Independant Rear Suspension

[ShelbySean]

Has anyone tried taking the rear suspension of a pt crusier, neon, or new neons, and mounting it on a L-bodie, or anyother? I planed on doing this before and thought it would be cool. Just wondering kids.

[finboy]

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Originally posted by ShelbySean Has anyone tried taking the rear suspension of a pt crusier, neon, or new neons, and mounting it on a L-bodie, or anyother? I planed on doing this before and thought it would be cool. Just wondering kids.

as soon as i get some time i am going to get the rear suspension from a neon at the wrecker, but it is a lot of fabbing/bracing involved.

I was looking into this as well, but that is a future project for me. Priority is getting the Omni up and running right now. I was looking into the possibility of using a Talbot Horizon rear suspension, but no one seems to know if it had an IRS or not. I've e-mail a couple of people on eBay that were selling the car, but so far no replies.

[Kid Doc]

Yes, I have been looking at it as well. The major problem that I have found is that the neon is a fair amount wider in the rear. Something on the order of 4-7 inches (I don't recall it has been a while) So either the fenders on the charger would have to be widened, or the IRS made more narrow.... either way, not the easiest task. ~~Heath

[BadAndy]

Maybe the track width would be better suited for a Daytona instead? From there maybe adpatation would be easier? Just a thought...

[Frank]

the neon, shadow, lancer, daytona, etc. have the same track width, with very similar frame locations. very feasible.

the only hard part is making everything square.

[BadAndy]

Well.....I knew about track width being the same however I was actually thinking about how the body flairs outward quite a bit......in looking at a Daytona it would seem that you could gain some track width in the rear.....being as we are actually talking about a different setup altogether.

[capev86]

IRS - the one item that my Aries wagon (and other fwd mopars) lack that newer cars have!!!

i too wish we could swap over to IRS on our cars. on a smooth flat road, a beam axle is just as good as independent suspension. its when you go around a corner [hard] or hit a bump that puts the wheels at odd angles to each other - results in rear wheel/axle hop and the back end sliding!!!

too bad someone hasn't created an IRS kit for our cars. A modified beam axle would be fine. keep the trailing arm part, remove the central part of the beam and put in cradle setup or diagonal arms going up. there is a reinforced section going accross that might support an IRS setup. as long as the system uses coil springs in the back and not struts like a neon
(so i can use hd springs, air bags, etc)

VW folks seem to do fine with the semi-IRS that they have. The rear axle actually looks very similar to the ones in the L-Bodies.

I guess that IRS would be a good thing though, but i just don't know if the benefit would outweigh the cost and time.

-Aston