Been out of the loop for a while... need advice

[Djstorm100]

need experienced drag race car builds advice

I'm rebuilding my fox hatch, I had to stop due to school and work. Now school is about over and I'm slowly starting to work on it again. The chassis is up on jack stands and I'm wanting to get it to be a rolling chassis again.

I need:
Lower and Upper rear control arms
Front Ball Joints
Spring isolators (rubber pieces that go on top and bottom of the springs)
Bushings for the rear end housing.


My question is this with upper and lower control arms, whats the best bang for the buck. I'm going to have around 500whp and 450-480 tq, so I need something thats going to hold. I would like to set it up for drag/street 60/40%

Questions:

Also is torque boxes really all that they are cracked up to be?
Maximum Motorsports said to use factory uppers, but use after market lowers...

 

[2000xp8]

Buy complete front control arms, they come with ball joints
Rear control arms you can pick whatever you like, their is a million sets.
For rear uppers i'd use Double Adj's.
Energry suspension isolator kit.

If you are asking if torque boxes can get torn up, the answer is yes, and it's very expensive to fix. So support them now to save money.

 

[Djstorm100]

are all tq boxes the same? or is there differen thickness depending on the manufactor?

 

[2000xp8]

The torque boxes are on the car.
You are talking about torque box re-enforcements.

I think almost all the torque box re-enforcements are made by the same company and or identical copies of each other. So i wouldn't really worry to much.