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04-19-2018, 08:25 PM | #1 |
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unequal four link for super stocker
Some years ago 3rd gen Camaros and Firebirds were built with short upper four-link bars. Ed Quay and others offered frame rails and other hardware to product those builds.
Question; is there any downside to the short upper bar? Does that design react/operate the same as an equal length four link? If would be for a small block powered package with an ET range of 9.50's
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04-19-2018, 09:49 PM | #2 |
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Re: unequal four link for super stocker
They tend to be on the violent side when used with a manual transmission or a transbrake, and a bit less friendly to tune. Footbrake cars that don't have a ton of torque or a lot of gear seem to work well.
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Re: unequal four link for super stocker
Ed Quay built my Monte back in 85 with short upper bars. After a lot of playing with it then having a chance to play with equal 4 link bar car I found that any changes to short upper bar seemed like drastic large swings even though you moved 1 hole or changed ride height. The equal bar car when making the same changed seemed more tune able. The Monte worked well but maybe I didn't have enough knowledge back then to figure out little changes.
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Re: unequal four link for super stocker
We eventually had Kronenbitter cut out our short bar and converted it to long bar. Like the other guys said, short bars are touchy. For a bracket car that never changes anything,they would be dandy. Really no problem hooking them. But changes in ride height along with changes in tire diameter, makes a perfect acting car act stupid. You cant throw 150 lbs ( sometimes more), in and out of them, and not have issues....
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Re: unequal four link for super stocker
Larry,
The bars on my car are: Top - 20" C-C Bottom 22: C-C The 4 link bracket on the rear end has an 8 deg forward tilt off of vertical for the top mount. You will probably have better luck with that than just a vertical on center rear end bracket. My car liked it even though it shortened the top bar. Call me if you want the mount distance off the C/L of the housing and bar angles.
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Re: unequal four link for super stocker
Larry,
Trying to figure out how to adjust our suspension, we found this spreadsheet on the Internet which helped us understand why our car was reacting as it did. It answered a lot of our questions and allowed us to get our car to work pretty good. This same information is available in some of the chassis setup books available. http://www.patooyee.com/calculators/4BarLinkV3.0c.xls
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