Hot Rods Time for...Guess that suspension!

Hello everyone, customer just dropped this off and we are all betting on whats it is. The HAMB has settled a lot of "discussions" in the shop before, so away we go...HA ...HA

 

Wow... that's weird lookin'!

 

Dangerous!,a wreck looking for a place to happen!

Cut it out and start over,. HRP

 

Probably European design

 

Well, that's the shops opinion already...HA Plus he wants a blown big block! Just looking at those 1/2 inch OD uppers is scary enough

 

I bet someones missing a cheap swingset and a couple of pogo sticks.

 

Thats ah...OK, I know....is just spindly looking and very scary.

Cliff Ramsdell

 

Holy ****, blown big block. Might as well put a coffin on there for a body, just to save a step later.

Cliff Ramsdell

 

R&P looks like something from a Fiat. Rest may be also.

 

it is probably not but at first glance i thought of atv front end

 

Me too! Thought it liked pretty atv like


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It looks like some kind of stock spindle turned upside down and swapped side to side and the rest look like home made parts.

I would say its time to start all over and just get rid of all of it.

 

Something from an ultra-lite drag car? Gary

 

As previously stated, this set up is junk and will never handle the blown big block this customer has to have! We just bench race about **** and are trying to find the origin of this kooky at best front suspension.

 

I seem to remember something like this from a company called Maas, or something similar. Opel components if I remember correctly. They had one version that used the stock Opel stamped arms and lower cross spring, then this one that was their custom tubular unit.

 

I'll be the odd man out here, and say I kinda like it. Chrome moly? What is it installed on now, a T-Bucket?

 

I don't know what the parts came from . I say it was meant for a light VW type buggy as it looks to have some long suspension travel.

 

HA Plus he wants a blown big block!

 

That belongs in the s**** bin, after you cut it up, so no other fool uses it.

 

The geometrics of the thing may be fine, but the heft isn't there. I'm always interested in seeing different designs and articulating them in my brain. This one may just work OK. Would probably be fine in a very light car (Anglia?) with a small 4 above it.

 

Remove the tie rod ends, thread a rope through the holes and get your buddies to push you around in the car park after some brews.

 

Probably a Lotus prototype and worth more than you and your ten best friends! That being said, I wouldn't put a blown big block above it.

 

Reminds me of Mustang II design, I also have issue with strength but it unknown what it is made of.
I have seen drag cars with 3/8" heims on the four bar front and Hose clamps holding engines in fuel cars so...............

 

Much like playing "what did I have for lunch?"

I could poop in a box and you could guess tacos..... but either way, in the box, and on that frame is just poop.

Might work fine or a 4banger, or ATV motor. Blown big block, I'll p***.

 

I've seen circle track stuff run that single arm lower.

 

It does look like a variation of a Mustang II with that single lower arm and lower arm strut. Probably work OK if it was built of heavier components.

 

A homemade version of a dirt late model suspension.

 

70s dune buggy . vw powered. not good.

 

Whoa! Wait a second guys. That isn't necessarily s****. I could use some of those components on a small cargo trailer I have in mind for pulling behind my T. (about the size of a large trailer for behind a motorcycle.) But then, I don't plan on hauling around a running fat block in it, either.

Roger