Thread: 4 Link & Diff Yoke Angles?

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Well I'm getting ready to start on the frame and rear end now.
I've decided to cut my own axle housing down and send the axle's out to be done. They will be cut and re-splined from 28 to a 31 spline. I'm working with a true Ford 9in. This is gonna be drivin by a 600 HP 351Boss/Cleveland & a small block C - 6 trany. My questions are with some of the angles, Like the pinion or rear end yoke, 3 degrees down? 4 Link lower bar level, top bar 4degrees down towards the front of the car? This is a 1965 Falcon Ranchero and is used for a street,strip drag car. Recomend any books to help.
thanks for the input.

~ Vegas ~

I'm guessing you are going to use coilovers. On my car, I'm running a 4 bar with coilovers and I run the lower bar parallel to the ground and the upper bar angled down in the front. I kept lowering it until the car acted the way I wanted it to. You will know when it's wrong after you drive it around a while. Initially, I had my upper bar parallel to the lower bar. The car would just burn the hides under moderate throttle. Once I lowered the upper bar in the front, the car now squats when I hit it, an it just goes.

Keith...

Yup! From what I've been told, the farther the intersect point through the bars is forward, the more advantage the motor has over the rear suspension. In simple terms of course.

Coil springs, with the 4 link. hows about the Pinion angle?

~ Vegas ~