It’s interesting this, as Mitch has pointed out there is a revised supposedly better front suspension. But just what constitutes “better”. So far it is untried and untested.
The real question is why? To me an old car is about stepping back in time. Stuffing in an LS1, big modern wheels, sticky tyres and a steering rack won’t get it up to the standard of a modern car. The reality is that if that’s what you want a few grand will buy you a Mercedes E55 AMG. It’ll eat a modified old car for breakfast and you’ll step out of it fresh as a daisy for dinner in Monaco. It was built by real engineers, tried, tested and sorted. The reality is also that obeying the speed limits a well sorted 122S will arrive at about the same time.
Drive your classic, see the world from the perspective of 40 years ago. A perfectly standard 122S or P1800 will cruise down to Monaco without turning a hair.
People are swapping SUs for fuel injection because SUs are unreliable. In point of fact you don’t need fuel injection; you need a mechanic who isn’t brain dead.
The whole resto mod thing is a form of vandalism. Do we “correct” old paintings because we can do the perspective better? Stick Formica on the Chippendale because it isn’t resistant to hot pans? Old cars are fun, too much fun to ignorantly screw them up by trying to impose arbitrary modern standards on them.
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