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Old Sep 8, 2006 | 06:38 PM
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Old Sep 8, 2006 | 07:55 PM
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Boy you got big kahunas!!Looks good,are you using a track locater bar or watts link?Did you have to add material to the sides?
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Pretty good setup, like the way youve mounted the springs. BTW which coils/shocks are you using and where did you pick up your links? That looks like a setup I'm going to have to do in a while.
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Old Sep 9, 2006 | 11:50 PM
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Boy you got big kahunas!!Looks good,are you using a track locater bar or watts link?Did you have to add material to the sides?
thanks, the car has a wishbone,
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Old Sep 9, 2006 | 11:51 PM
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Pretty good setup, like the way youve mounted the springs. BTW which coils/shocks are you using and where did you pick up your links? That looks like a setup I'm going to have to do in a while.
the coilovers are QA1, the kit comes with all the brackets and tabs.
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Old Sep 10, 2006 | 05:55 AM
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Are you going to adapt the corvette brakes to the axle or run a racing brake? Man that looks nice!!
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Am in process of doing same.
Got any pics of the front mounts for the four link?
How long are the bars?
Who's 4 link kit?
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Are you going to adapt the corvette brakes to the axle or run a racing brake? Man that looks nice!!
i'm using the stock rear breaks, and aerospace fronts. bowtie8 on the forum put a 9 inch in his car , and the same guy that did his rearend made my brake adapters.
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Originally Posted by rodj
Am in process of doing same.
Got any pics of the front mounts for the four link?
How long are the bars?
Who's 4 link kit?
Cheers
yeah, i got some more pics, the bars are not that long , i think they are about 16inch from center to center of the joints. i got my 4 links from S&W, i went with the chrome moly
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Interesting welds you got there.
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Looking good, you will love the dependibility of a straight axle
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Looking good, you will love the dependibility of a straight axle
thanks alot , your a big part of this project ... thanks for all the help
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Nice...
I also finished mine. Went with a Competition Engineering fabricated 9"housing. Will post pics soon....
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Interesting welds you got there.
you dont like the welds
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Nice...
I also finished mine. Went with a Competition Engineering fabricated 9"housing. Will post pics soon....
cool, thanks
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Hey dude. The deal was if you do yours your coming east to do mine right! Think I remember that being the case

Looks good, interested about your 4 link length...are you to the stock locations? Or longer? Is that one of neverlifts rears?

Interested in talking to you more about this and wanna see how it works for you. i am eventually going to take the plung - what welder are you using?

Thanks! Dang...wish I had one of those!

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Originally Posted by ski_dwn_it
Hey dude. The deal was if you do yours your coming east to do mine right! Think I remember that being the case

Looks good, interested about your 4 link length...are you to the stock locations? Or longer? Is that one of neverlifts rears?

Interested in talking to you more about this and wanna see how it works for you. i am eventually going to take the plung - what welder are you using?

Thanks! Dang...wish I had one of those!
LOL...why not . the 4 links are longer than the stock and they are not to the stock location. i moved the links to the inside of the frame not to the outside like the stockers and leo at neverlifts. the welder i used was for a friend of mine, it's a very nice big $$ miller. the swap was not bad at all i got it done in a 4 days when i had all the parts. the worst part of all was cutting the fiberglass . if you dont want to cut the car up, you can do the same thing leo did. feel free to give me a call.
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Originally Posted by red L98
LOL...why not . the 4 links are longer than the stock and they are not to the stock location. i moved the links to the inside of the frame not to the outside like the stockers and leo at neverlifts. the welder i used was for a friend of mine, it's a very nice big $$ miller. the swap was not bad at all i got it done in a 4 days when i had all the parts. the worst part of all was cutting the fiberglass . if you dont want to cut the car up, you can do the same thing leo did. feel free to give me a call.
Up for a road trip to PA????? Promise its just like hawaii here (in that it rains EVERY day, just with real cold weather.) crap, font sizes only get larger from standard....no fine print here.

Maybe we can link up and you can "hook" me up - in the midst of moving to a new home now, well starting - not looking forward to this event, but can't wait to get in the new home. Once that is done I might be calling on your experience.
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looking good!

you will find after you get the solid axle all in that you'll have a need for much more HP to make the suspension work.

John
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