suicide front end STEERING BOX CHOICE

Looking at going with a suicide front end ... Can you go cross steer and have a suicide front end ... I see a conflict with the drag link and the leaf spring...

Pictures please ..

or do i have to go cowl steering

Oh YA i am going with split wishbones.....

 

I used a vega box on this one...

I put the draglink and tierod behind the spring... if you were planning on running the tierod in front, you'd probably have issues with cross steering.

not sure if this is what you were looking for, but its what I did on this car.

 

I used a new Corvair box from Flaming River, steel case

 

hey dude this what i did i got 40 ford spindals and mounted them with the backwards with the steering arms towards the front of the car and installed a steering rod across the front the use a fortys or fiftys style steering box and build a bracket to mount on the two top bolts if you have the ability to suicide a front end you should be able to handle that and its a cool look let me know if you have any questions

steering box from f1 trucks work good and are cheap to

good luck ****er

 

is there anyway to run the vega box in a cross steering set-up with suicide front end and split bones? anyone have better pics. it appears to me it would interfere with the bones.

 

Frankenshine runs cross steer.




Running the Tie Rod on front looks like Hell.
Spend the time to do it right.

 

Just helped a friend figure out the same thing. With a 4" dropped axle and 34 wishbones (split). Turn the wisbone upside down and then piecut to get your caster right, this buys about a half inch on the bottom of the wishbone. Then get a set of deep drop 35-48 steering arms from magnum and run the tie rod ends in from the bottom of the arm. Now the tie rod is under the wishbones you can set up your drag link as normal. You can angle the vega box mount (keep your draglink level with the tie rod) to keep the big ugly pitman arm nut up off of the ground and you will be golden. Panhard bar is a must! I don't have any pics but I am sure someone else has done this. Good luck!

I almost forgot, 16" wheels are an absolute necessity when running a setup like this to maintain scrub line clearance.