I think Derek has the bead on what you want. It all depends on what you plan to do with the car. The GM A-body suspension is one of the best designed in my opinion. It does a great job of providing a smooth ride with capable cornering characteristics. It will also plant the tires hard on a drag race type launch at the track. (since we don't street race because it's dangerous)
There are things you can do to upgrade the suspension, but there's a trade off somewhere. If you want it to corner like it's on rails, you'll give up ride quality. If you want to stand the car up on it's rear bumper, it probably won't turn corners very well. You get the idea.
About the best system I've come up with for all-around performance was new stock rubber bushings everywhere, Moog variable rate rear springs and gas charged Gabriel shocks. New stock springs in the front will go a long way to stiffen things up. DO NOT get big block springs for the front. If you do, the tires will have more give than the front springs will. I made that mistake once before and my Chevelle didn't ride quite as nice as my 1981 1 ton crew cab dually.
Now having said all this, I've heard Hotchkis makes great stuff.
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Alan
1964 Chevelle SS
Speed's expensive, how fast do you want to go?
Last edited by earthquake68; 08-26-2011 at 09:42 AM.
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