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I think it would be hard to tell Gaetano. I don't know how your car compares to mine. The biggest difference is going to be ride. You can stiffen it up for the track and soften it up for the street. That's what I really like.
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Here is a finished one we did with a Fab 9






Here is a install on a 68 we used a 12 bolt and welded on brackets











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There is no doubt that 3 and 4 link stuff looks great, but if its not beating my track times I'm definitely not spending the money. I guess I'm gonna have to chase guys down with different set ups at timed events.

You know what they say, proofs in the pudding.
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There is no doubt that 3 and 4 link stuff looks great, but if its not beating my track times I'm definitely not spending the money. I guess I'm gonna have to chase guys down with different set ups at timed events.

You know what they say, proofs in the pudding.
A good set of GW Cat 5s are a good set up, just ride terrible as Todd mentioned. there is a slight advantage to a 3 / 4 / torque set up with additional articulation and less "action / reaction" like leaf springs have
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I think it would be hard to tell Gaetano. I don't know how your car compares to mine. The biggest difference is going to be ride. You can stiffen it up for the track and soften it up for the street. That's what I really like.
By the way, that was a great shot of you pulling your front wheel up, I have one of those shots from Thunderhill with my front wheel 2" off the ground. I'll have to dig up the evidence and load it into this lap top, LOL
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By the way, that was a great shot of you pulling your front wheel up, I have one of those shots from Thunderhill with my front wheel 2" off the ground. I'll have to dig up the evidence and load it into this lap top, LOL
Let's see it dude....
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Let's see it dude....
Hey Todd found it, this was at Thunderhill when I was first getting started. Still had the 17x8's up front on it back then


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Hey Todd found it, this was at Thunderhill when I was first getting started. Still had the 17x8's up front on it back then


Dude.... that's suspension bounce not a power pull! You're lifting the wrong wheel for a torque pull... that pulls the DRIVER front NOT the passenger front...

Check out Todd's driver front lift -- that's POWER and HOOKED UP....


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Dude.... that's suspension bounce not a power pull! You're lifting the wrong wheel for a torque pull... that pulls the DRIVER front NOT the passenger front...

Check out Todd's driver front lift -- that's POWER and HOOKED UP....


EEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
LOL, Yeah thats funny, a suspension bounce 25' away from the apex. Wonder how high I was after hitting the curb of the apex there, LMAO.

So you must mean that was my landing after the bounce, oh wait, maybe I hit a rock with the front right and then the rock shot out of the picture right when it was taken, ROFLMAO

By the way, that picture was taken in 2002 and the car and myself have progressed quite a bit since then. Looking forward to seeing you on the road course. I'll be at Buttonwillow the 28th, oh, also in June on the 5th and 6th, or you can find me at the Spectre341Challenge, come find me.
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Sorry -- but I had to point out that carrying your right front is FAR FAR different than pulling your left front...
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