Truck style rear suspension kits in Car Craft - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

Low69CST · 12-29-2002, 11:42 AM

I got my new car craft in the other day and one of the articles is about a company making a kit to install our truck style rear suspension in a chevelle. The article calls it the ultimate suspesion. The trailing arms are modified to accept a different tracking arm. Bolts directly to one of the trailing arms then a bracket attched to the frame. Good article, you may want to check it out.

crazy longhorn · 12-29-2002, 11:48 AM

Jan issue of Car Craft?

SCOTI · 12-29-2002, 01:26 PM

Or check out the website 'Hotrodstohell'.com. From what I've seen the geometry of these truck set-ups @ stock height isn't very good for cornering, but bring the center of gravity down & things get alot better. The adjustable panhard bar is trick.

Longhorn Man · 12-29-2002, 04:06 PM

Yeah, i saw that too. Did you see the 68 GMC and the 67 Chevy truck they showed?
One of us needs to write them a letter...I know Sr Ed King has a 71 or 72, and he used to have a 67 short step that was awsome.

jays68yak · 01-05-2003, 11:52 PM

Whats the name of the company that makes this kit? I left me car craft mag at my parents and I just wanted to read up on it.

jays68yak · 01-06-2003, 12:03 AM

nm its www.hotrodstohell.net.

Blazer1970 · 01-06-2003, 08:33 AM

The interesting part in the Car Craft article is that they say that this is the type of suspension that has been used in NASCAR ever since the early sixties when it first came out in trucks (and still is?). There is even a rumor that they started using this trailing arm type of suspension in the pickup trucks so that they could use it in NASCAR.

12-29-2002, 11:42 AM	#1
Low69CST Registered User Join Date: May 2000 Location: Frankfort, Kentucky, USA Posts: 2,163	Truck style rear suspension kits in Car Craft I got my new car craft in the other day and one of the articles is about a company making a kit to install our truck style rear suspension in a chevelle. The article calls it the ultimate suspesion. The trailing arms are modified to accept a different tracking arm. Bolts directly to one of the trailing arms then a bracket attched to the frame. Good article, you may want to check it out. __________________ '69 CST Short fleetside Lowered, 400 small block, 700R4, 4 wheel disc brakes, front sway bar & rear camaro sway bar (in progress) '87 V10 4x4 Short Fleetside Quad Suspension and Dual Tanks

12-29-2002, 11:48 AM	#2
crazy longhorn Fabricate till you "puke" Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ill Posts: 9,402	Jan issue of Car Craft? __________________ 69 longhorn,4" chop,3/5 drop, 1/2 ton suspension/disc brakes,1 1/2" body drop,steel tilt clip, 5.3/Edelbrock rpm intake/600 carb, Hooker streetrod shorties,2 1/2" exhaust/ H pipe/50's Flows , 6 spd Richmond trans,12 bolt/ 3.40 gears....

12-29-2002, 01:26 PM	#3
SCOTI Registered User Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: DALLAS,TX Posts: 22,133	Or check out the website 'Hotrodstohell'.com. From what I've seen the geometry of these truck set-ups @ stock height isn't very good for cornering, but bring the center of gravity down & things get alot better. The adjustable panhard bar is trick. __________________ 67SWB-B.B.RetroRod 64SWB-Recycle 89CCDually-Driver/Tow Truck 99CCSWB Driver All Fleetsides @rattlecankustoms in IG Building a small, high rpm engine with the perfect bore, stroke and rod ratio is very impressive. It's like a highly skilled Morrocan sword fighter with a Damascus Steel Scimitar..... *Cubic inches is like Indiana Jones with a cheap pistol.*

01-05-2003, 11:52 PM	#5
jays68yak Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Gilroy, CA Posts: 1,454	Whats the name of the company that makes this kit? I left me car craft mag at my parents and I just wanted to read up on it. __________________ 1969 Chevy Project SWB Fleet, 20s, 5.3, t56, in the weeds. 1970 Chevy Truck cab on a 1979 Jimmy frame-8.1 liter 496 bbc/sm465/np203-jeds doubler-np205/d60/14bff Welded/42 tsls on recentered H1s 1998 Chevy Crew Cab K3500 SAS'd with hpd60, links and swayaway coilovers. 8.1l vortec DD/towrig "I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. "

01-06-2003, 12:03 AM	#6
jays68yak Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Gilroy, CA Posts: 1,454	nm its www.hotrodstohell.net. __________________ 1969 Chevy Project SWB Fleet, 20s, 5.3, t56, in the weeds. 1970 Chevy Truck cab on a 1979 Jimmy frame-8.1 liter 496 bbc/sm465/np203-jeds doubler-np205/d60/14bff Welded/42 tsls on recentered H1s 1998 Chevy Crew Cab K3500 SAS'd with hpd60, links and swayaway coilovers. 8.1l vortec DD/towrig "I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. "

12-29-2002, 04:06 PM	#4
Longhorn Man its all about the +6 inches Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Hilliard Ohio Posts: 2,690	Yeah, i saw that too. Did you see the 68 GMC and the 67 Chevy truck they showed? One of us needs to write them a letter...I know Sr Ed King has a 71 or 72, and he used to have a 67 short step that was awsome.

01-06-2003, 08:33 AM	#7
Blazer1970 Registered User Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Old Mission, MI, USA Posts: 2,507	The interesting part in the Car Craft article is that they say that this is the type of suspension that has been used in NASCAR ever since the early sixties when it first came out in trucks (and still is?). There is even a rumor that they started using this trailing arm type of suspension in the pickup trucks so that they could use it in NASCAR. __________________ Tim

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