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Old Jul 3, 2020 | 10:14 AM
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Does anyone out there have the Shark Bite rear suspension installed and would be willing to take some measurements for me?

I’m swapping the stock differential for a Torsten diff out of a 15 Mustang. I’m also switching to coil overs and figured it might be cool to create my own version of the Shark Bite setup.

My initial questions are, what model (length) are the coil overs and what is the ratio of the pivot block? Based on pics, it looks to be around a 2 to 1 ratio of trailing arm movement to shock movement.

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Old Jul 5, 2020 | 09:04 AM
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1 bump in the hopes someone is willing to help.

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Some coil over measurements and notes I made:

We had a discussion on here in May? about coil over spring rates.
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...s-weights.html
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Scott, just saw a message from you, I know im a couple of years late, but how is the progress with your IRS swap?
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