2nd Gen Rear Torque Arm Suspension

[BMR Tech]

I've often thought about doing the same with my Nova.
With all of the after market 12 bolt and 9" rears out there for third and fourth gen F-bodies, I would build a rear using one of those centers and use a fourth gen torque arm. The lower links are already out there. They are commonly used in most four link conversions and can be bought separately from http://www.scandc.com/index.htm . All that is left to fabricate are the front torque arm mount and a panhard rod.

Ken

Interestingly enough, this is what our initial development was based upon. Being a Moser and Strange dealer, we originally planned on using new bolt-in 4th gen F-Body housings and developing the kit around them. For somebody with fabrication experience this would be a slam dunk. Fab up a rear shock crossmember with a panhard mount, a torque arm and crossmember, some lower control arms and build a new driveshaft tunnel and you have a custom setup! This would work well for a one-off setup but the more we looked into this from a production standpoint, it became obvious that it wouldn't work for us. We wanted a bolt-in kit that didn't require any fabrication. We could have accomplished this for the shock crossmember but their is no chance of fitting anything but a driveshaft in that narrow tunnel so major floorpan surgery becomes necesarry. Additionally, our 10 and 12 bolt kits are designed to work with the factory rearends which kept the price more reasonable since you don't have to purchase a rearend with the kit (unless you switch to a Ford 9").