Originally Posted by MoonshadowRacing
Originally Posted by zipper06
Originally Posted by bigray
how do you load up the pics to this thread ???
Go here and sign up for an account, then it will ask you if you want to upload pics or movies. You have to have the oics stored to you computer, after you upload the pics save to libary, it will then give you severl codes to pick from, copy the image code and copy and paste the RJ and the pic will pop up.
On the vette subject, they look good but i'll guatentee they won't handle. When i first built my 56 T'bird with a blown 365" chevy in 1964, i put a straight monoleaf axle front end in it. The car in those days only ran 10.60/10.70 @131 MPH. It skated so bad i was off of it more than on it, over the winther it 1965 i built a VW front end and put it under the car. It immediately went almost 4 ths faster and as fast as 10.22@148 MPH and ran straigh as a bullit, and set a National record in Aug. 1966, with 10.50 X 30" M&H slicks.
Those cars are pretty but ill handlers down the qtr. mile.
Zip.
Maybe in 1964 but not today. I just finished a '66 Chevy II with a straight axle & it drove, handled and raced just fine. Actually it drove a whole lot better than the original '66 front suspension did (I know that's not saying a lot). The technology available today is very much advanced over what was available in 1964. I'm still considering a straight axle for my Corvette. :lol:
MoonshadowRacing, I completely agree, todays parts are a lot more suficated, with coil over shocks and rack and pinion steering, it's probably pretty easy to get one to handle, but my T'bird was built along the lines of the first vette posted, rear wheels outside the fenders, front end jacked up 10 to 14"'s and a single monoleaf cross spring, matter of fact an early ford axle, weight transfer was almost none existent. I ran that car in the days of Stone,Woods, and Cook, George Mongomery,etc, and none of the cars handled that good. The VW torsional front end i put under it, i drilled about a 100 1/2 holes in it to lighten it,it really transferred the weight and it would hook anywhere. I had a ladder bar rear end with air bags, no springs.
About your Vette, i saw the pics. you posted that's a beautiful, and i betting if you put a straight axle under it you won't be jacking it up in the front like the other vettes posted on this thread :lol:
Zip.