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Cheap way to fix the twist.

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Cheap way to fix the twist.

Post by 74chick on Sat Aug 21, 2010 11:24 pm

We all know the a-body twist that we have when we leave the stop light. Heres what I did to fix it.
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Passanger, preloaded about 5-8in down the shock.

It's cheap and it works!

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Re: Cheap way to fix the twist.

Post by TWBouska AKA Wooderson on Sun Aug 22, 2010 11:37 am

that thing must be deafening loud with that exhaust...love it!

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Re: Cheap way to fix the twist.

Post by 77malibu77 on Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:45 pm

74chick wrote:We all know the a-body twist that we have when we leave the stop light. Heres what I did to fix it.
drivers
Passanger, preloaded about 5-8in down the shock.

It's cheap and it works!


wait what did you do?

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Re: Cheap way to fix the twist.

Post by 74chick on Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:30 pm

Look for the blue springs over the shocks. There for trucks too increace the load they can carry. But, if you preload them by jacking the opiste side of the rearend, it takes the place of a airbag in the pass rear spring. I put them on both sides to take up some of the slack from the old springs.

Oh, yes it is load. What a Face


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Re: Cheap way to fix the twist.

Post by The Dude on Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:51 pm

LoL that works too. I scored a set of drag bags off of G3NUT for like $50 though.

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Post by BlackChevelleSS on Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:40 pm

Thought you was talking about chassis twist not suspension flex

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Re: Cheap way to fix the twist.

Post by The Dude on Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:53 pm

What? Didn't you know that these damn full frames aren't as solid as a uni-body? LMAO!

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Re: Cheap way to fix the twist.

Post by BlackChevelleSS on Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:40 am

What?

Only way to prevent twist is a roll cage and Solid body bushings.

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Re: Cheap way to fix the twist.

Post by The Dude on Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:34 am

I prefer my heavy full framed car over a crinkle-body any day. Of course if you really want to go as far as solid body bushings, might as well go for motor plates & solid trans mount too.

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Post by 74chick on Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:33 am

But by then you will need a body to go with all that tube. LOL

Oh I treid this becouse I had had springs and didn't have the money for air bags. Sad
But this works just fine for me. Twisted Evil

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Re: Cheap way to fix the twist.

Post by The Dude on Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:47 am

If it works don't knock it. Right?

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Re: Cheap way to fix the twist.

Post by JB2wheeler on Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:52 am

Did you ever take an aluminum Coke can and crush it with your hand and then try to straighten it back up? Sure, you could split it down the side and get a tiny hammer in there and beat out all the dents and then weld it back together, but it STILL will not be as good as it was before you crushed it. That is how I compare unibody cars to full frame cars. JB

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Re: Cheap way to fix the twist.

Post by Limey SE on Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:52 am

74chick wrote:But by then you will need a body to go with all that tube. LOL

Oh I treid this becouse I had had springs and didn't have the money for air bags. Sad
But this works just fine for me. Twisted Evil


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