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Mallory

04-02-2011 07:10 PM

Made my own.

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Designed it after Jim Myers racing.

oldblue1968chevy

04-02-2011 09:39 PM

Re: Made my own.

looks good to me ;)

broey

04-02-2011 09:52 PM

Re: Made my own.

awesome work man:metal: what all did you make and what is purchased?

lolife99

04-02-2011 10:09 PM

Re: Made my own.

What spindle are you using?

nastyc10

04-03-2011 12:48 AM

Re: Made my own.

nice work!

Mallory

04-03-2011 09:54 AM

Re: Made my own.

I made the crossmember,upper and lower control arms, upper control arm mount and frame stiffner.I used the Hotchkis sway bar,Metric Impala spindles(from speedway),QA1 coilovers,Thunderchicken rack and pinion and napa ball joints.

bcutt

04-03-2011 10:29 AM

Re: Made my own.

How did you come up with the measurements for the upper and lower A arms? Your work is bad a$$! I would like to attempt my own front suspension when that hurdle comes and this is inspiration!

N2TRUX

04-03-2011 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Mallory (Post 4597066)

I made the crossmember,upper and lower control arms, upper control arm mount and frame stiffner....

Is that all? I thought you were going to impress with your fab skills....;)

Mallory

04-03-2011 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by bcutt (Post 4597118)

How did you come up with the measurements for the upper and lower A arms? Your work is bad a$$! I would like to attempt my own front suspension when that hurdle comes and this is inspiration!

I mounted the frame to my welding table and made a jig under my original suspension.This gave me a guideline to reference to my lower balljoint location. After that it was just reading alot of books and getting info from different websites and measuring alot.I looked at buying a kit but didnt see one i liked so i combined several different things from several different companies.

bcutt

04-03-2011 07:48 PM

Re: Made my own.

Right on man, thanks for the answer. Do you have any more pics taken during the process? I like the idea of building a jig off the stock suspension :metal:

Mallory

04-03-2011 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by bcutt (Post 4598022)

Right on man, thanks for the answer. Do you have any more pics taken during the process? I like the idea of building a jig off the stock suspension :metal:

The jig was just a few pieces of square tubing,Used it to mark my lower control arm location.

67cheby

04-04-2011 04:56 PM

Re: Made my own.

Nice work

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