work. Rather than go down that path, we designed our own spindle, it is similar in the geometry to the Corvette piece, but there are some important differences that make packaging the rest of the supension a lot easier. In addition, it is brutally tough, we are using the large Chrysler screw in ball joints, and very large wheel bearings (it's not a sealed bearing pack like the C5 stuff, it is a traditional timken stack with readily available bearings when service comes around, nothing proprietary). The rest of the suspension geoemtry and components will all be our custom stuff as well, cro-mo tubular control arms, etc. This same basic setup will be the basis for the other front stuff that we will be offering in the future as well, plans are to adapt it to a very large number of muscle cars, just as we have (and are continuing to do) for the rear suspension. Of course in the case of the Mopars, it'll all be held together with a tubular steel "k member" setup that bolts in where the old one used to reside. There will be some welding required for the upper control arm mount, which also incorporates the upper shock mount. Torsion bars will be eliminated, it'll be coil-over shocks instead. All of the stuff is basically engineered/designed already, it's a matter of building it up and testing, but we have a LOT on our plate right now so it's proving difficult to finish off the prototype. We are very excited, and have extremely high expectations for the setup. It looks like we'll be developing the rear 3-Link kit for the E body cars here in a short while too, which is also exciting.
I agree with Scott, we need more Mopars in here!
Mark
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