MOPAR 'E' BODY Front Suspension Kits For Street And Strip. 70-74 Barracuda. 70-74 Challenger. LEARN MORE Prev Next. Welcome To HDK Suspension. We take pride in creating the absolute best front suspension systems for old Mopars. We make everything from custom K-members to full coilover conversions. Complete packages including shocks. On another forum, I started a thread about how welding critical areas on the k member can improve your steering precision and feel. This really isn't anything new. Firm Feel Inc has been doing this for years and still offers this service. Mopar Action magazine has had articles where they mention it as well. As stock, the k member worked as.
MOTOR TRAXX MOPAR TECHLlNEby Frank Doty
K-Members and motor trades
This is a popular area for debate. Many San Antonio Mopar Membership members wish to create engine adjustments from one family to another. Example: swap from an A motor to a C or RB or change from a sIant six to á V-8. There are three fundamental questions to end up being asked. Did your preferred combination actually exist? what body will become used? and will á K-member modification be needed?
Evéryone who hásn't carried out it, perceives that a K-member change looks intimidating It is definitely really very simple and easy to do. There are usually some easy trades that require no K-member modification.
A-bódy 1964 through 1966
The V-8 used the same K member as thé slant six. Use the brackets and insulators fróm a 273 and bolt in a 273, or 318. The 340 and 360 are also really easy and require little change of the still left side group. Stay apart from huge blocks in this body. The motor compartment is too little and one problem prospects to another.
Big hindrances can become set up in the later on A-bodies by using the 383 K-member, brackets and insulators. Thé 440 will match on the exact same K-mémber.
B-bodiés 62-72
There are three simple combinations with this body design. The slant six, the V-8, and the Hemi. This makes engine swaps very simple, if you possess a V-8 K-member. Merely locate the correct mounting brackets and insulators ánd bolt thém in. Six cylinder conversion rate will require the switch to the Sixth is v-8 K-member. The Hemi is usually totally various and demands the costly and difficult to find K-member. Illustration: a '66 Charger with a 318 can become a 383 or 440 car with relatives ease.
E-bodiés
Thé E-body is the easiest to exchange motors in, owing to the truth that it had been produced for five years and every V-8 except the 273 was offered. Just the Hemi requires special items. Find the appropriate mounting brackets and insulators ánd boIt it up. Numerous of these mounting brackets are still accessible at your friendly Mopar store. The 318 uses certain items, the 340 and 360 use the exact same parts, and the 383, 400, and 440 use the same parts. All V-8 K-members were the exact same, except for thé Hémi.
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When I send to the brackets and insulators I have always been referring to the metal piece that bolts to the engine, and the rubber motor position.
A useful tip for engine swappers: Visualize a guide transmitting with a bell housing; now picture a 904 or 727 seated by itself. The range on all transmissións from the crossmémber mount to the front side of the bellhousing or situation is specifically 22.66 ins. This will be the dimension on all transmissions. Today if you boIt up your motor and trans mixture and begin to set up it from the rear first you will constantly range up correctly on the K-member irrespective of the engine/trans combination.
.I would including to remind anyone considering a modification of any kind keep in mind you have got to reside with the results. In some other words, construct what you require for the program not really what you think you require. There is usually nothing even more disheartening than too much camshaft, not more than enough converter, no vacuum, too very much equipment to make the cruise ships, overheating, and miserable driving inclinations.
Enjóy.
Bob Doty
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