List, Dave,
I, too, like the Revington conversion; that's the way Benz and BMW do
it, and their engineering is excellent. The other is like
Racestorations, except Racestorations is aluminum. That is easy; remove
the lever shock and the vertical link and your're done. Revington's
coil over requires pulling the half shaft because you cannot get the
swing arm to drop enough to install the spring and shock (the half shaft
strikes the frame), and I don't think you can do it by pulling the
attaching bolts and dropping the front end of the swing arm. I suspect
you also have to completely remove the swing arm.
The swing arm has to travel up and down in an arc (the radius probably
is enormous, but an arc nevertheless, and on none of the others do I see
a pivot at the top. The coil over would be much less of an arc (or much
shorter radius).
I just wonder if reinforcement of the differential bridge (which is a
far cry from the Brooklyn Bridge to begin with) is required to carry the
stress of both the coil, which is certainly uprated, and the shock.
Gene
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