How do the HEIDTS Hot Rod & Muscle Car Parts conversion kits compare to the front sub-frame swaps?
A. A properly designed suspension conversion kit will ride and handle every bit as good as a sub-frame swap. The difference in the conversion kit is about one tenth the amount of work. When you cut off your frame rails for a sub-frame swap, you no longer have a place to mount the fenders or radiator. Besides all that, you have to relocate the motor mounts and often times narrow the sub-frame, along with the steering linkage. On quality conversion kit, be it a Mustang type or a tubular control arm type, you simply install the crossmember, which should be designed for your particular frame, bolt on the suspension components, then bolt your car back together. The difference is a job that took only a couple of days rather than two or three weeks.
