WOW how did I miss this one. I love your car. I love the road race look.HOw does it handle with the global west a arms. DId you do the shelby drop. Also did you use loweriung springs in the frt with the shelby drop. Nice ride. Any and all info you can share would be sincerley appreciated. I am going this route with my car. I have also contemplated the whole rear shock thing and hav come up with the rear shocks on 83-87 grandprixs , cutlasses, montecarlos, would work but they would have to mounted upside down. I dont think that would cause a problem. I just have to measure them open and closed to make sure they have the the right range of motion. Good luck and keep that thing going. I love the look and the mods AWESOME
I don't have any "in process" pics of the shocks, but I do have pics of them in the car. As for the front bar, that is still on my 'to do' list, The sway bars were among the last things that I did to the car, and to make a long story short, the "that'll do for now" attitude took control of Mr.Goodjudgement. It still works,probably not as good as it should, and its probably not the best thing to do. I'm thinking of a couple of ways to do it(move the mounts), either cut the spot welds and move them forward, or I was thinking of re-engineering the mounts where they are by using a longer piece of steel, of the same shape, welding it to the mount, and extending it forward past the mount and welding it to the framerail. It doesn't need to move that far maybe a distance equal to half the length of the mount itself. I will get pics of this when and while I'm working on it. Again sorry for the late reply, our inch of possible snow turned into more, ended up shoveling. I wish I could screw up my job like a weatherman and not get fired. I painted the tops of the shocks to cover the welds.
Global West gives you a template that you bolt in place of the upper control arm, then drill the new holes, its basically the Shelby idea just with a different type of control arm. They also give you a couple of different alignment specs,(street or race). The springs I used were just Mustang springs with a coil cut off. I wouldn't start at a full coil, a wise man told me you can always cut more off. I think it handles great for a car that wasn't meant to, its no Enzo, but I wouldn't know how that is anyways.
Nice set-up,nothing beats a good handling car.As for the sway bar-the front mount needs to be moved 1" forward.At least that's what I measured on mine.I haven't moved mine yet,but I did figure out how I'm going to do it.Drill out the spot welds and re-weld the bracket back to the frame rail.While your'e at it you need to drill and tap the front bushings for a grease fitting.It's easy to do and really helps if you are running urethane bushings(they have a tendency to squeak after awhile)I also replaced the end link bolt with a B-7 stud so I can adjust the height to fine tune latter.I would also suggest welding in some thicker washers where the end links attach to the lower control arm.I learned this the hard way on one of my Mustangs when I went to a heavier sway bar.If you do some spirited driving,the heavier sway bar puts more strain on the lower control arm where the end link attaches and they will crack,all that energy gets transferred to the lower arm and since they are stamped sheet metal,fatigue will set in.Boxing them is a good idea and easy.I would really like to go to the Global West arms,just not in the budget right now.Have you considered rack and pinion for increased handling?
graybeard, Thanks for the tips, the Global West stuff is worth the money, it wasn't exactly in the budget for me either but the old stuff needed to be replaced anyway. I haven't given rack and pinion much thought at all, but I did try to find a steering box with a quicker ratio, no luck, so I had mine rebuilt last year, too much play.
hum interesting! but that does sound scary with the welding and all.. but very nice! somehting i have to consider.. thanks for taking the time out and posting pictures!
