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Re: Destruction of a 71 Cuda...
« Reply #15 on: November 05, 2013 - 04:56:07 PM »
I have a local guy that does all my front end alignments. He's a weekend racer with an 8 sec. door car that runs a similar 4 link setup. He also sets up other race cars, so I will most definitely have him setting up everything on this car....It's all greek to me   :clueless:
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Re: Destruction of a 71 Cuda...
« Reply #16 on: November 05, 2013 - 07:13:49 PM »
:stomp: :faint:

True. At some point we all probably hacked up a good car or two - I'm certainly guilty of doing that. But for the most part that was "back in the day" when the cars were plentiful, relatively cheap, and not too many people knew any better not to hack them up.

Today, 40+ years later, I thought that most of the cars that managed to survive relatively intact, would be in the hands of enthusiast who appreciated them for what they were and are. Now the nice suvivors are scarce, expensive and too valuable to hack up - unless of course you have have really deep pockets and like you said, "flat out don't care." :blah:

Now we have guys with more money than brains and don`t care about preserving a rare car, they just want something "cool" to go fast in and musclecars are once again cool. At least it wasn`t a numbers matching survivor car so it can be restored again.
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Re: Destruction of a 71 Cuda...
« Reply #17 on: November 06, 2013 - 09:51:51 AM »
HP2, I have to say regarding all your responses, you are like the voice of facts and logic.  Always a great answer and it's much appreciated.

You're like the Mr. Spock of Mopars!

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Re: Destruction of a 71 Cuda...
« Reply #18 on: November 06, 2013 - 10:01:34 AM »
It's better IF you actually know how to tune it.

I had a Hayabusa for a while and it had an infinitely adjustable suspension (spring preload, compression dampning, and rebound dampning) front and rear. Yeah I know it's a motorcycle, but with so much adjustability in the suspension it was easy to get lost on all the possible combinations of adjustments. It took a a lot of "one click at a time" adjusting until I finally got it sorted out for what seemed like the best setup for my riding style.

Makes a lot of sense what you said.  Great for those who know what to do with it. 
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Re: Destruction of a 71 Cuda...
« Reply #19 on: November 13, 2013 - 04:31:41 PM »
Coming right along...Have most of the big stuff back in, just need to sort out the steering column and some electrical....
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