Hotchkis Suspension Mopar Open House Report and Pictures

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Re: Hotchkis Suspension Mopar Open House Report and Pictures
« Reply #15 on: August 12, 2009 - 05:56:30 PM »
SWEET... Please tell us more I love all this tech talk :drool:











Its way over my head  :roflsmiley:

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Re: Hotchkis Suspension Mopar Open House Report and Pictures
« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2009 - 06:29:57 PM »
I'd sure like to get my hands on those strut rods.

I've actually been toying with the idea of creating a front strut mount made from a chevy upper ball joint and a tubular threaded rod. Their struts would save me the trouble.

Have you seen these from Total control? (it's a ford part but it wouldn't take much to cut and thread the tube on the control arm end to work on a mopar....) These are very nice parts (a buddy has them on his Falcon) Since they are owned by Chris Alston's Chassisworks, maybe they would be interested in producing some one-offs
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Re: Hotchkis Suspension Mopar Open House Report and Pictures
« Reply #17 on: August 12, 2009 - 06:34:27 PM »
So, in taking the anti-dive out of the front end they needed to alter the pivot mounting location on the upper A arm.  When they did this, did they also alter the length and put additional camber gain in the arm design?

Have you seen these from Total control? (it's a ford part but it wouldn't take much to cut and thread the tube on the control arm end to work on a mopar....) These are very nice parts (a buddy has them on his Falcon)

iIhaven't looked at those yet, but why not. I'm looking at putting a fox body mustang panhard bar under my Dodge.

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Re: Hotchkis Suspension Mopar Open House Report and Pictures
« Reply #18 on: August 13, 2009 - 04:30:02 AM »
So, in taking the anti-dive out of the front end they needed to alter the pivot mounting location on the upper A arm.  When they did this, did they also alter the length and put additional camber gain in the arm design?

I don't know for sure on the any change in length. If so, not much since you still have to get to the right alignment. I could see a slight camber gain by lowering the front A-arm inner pick-up point. But not a ton. The effective lowering would be about half the distance the front pick-up point moved down since the rear didn't move at all.


They explained purpose of moving the front arm of the upper A-arm down is to reduce bump steer. Yes, that reduces the anti dive some, but they told me it is not eliminated. A car setup from some handling has far less nose dive than the worst case senerio B-body 383 wagon, which share the same geometry.
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