Projects Root's '64 Cyclone Build

Good to see the little car again. Fantastic workmanship as always. So, you can heal an entire broken elbow faster than getting chrome work back? Yep, that's about right...

Keep up the good work.

-Abone.

 

these are double adjustables and 400 lb/in springs. I have very little preload into the springs right now and it sits pretty level. I have at least another 500# or so (without me) to stick on this car so between that and settling it’ll need a few inches of adjustment.

I did curve these shocks through their setting range and not overly impressed with the compression side of things as they lag pretty badly above about 150 mm/s as you tighten them up. They aren’t gas charged so is to be expected. They also squeak pretty loudly (what we call swish / audible noise in the shock world) as you tighten up the valves in he base ***emblies. In the future I might do a little work with tools at my disposal to improve them…



so I do have a set of Calvert 90/10 fronts and Rancho RS9000 rears to part with for this car.

 

I can’t remember what the brand is but I got a set that are for a 65 up Fairlane which means I need to change the lower spring saddles but they adjust between 60/40, 70/30 and 90/10 just old style drag shocks.
For the rear I bought the Calvert shocks, I’ve got them so they’re going on for now.

 

the Calvert shocks are made by Tenneco (Monroe). The Calvert rears are a RS9000 series shock with appropriate damping force curves and lengths for the application.

the fronts are just a std p***ive shock with no rebound valving - all rebound control (or lack there of) provided by the piston orifices.

 

I didn’t get the Calvert fronts I don’t care for using 10/90 shocks on the street, what I did get are adjustable by turning the rod to one of three settings. I have used this style of front shock before and they do work by simply loosening the top hardware and turning the rod then tightening everything back up. I did not buy these from Calvert . Back in the seventies I had a set on a Falcon and a set on my 68 Fairlane and they worked very well on the strip and decent on the street. I’m sure the 10/90 shocks that Calvert sells would work well on a car that runs 10s or slower in the quarter as will the ones that I have.