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Old 10-06-2017, 07:11 PM   #5
mr48chev
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Re: triangular four link & 72 firebird sub frame on a 56 chevy truck

As much as I respect your work Dave, that steering setup looks like it might have a lot of bind up built into it.
The cost of the rack alone would pay for the Industrial Chassis crossmember and refreshed Dakota donor pieces with manual or power rack and the brakes and shocks with change left over. I Can't find a viable link for Kimbridge but I see well over 1K in that front end plus another 1400 for the unisteer plus another 2 or 3 hundred for the G body donor pieces.
Sorry but I see far too many $$$ in that for most guys when there is a simpler way.

On welding on a Subframe, I have done it twice with great results in both situations. First on my 48 and then on my 51 Merc coupe. Both would run down the big long roads at 80 straight as an arrow and drove great around town and rode great. That said it is 70s/80s hot rod technology from when we didn't have much else to work with. Add to that on most AD or TF trucks you are going to have to do some serious trimming on the inner fenders, change the radiator support and maybe even run a different style of radiator to make them work . Then you run into that thing of getting the sheet metal to line up and figuring out how the hay you are going to mount the front bumper.

On that 4th gen Camaro Rear, even the Camaro boys aren't found of them. They are as wide as a mid 70's C10 rear and on most rigs the tires will be outside the rear wheels in a redneck 4x4 fashion unless you run some rather ugly positive offset wheels.
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