Setting up the 67 for street and some road course racing. Working from a clean slat I will be going with a four link rear suspension. Coil over strut front keeping the shock towers. Rack and pinion steering.
a few question for some of the road course racers an such.
Are you going to sub-frame it? 1967’s only have the one torque box.
I think that Cougar Bill is the resident Cougar Road Racer.
Brian, I would explore the manual rack and pinion with the electric steering assist. There is a company called EPAS Performance. http://www.usautoperformance.com/epas/
They have an upcoming magazine feature coming out.
One of the reason I’m looking at the TCI setup is it ties the front and rear frames together. Also ties it across which will give it some lateral stiffness I’m thinking. I’m also welding in a torque box on the passenger side. Going to stiffen up the towers as well. Going to fab up my own pieces of metal to enforce the towers.
The EPAS is neat, but would add a lot of cost. I think if I go with the right rack I wouldn’t need EPAS.
A lot of cool stuff on the Cobra page and I’m sure, very pricey as well. I’m not trying to stay in the vintage category and want to go away from trying to improve the stock suspension and go with new technology.
If you take it slowly, you can add a lot of strength by welding up the floor joints which are spot welded together from the factory.
I’d use the leaf springs and add a panhard bar, unless you want to get more tire under it. You can weld in frame connectors and do a cage. Then it’s rock solid.
But, I’ve heard good things about the rear setup you’re asking about here.
Never installed one though.
i actually have the cpp upper arms for my car and they are a decent product, the only thing i dont like is they dont come with greaseable ball joint.
something to consider about our (heidts) prog 4 link, our kit does not require you to remove a section of the floor like the tcp canted 4link. and ours is a parallel compared to a triangulated setup, we do offer a triangulated setup for the 66-67 fairlane which will fit our cats http://www.heidts.com/part/66-67-ford-fairlane-comet-rear-4-link-suspension/
The RRS has some nice stuff, but very pricey here in the usa. I like the idea of a sealed bearing vs a spindle. I can see where that would be stronger with less flex. I looked into Maier as well, but don’t like their shock mount setup to the upper arm vs the lower. I’ve pretty much decided on TCI three link rear and TCP front kit. need to talk to Justin yet on Heidts products. What is better for road track, power rack or manual?
