I know this has been asked a number of times in the past and I did peruse the threads on this subject using the search function; all offered good insight into this popular problem.
My car is leaning 3/8's of an inch on the passenger side front and back. I have Hotchkis 2" drop springs in front and DS&E 3" drop springs in the rear. When installing all the springs I laid them side by side to verify there was no difference in height and the suspenion was assembled "loose" before dropping the full weight of the car on it. With those two criteria satisfied it can only leave the "seat pocket issue" with one of the front springs or the body has been slighly tweaked.
The car has never been in an accident (a fact I am certain of since this car has been in my family since day one). The only thing that stands out to me was back in 1993 I put a 100 shot of nitrous oxide on my then 331 small block with 4:56 gears and TH400 trans with 10 inch stall. Not sure what kind of horsepower or torque it had but my fastest time I ran a 12:70 in the quarter mile with drag slicks. The car did not lift the wheels but had a pretty good launch.
......I did not have sub-frame connectors on the car (...I know, I was young, forgive me).
Would that have been enough to twist the body? If so and I have to have this fixed....can anyone from Michigan recommend a good frame-alignment shop where I can have the alignment of the frame-to-body checked and fixed if there is an issue?
Thank you.
My car is leaning 3/8's of an inch on the passenger side front and back. I have Hotchkis 2" drop springs in front and DS&E 3" drop springs in the rear. When installing all the springs I laid them side by side to verify there was no difference in height and the suspenion was assembled "loose" before dropping the full weight of the car on it. With those two criteria satisfied it can only leave the "seat pocket issue" with one of the front springs or the body has been slighly tweaked.
The car has never been in an accident (a fact I am certain of since this car has been in my family since day one). The only thing that stands out to me was back in 1993 I put a 100 shot of nitrous oxide on my then 331 small block with 4:56 gears and TH400 trans with 10 inch stall. Not sure what kind of horsepower or torque it had but my fastest time I ran a 12:70 in the quarter mile with drag slicks. The car did not lift the wheels but had a pretty good launch.
......I did not have sub-frame connectors on the car (...I know, I was young, forgive me).
Would that have been enough to twist the body? If so and I have to have this fixed....can anyone from Michigan recommend a good frame-alignment shop where I can have the alignment of the frame-to-body checked and fixed if there is an issue?
Thank you.
Usually cross corners.
