I have a 71 ls5 that I bought as a project. The
body and
frame are in good condition and the vette looks original. Upon closer
examination while removing the gas tank, I found two heavy bars (5/8")
coming from the frame behind the tires in to meet at the rear bumper
support. Whilst routing down the source of these seemingly support
bars I
found that there is an additional shock absorber device on each wheel.
I
wired brushed to find that they say HOUDAILLE on them and nothing else.
I
have scoured the internet trying to find info on these things. To my
best
guess they are lever action shocks. It also has additional sway bars
attatched to the lever shock (in addtion to the stock) It seems to me
that
this car may have been raced. I have found an older holley electric
fuel
pump and a mallory ingnition box in the nose. these, and the
suspension,
seem to be the only variances from stock. I bought it sans engine from
an
internet ad. It also has an import tag from!
> brussels right below the manufacturers tag in the engine
compartment. It
also has the KM/h ring in the speedo from being in Germany ( i know,
Brussels is in Belgium, but that was just the import site, I believe) I
think that it belonged to a GI in Viet nam and he took it to germany
with
him. Could it be that this was something the europeans did to improve
handling? For a street car, This amount of suspension reinforcement
would be
overkill for the street. It does have the gymkhana spring. As far as I
can
discern, Americans haven't used Houdailles since the 40's. Any help
with
this would be much appreciated.
body and
frame are in good condition and the vette looks original. Upon closer
examination while removing the gas tank, I found two heavy bars (5/8")
coming from the frame behind the tires in to meet at the rear bumper
support. Whilst routing down the source of these seemingly support
bars I
found that there is an additional shock absorber device on each wheel.
I
wired brushed to find that they say HOUDAILLE on them and nothing else.
I
have scoured the internet trying to find info on these things. To my
best
guess they are lever action shocks. It also has additional sway bars
attatched to the lever shock (in addtion to the stock) It seems to me
that
this car may have been raced. I have found an older holley electric
fuel
pump and a mallory ingnition box in the nose. these, and the
suspension,
seem to be the only variances from stock. I bought it sans engine from
an
internet ad. It also has an import tag from!
> brussels right below the manufacturers tag in the engine
compartment. It
also has the KM/h ring in the speedo from being in Germany ( i know,
Brussels is in Belgium, but that was just the import site, I believe) I
think that it belonged to a GI in Viet nam and he took it to germany
with
him. Could it be that this was something the europeans did to improve
handling? For a street car, This amount of suspension reinforcement
would be
overkill for the street. It does have the gymkhana spring. As far as I
can
discern, Americans haven't used Houdailles since the 40's. Any help
with
this would be much appreciated.
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