fool on the hill
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Right. I've got a '86 Longbed Dodge pickup we've spent about three years working on the suspension. I've made my own control arms, have custom wound coils up front, nitrogen shocks, and Dodge Viper sway bar up front. I moved the front spring hangers up on the chassis and put new spring pads on the rear housing to get my pinion angle correct. Currently the rear has a sway bar on it as well, but I will be removing that in lieu of running dual shocks on each side, whch the guys who SCCA race their trucks tells me is a better option than a sway bar.
When I'm done with it, my goal is to be able to take an average new Corvette, with an average driver, and be able to humiliate the 'Vette on a twisty country road. I've gotten the truck to where on a specific corner, where it would almost scare you to go through it at 45 mph, you can take it flat out at over 85 mph, and I'm not done yet. When finished, it wil have a 408 stroker with a supercharger.
The little Arrow pickup; however, simply doesn't have the structure to push the suspension that hard, and I'm not interested in re-engineering it. I want a decent sway bar up front, with beefier coils, and probably go dual shocks in the rear, and that's it. I just want it to ride nice with the V-8 while I make some 5.0 owners go home talking to themselves.