Coilovers?

I'll start off by saying how neat his place is. I have been on here for a few weeks mostly looking around and reading things as much as I can. I have thrown in the occasional reply to a post here or there.

I did a search for coilovers and all of what I read was regarding rear coilovers. I will keep looking but there are about 15 pages of results for coilovers. Is it not right to put coilovers on the front of, say, a 34 ford truck? I am just trying to work out some things and make some decisions. I know I have seen some deuces with coilovers on the front but I don't know if that is exactly traditional. I have the full drivetrain and suspension at my house from a 33 ford sedan that we just modified for a customer and I'm not sure yet if he wants anything back. If I can, I'll just use all that to get my truck on the road that much faster, if not, I need to have a contingency plan.

So there's the question: Are front coilovers traditional or not?

Thanks.

Ryan

 

no...

 

if you want coilovers on front put on front this is hot rodding not do as i say. can you imagine if we all had the same belly ****ons . pretty boring

 

Ok heres the deal.. are you trying to do this for ride quality? If so then dont.. Use a tranverse leaf with a traditional axle and it will ride nice.. **** the independant and coilover guys.. The ride problem with the early cars is in the rear.. Short wheel base and the wrong spring(s) coilovers etc += ****. Ive been building **** for a long time and the best risding car i ever had was a 29 model a with a mordrop axle and a stock spring with a few leafs removed and a reversed eye main leaf. The read consisted fo my own coil mounts and speedway motors coil springs (for a t bucket) and my own shock mounts..
Dave
ps: traditional =NO

 

traditional, no. do they give you an amazing ride, no. do they work well aside if properly installed, yes. your shoice it depends on what direction you want to go with the build. dont really need them in the front unless you race and want good weight transfer or you have a really heavy car.

 

If your coilover car rode rough, you just over sprung it.

Since they can mount closer to the wheel than the typical leaf spring set-up, the leverage ratio isn't as high, so you need a proportionally softer spring.

Sure, if you put a 350 lb/in spring on the front of a 2600 lb hot rod, it's gonna ride like a buck board. Use a 225-250 lb/in spring and you're ride will be much closer to stock. That's one nice thing about the coil over set-up, as you can get pretty much any spring rate you like, hell, you can even cut and stack springs if you want a rate softer than they make stock.

All it takes is a little engineering.

I would not expect coilovers to be considered traditional though.

 

I think coilovers should only be used on fendered cars to hide them.

 

Right on. That's what I wanted to know. I am just trying to hash some things out and have a few different plans to choose between. And now I know that if I want to build it to be traditional then I won't put them on. If I decide to go with them I will know not to say that it is a traditional style truck. Thanks for the input.