Looks great! The thread with the original build of your coupe was what gave me the confidence to start my coupe project!
You're a good man getting your son involved! That's the way it should be. Seems like I have to "bribe" mine to play with dad in the garage these days...
Great to see your car rolling, again. Having your son helping you is priceless. Keep up the good work. Lucky667
Oh man, that's real nice, now get out there and mow that lawn, No, really looking good bro, and a good looking kid to boot.
Chopperman, thanks for the pics, they help cleanse my brain after the pics of those fugly diesels on that other thread today! One question: I've been thinking about the exact same rear susp. setup for my coupe, yours looks really well done. With the top and bottom bars being unequal length, would it cause unwanted rear end angles as the suspension travels? Any reason for mounting the shocks vertically instead of slightly tipped inward? (not that it matters) Thanks, Gary
If you search my username and look at my sedan build, you will see pics of this exact rear suspension with an angle finder on the pinion at full droop and full compression with no shocks and the angles didn't change enough to move the needle. I went with the shocks mounted vertical cause the look cool like that. I made several mounting posistions for them on the sedan and found they worked just fine vertical so, I didn't build the extra mounts on this car. Plus the bottoms are already inboarded as far as they should go, so any more inboarding up top and it would start flippy floppying side to sie. If that makes sense I have 3 or 4 sets of springs if I want to adjust for weight.
damm chopperman ! ! I was building plastic models when i was your age ! ! ya musta cut alot of school to get that roller done ? Good job !
Very nice... The upper front 4-bar mounts must be heim joints? Just asking, since I'm used to seeing them mounted vertically instead of horizontally. Malcolm
Yup - makes for an easy instal when you mount them vertically. Just need to use high misalignment spacers to get the spaceing correct.
Thanks, that makes perfect sense. I painted a tubbed truck once, the owner moved the leaf springs inboard of the frame, said it handled worse on corners because of that same reason you talked about. Basically, the body can "pivot" side-to-side on top of the ch***is if the springs are too close. He fixed it with a big sway bar. Also, it's good to know the pinion angle changes aren't affected too much throughout the travel arc. Besides, it's not like we're going to be taking these cars off-road....at least we hope not!
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