[Jack21]

Please keep this in perspective. DV & Don Scott do this professionally. They've built hundreds of cars. I've built one, love it, and drive it nearly every day. My opinion is based on one running example.

Sway bars. Sway bars allow use of softer springs for better ride, yet control body roll in corners. I have both CR front and rear sway bars installed. The car corners like it's on rails, and flat as a pancake in so doing. Notch the cowl insert for sway bar clearance.

Power steering. Back in the days of 165 and 185 size tires on these cars, manual steering worked fine. With 235 and 245 size sticky radials, you might miss the power steering. Loss of road feel on the highway seems to be the biggest complaint with power steering.

I used a rebuilt late Mustang power rack, standard ratio, with high effort valving from AGR. Summit now sells them. The passenger side rack mount on the CR is slotted which allows it to fit. Installed it with offset rack bushings to place the rack centerline where the MII rack centerline was. At this point, either the Ford, or Saginaw (GM) will work. AGR recommended the Saginaw as a better pump, which they also rebuild (and Summit sells). Ford vans and pickups use Saginaw PS pumps. My pump brackets came off a Ford pickup. Last, RB's Antique Automotive sells a low pressure relief valve for Saginaw PS pumps which lightens the assist provided. $39.95. It all works very well. No upper body workout when parking, and good road feel on the highway.

Alignment wise, use '76 - '78 MII spec's (alignment shops have this in their computer) except you want as close to 4 deg caster as you can get. And 6 deg if you have enough adjustment (mine didn't). This came from Don Vancleve before he left CR. Ford definately didn't have the brightest idea when it designed the way the alignment holds into position with the MII. I'm still wrestling with this one.

Who makes/sells your 90 deg upper control arm brackets?

Steering slop. No matter how tight you make the hole where the steering column goes through the firewall, it will always have some movement - slop. I used a 2" muffler clamp sideways on the column, and bolted it through the firewall by the firewall harness. No slop - none.

Get DV's steering column. Solves all the problems, and wiring harnesses are already built in. I struggled with an Ididit before finding out DV made these.