84-87 front suspension
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Racer
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Both. looks like the lower control arm has two holes in it to mount a bracket. The frame builder just attached the swaybar link to a hole that doesnt look too strong. I pulled up a diagram and noticed that a bracket attaches there to shift the stress to two different points. I like the early c4 set up and forged upper and lower arms, but want to set up the sway bar the way it was meant to attach.
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Racer
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They removed the entire lower control arm top bracket where the shock and sway bar mount. They have the QA1 coilover mounted to a smaller bracket in the bottom valley of the control arm then the sway bar just mounted to a factory hole on the side of the control arm. Not optimal...
Burning Brakes
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Not even adequate in my opinion - passing the load of the sway bar to just one pressure point on one arm of the control arm. I think you'd wind up with a broken control arm after a hard bump...
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yep...they took the "shock plate" out so the coil-over would fit. The coil-over makes the shock plate useless...so if you go back to conventional shocks and the monospring, you gotta have that plate. Look around FleaBay for the plate. I was just looking at some while seraching for new control arms to polish & swap out with my plain aluminum arms..not so pretty.
ANyway, its just the shock plate ...bolts on, sway bar end link set bolts to that. Not a big deal. Get a drawing and its pretty self explainatory.
ANyway, its just the shock plate ...bolts on, sway bar end link set bolts to that. Not a big deal. Get a drawing and its pretty self explainatory.
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Racer
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Here is an identical setup as mine:
http://www.corvettefever.com/howto/59040/photo_20.html
and
http://www.corvettefever.com/howto/59040/photo_15.html
You can see the new lower shock mount, but the sway bar mount is gone now. I don't want to connect it to the hole on the one leg.
http://www.corvettefever.com/howto/59040/photo_20.html
and
http://www.corvettefever.com/howto/59040/photo_15.html
You can see the new lower shock mount, but the sway bar mount is gone now. I don't want to connect it to the hole on the one leg.
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Here's what I have
http://www.guldstrand.com/scripts/pr...?idproduct=142
Here's what you need
http://www.guldstrand.com/scripts/pr...?idproduct=141
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One mine you need to tell them IT WAS FOR COILOVERS
The parts are different in order to clear.