Re: Hotrod to ####'s Truck Arm Suspension
Hey There,
Well I don't have any experience w/ HTH's truck arm set up but do have an opinion for you,had a 65 Chev truck years ago,The original Truck Arm Suspension,short bed,somewhat hot,loved the way it handled and always thought that would be a cool car suspension,like really long ladder bars! Got into Nascar a while back and discovered they all are truck arm and thought that was really cool! Millions of dollars and that's the best they could come up with for 200mph race cars! My guess is some Southern Gentleman needed to build a race car and had a pick up chassis laynig around and well took it and smoked everyone else as I havn't found any history on it,discovered HTH and was delighted to find they were working on a G-body kit,lots of adjustability,stable at high speeds,great hook,what more could you want? After studying the pics for a while I discovered you have to chop the rear foot wells,no big deal as I'm a weldor/fabricator and you have to run side outlet exhaust ala Nascar,sacrifices you have to make,I
decided that was the way to go till I read a test in a magazine,they did HTH's 66 Malibu shop car,put down good #'s,skidpad & slalom,cool,
then a few pages later did a test on a 65 Malibu equiped with i think a Hotchkiss set up,basically all bolt ons,it put up the same if not a tad better #'s in the same tests,so for my money I just can't see it,to anyone connected with HTH looks like great products and for someone wanting extreem high speed performance it would be the way to go,
maybe in my next life if I wanted to bulid a 200mph nightstalker to go play with rich kids in Porches & Ferraris and things like that I would deffinatly use one as that design has been proven time & time again!
Well there it is,hope it helps! Later KillerDave