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08-14-2008, 05:54 PM
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Lighten the Frontend?
I have a local guy wanting to lighten his front suspension on his 68. It is a race only truck and already has disc. He' asked me about tubular a-arms,ect.,but I told him I had no experience with such. Any suggestions?
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08-14-2008, 10:10 PM
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Re: Lighten the Frontend?
Let me know when you get it figured out cause i need to drop a couple of hundreds of pounds
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08-14-2008, 10:22 PM
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Re: Lighten the Frontend?
Tubular A-arms will lose about 40-50lbs Check with Performance Online or Classic Perform. If you do not mind spending about $800-1000 which is the easiest route to take off the most weight go with a glass front end.
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08-15-2008, 09:41 AM
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Re: Lighten the Frontend?
The weight thing is as much a budget thing as anything else. For around $4k to $5k you can slap a light weight glass front end on something like this
  easy way to loose about 1000 pounds off the nose
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08-15-2008, 06:52 PM
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Re: Lighten the Frontend?
The fatmans setups will save somewhere around 200
Tom
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08-15-2008, 11:51 PM
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Re: Lighten the Frontend?
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