Any suspension, no matter how poorly designed, can be made to work reasonably well...

[Twentyover]

... if you just stop it from moving. Colin Chapman


And mine is really poorly designed.

I have a mid-70’s European Ford with a true Mac- Fear- son strut (lateral track arm, located fore-aft by front sway bar) front suspension. I’ve had the car for 40 years- When it was new, I did exactly what everyone else was doing, snubbing down the suspension. Until all my front suspension compliance was in tire sidewall flex. Seriously, it handled great- well, it handled OK, but tire’s sucked and most of my friends didn’t know what they were doing. Neither did I.


That was then, now is now


I still like the car, but want it to handle and to ride. Did I mention the only front suspension movement was tire sidewall deformation? Have 2 options- SLA and trying to improve the MacStrut. Fishing for ideas on how top improve the mac strut so I don’t compress my spine w/ every Michigan pothole I hit, or someone tell me to toss the strut and start with some sort of SLA, along w/ recommendations. I’ve been toying with the idea of Mustang II, but am aware of at least some of it’s shortcomings due to short A-Arm length



Any takers? Anyone want to venture into the swamp with me?