Owner built on a budget;

[Hray]

Yeh guys it aint over,

85 days down, 5 days till load it in the trailer time.

she wanted to dance again today, we got it out in the sun and stood back to check things out, the front end was just way too high. we watched closely and when on jack and the letting front end down it only came down about an inch. and no suspension at all, way too stiff. so what to do. we can not take it to autorama looking like a 4 by 4 jeep. do we cut the springs to lower it just for now and then deal with it later or what.

I called american mustangs for leads on springs, then called american pastimes. Ron had springs from 275 spring rate up to 375 in stock, 99$ a pair take your pick for rates.

This was at 1pm our time. I jumped in car and drove up to get a set of 275 pound rate. Got home and then began to tear down front suspension, The spring I took out was huge in the wire diamater most like half inch and it had 7.5 coils in it. the new spring was a size down in wire diameter and had 9.5 coils in it and was inch and half taller. I am guessing some already cut the one down that I had.

I installed the new springs, sat the car back on ground with wheels installed, still about 4 inches of wheel well showing. took them back off and sawed off one complete coil. Reinstalled and this brought the wheel well opening about 1.5 inches above the tire. I know these springs will settle some over time so I can live with this, Actually, if it doesn't settle I can live with it just fine. With car on ground and without shock installed we get several inches of travel up and down, I do not think too much, I reinstalled shocks and got about half the easy travel. I will run with these shocks for now, but will most likely get some adjustable shocks this way I can soften them up for long rides and if I want I can adjust them down for mountains or a road course.

now the car is sitting nearly level if anything the rear is just barely higher than the front.

so maybe sunshine tomorrow and I can get some outside pictures. but now I also gotta repaint some of the suspension from all this redo.

O well, mama said there would be days like this.

and you certainly can count on photos of the setup at autorama. I will post them next thursday nite as the show opens at noon on friday. so far we did not have any disappointments in the sun.

you know if the car had a straight axle in front for drag racing it would have had the correct stance from back in the day.