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Lifting the front past normal limits?

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So, uncommon question, I've searched and not found anything.
Has anybody raised the front up a lot? I'm thinking gasser stance, Roadkill mentality of taking muscle cars offroad etc. I've only ever worked with a-body suspension and that was lowering with heavy torsion bars in a road-race setup. I bought a crappy '73 coronet that somebody was building for the Gambler 500 and want to go with the idea of the offroad muscle car that can bomb down gravel fire roads and camp in remote areas.
 
No such thing as a "crappy Coronet". Regardless of year. Have some respect dude.
The easiest way is to crank the torsion bars way up. I don't know that it will get you to "gasser stance" for whatever that means.
Pray the bars don't explode on the first big hit you take on the front end if wheeling it.
May your Coronet's soul rest in peace.
 
Buy a truck. It is also a stupid idea to race down gravel fire roads. But this whole idea sounds kind of stupid to me.
 
streetpirate said:
So, uncommon question, I've searched and not found anything.
Has anybody raised the front up a lot? I'm thinking gasser stance, Roadkill mentality of taking muscle cars offroad etc. I've only ever worked with a-body suspension and that was lowering with heavy torsion bars in a road-race setup. I bought a crappy '73 coronet that somebody was building for the Gambler 500 and want to go with the idea of the offroad muscle car that can bomb down gravel fire roads and camp in remote areas.
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This past August I Jumped into FMJ's 73 Coronet in Brooklyn NY and we drove to Detroit for Roadkill Nights drag racing on Woodward by the M1. He had the exhaust done there,we went with a 318 and now sounds like a 340:lol: Show some love for all MOPARS big & small:moparsmiley::usflag:

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Hey,I didn't mean to piss in your cheerios:rolleyes: The higher you crank up the torsion bars the harder the ride,crank 'em all the way and the front tires will bounce off the ground on every bump you drive over.
Think of them like adjustable springs.:thumbsup:
 
Thanks for all the replies, she's a crappy $500 shitbox that I can fit my fist in the rustholes in the fenders and the pass floor needs serious sheetmetal before I can put a seat in. I'm sick of trying to have nice cars so I'm going to start with something unloved and beyond what most would consider restoring and do everything wrong. I rebuilt the carter and still having issues so I picked up a weiand action plus and an avs2 on Corona-sale. Disclaimer, car looked like this upon purchase, all the stupid duke boys sticker bs will come off, and keeping it poo-brown. The glasspack welded to the side will probably come off too, thinking about a cheap diy boomtube style dual exhaust for more clearance, and putting a fuel cell in the trunk to get rid of the low hanging factory tank (which already has a huge dent in it.

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also picked up a d60 from a mid-60s sweptline for $100 that may find it's way under here
 
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Love this, wish they went into more detail of the "frame" install. I've thought about swapping it onto a OBS ford ttb frame but that's kind of hokey. The ttb does sound like a great way to get the front powered and still have a nice ride and good travel, but I might just be dreaming. That's a lot of fab work, and a lincoln locked d60 should suffice for the offroading I would want to do. Might need a winch just in case though...
 
looks like wood getters i've seen , does it got seats or just a bucket . i saw a rancher put a 66 impala with a 427 4spd 4.1 12 bolt posi up a trail we where using a 4x4 to climb . he was just after fire wood . pulled the seats , broke out the rear window and removed the trunk lid . he'd file that car up with cut wood to burn in his fireplace . he called it a ''beater wood getter ''
 
POMONAMISSEL said:
looks like wood getters i've seen , does it got seats or just a bucket . i saw a rancher put a 66 impala with a 427 4spd 4.1 12 bolt posi up a trail we where using a 4x4 to climb . he was just after fire wood . pulled the seats , broke out the rear window and removed the trunk lid . he'd file that car up with cut wood to burn in his fireplace . he called it a ''beater wood getter ''
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It had a bench, I was going to try to reupholster it then decided that some hyundai buckets from pick-n-pull on $15 seat day would cost less, be more comfortable, and save a ton of work and stress
 
Trunk lid might stay off, picked up a couple of old school mini-bikes and would be very easy to build some mounts in the trunk to haul them up in the woods. That, or put the trunk lid back on and build a truck lumber rack onto it.
 
late 80s/early 90s......guy around here had a purple challenger convertible bolted to a ramcharger frame on like 38 inch tires........ I think it got put back to normal at some point more recent
 
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