solid mount rear ends

[flatheadgary]

Don, i have always looked at altereds to see how the rear is mounted and have found other than maybe '27 T's very few run suspension on them. i know altereds have a hard time hooking up as they are so light. i think if you go to the drags and check out a few you'll find nobody has come into the 21 century. hey, if suspension would work, i feel fuel altereds would use it. other than the transformer altereds, that are built from funny car type chassis, i don't find very many that have suspension. i thought about this all when i built my flathead bantam and decided that it would be lighter(ie. faster) without it. just let air in or out of the tires or add weight to each tire to get the traction you need. simple no? besides, you don't have as many points of failer, since you don't have coils, heim joints and bars very little to break. above all this, if your under 10 seconds they go pretty straight and if you are on a track that it won't hook, just sit back and relax, it probably would kill you if it did (left or right). it seems to me at every track you go to with a suspended car, you spend the whole day adjusting everything. i would rather be racing.