Strut choice for a tube deal on my truck?????

I have been planning/contemplating building a 2x3" chassis for my truck to get some major weight off. The truck currently has a ladder bar floater set up under it in the rear and stock front suspension with shortened coils and 90/10 shocks. I was planning on using a foxbody style strut to keep the costs down and also thinking of parts availibility. Some say it won't work and some say it will. To get the truck to where I want weightwise it I would need to do ALOT of cutting and building a completely new frame would honestly take less work. I have found all the parts I need to do the build but I do not want a tuning nightmare.

I have been told that the fox strut will give way too much travel but also told that being a small tire truck it will need the travel to plant the rear tires with ladder bars.

I need some guidance from the chassis experts, but a couple things;

1. I am sticking with ladder bars and going to buy some D/A coilovers for the rear.

2. I do not want to spend ~$2700 for a strut package

3. If this will not work I will stick to cutting up the stock frame to get the weight off.

Thanks in advance!

i had the fox type on my car before and i worked ok. if you dont need the travel use a limiter.....

Any tuning issues? I had the same thought on the limiters.

cool 40 knows.......

I believe that the 94-04 mustang struts had 1" less travel than the earlier fox struts. Maybe a strut designed for those years would help.

Jess

richter69 wrote:cool 40 knows.......

hErO knows too. what setup you got Jon?

grande has some old aje crap that use passenger car strut cartridges, with 1.5" of travel they do little lol, I just use the proggressive and the 7531 to control the wheelstands...... sometimes.

the 81 has a cheap set of strange singles, full travel it needs all the height it can get, witt the SLR it has by the time it starts getting good air it runs outta gear lol. you can ride it out, not so with the bb car.........

The Fox/SN95 strut would probably be a good usable choice for a full chassis truck (even though they are a fairly tall strut package) since a truck has a taller front fender height compared to a passenger car's shorter fender height. And adding travel limiters would probably be a good idea too since the Fox/SN95 struts have more travel than the short struts normally used on a lot of full chassis builds.

If it was my truck I would use round tubing vs the 2x3 stuff.

Thanks for the info guys!

Id get a foxbody...................

richter69 wrote:Id get a foxbody...................

Silver Fox???????

richter69 wrote:Id get a foxbody...................

Got one that's getting a 25.5 chassis over next year or so honestly I should just get the weight out of the truck I can without a complete chassis knowing that I am gonna be building the Mustang for 2014.

just put a bottle on it and pick up the et that way. then use the money that you safed for your mustang build win win

Wife says no nitrous I can build a bigger engine when money allows but NO NITROUS.