[philofab]

Most of the suspention will be fabricated. I want to use crown vic spindles + brakes but I will build the upper and lower control arms. I have a jig for building a-arms (I normally use it for M2 stuff), my uppers will attach the stock location and the lowers will be attached to my own tubular x-member. I plan on using a coilover shock on the front.

The rear is very much like a center drive truck arm setup except the enclosed driveline. This is the reason I have not pulled the stock engine/trans out yet... no way to keep it a roller because the trans locates the rear end. I have been told the V8 ramblers of my year had leaf springs, never seen one though. The car actually runs good but I hated driving it because the suspention is so spacey. The little six has had the car up to about 110 mph but it felt as if I was driving a hovercraft.

The rear will be a torque arm setup like radramblers & third gen camaros. I will use a panhard bar in the rear and possibly upgrade it later to a watts link if I can get the roll center low enough. I will use a seperate shock / coil setup in the rear like the factory did.

I'll post an update tonight or in the morning showing status on my rearend narrowing.