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Old 09-24-2021, 08:08 AM   #13
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Re: Vega Stinger ad

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...and some suspension bracing. Vegas had coil springs all around, and that blue one has something visible on the left rear that looks sort of like a traction bar. I know that the one I put a V-8 in got the F41 boxed lower control arms after it buckled the right rear lower control arm on hard acceleration, and that was a bone stock 305 with a 2 barrel carburetor. I expect that low-end torque was higher than what the turbo version put out.
They engineered things to be just strong enough to handle stock hp . Even their big hp cars if you went to much things break . I know from experience
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