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Offline shoooter

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Trunk lid torsion bars?
« on: July 31, 2013 - 08:37:08 PM »
Are trunk lid torsion bars the same on a cuda and a challenger? Will all years cross?




Offline FY1Cuda

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Re: Trunk lid torsion bars?
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2013 - 08:48:41 PM »
Don't have the Cuda handy, but the brackets for the bars in a Challenger are 44 1/4" apart , so if the brackets in your Cuda are anywhere around that, they'll fit.

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Re: Trunk lid torsion bars?
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2013 - 08:51:40 PM »
I think the Cuda is a bit shorter. Some Challengers (not sure about Cudas) came with 2 bars and some came with only one bar. The single bar set up was a larger diameter.
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Re: Trunk lid torsion bars?
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2013 - 09:46:04 PM »
70's that I've seen before had 2 torsion bars.

Then in 71' they started switching to a one long trunk torsion bar.

However! I once had a picture of a 71' Cuda vert that had 2 torsion bars.

Did they use 2 torsion bars when either a Go wing or Luggage rack was optioned on the buildsheet ?
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