Chevrolet 454SS - car classics

Chevrolet 454SS

After that, as in the mid-1980s stopped problems with the fuel, manufacturers began to produce machines more powerful and Intrusive American idea of a pickup truck soon a new market: the market of freight car with a powerful engine and suspension designed for heavy road conditions. Chevrolet which has long produced pickups, was one of the first companies that came to the market with the model 1989 454 S1500, which transformed the appearance of the whole for the year before this, so she looked modern. In the lower part of the model SS454 still looked like a truck, with a powerful chassis with glazed of step-type and similar cars front dvuhrychazhnoy suspension with cross-leverage, but leaf springs at the rear. All the springs have been improved and instead of the standard set of shock absorbers Bilstein shock absorbers. Was also modified the steering mechanism with the rapid shift to facilitate management. The volume of the engine with a large stroke of the piston was 7.4 liters, he was taken from the standard pickups From/To a weight of 1 ton. It was designed on a small number of revolutions per minute. Transfer number in the rear part was of 4.10:1 and contributed to the rapid acceleration.