IFS for 1950 Buick ?

[buick50]

Hello everyone.

I own a 1950 Buick Super Convertible that Im going to strart building next month. Is my first Hot Rod project. Im going to strat building the Chassis and I will like to Addapt an Individual Front Suspension in that car, but I really have no experience at all, I see that there are many IFS fabricators, but wich one to choose? FAT MAN Fabrications has a compleete IFS for my car are they a good choise? What thinks I should considere before buying any IFS?

What Ideas do you give me for the rear end?

thanks for all your comments and help

Alex

Guatemala City, Central America

[Bundy]

I built a 50 Buick sedan about 5years ago. I used the fatman kit, its based on a mustang 2, it went together very easy. I left the front sheetmetal on and removed the core support to gain enough room to install the cip, I was afraid I couldn't get the hood lined back up. For the rear suspension I made a set of truck arms that attacthed to the center of the frame right behind the trans. I also cut down a 96 Impala rear with disc brakes. The owner of the car at that time drove it about 10,000 miles without any problems. If you have anymore questions I might be able to help.

[buick50]

Originally Posted by Bundy

I built a 50 Buick sedan about 5years ago. I used the fatman kit, its based on a mustang 2, it went together very easy. I left the front sheetmetal on and removed the core support to gain enough room to install the cip, I was afraid I couldn't get the hood lined back up. For the rear suspension I made a set of truck arms that attacthed to the center of the frame right behind the trans. I also cut down a 96 Impala rear with disc brakes. The owner of the car at that time drove it about 10,000 miles without any problems. If you have anymore questions I might be able to help.

Do you have any pictures of your instalattion process? did you lined back up the hood? So you think FantMan is a good choice?

What about the aligment of the car?

thanks for the help

[buick50]

Hello Bundy, Today I call Fat Man Fabrication, they told me that they offer to me a compleete weld-in Mustang II frame stub kit, is like a compleete front clip, that means that I have to cut my front chassis and install the stub kit. Is that the way you go?

they told me that I need to use a compleete stub kit because of the geometry of the car.

thanks

[Teetoe_Jones]

Two words for you.

Art. Morrison.

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Tyler

[bret]

Fatman is definetly the way to go for that Buick. Not only does his stuff work nicely on that car, they are quite knowledgeable about that particular installation and will be very helpfull throughout the build.