Thanks Rick, I appreciate that. You know the problem of being a year behind on your build thread is we do already know the outcome, but where’s the suspense in that.
It’s time to make the car a roller and since we have not torn down the front subframe for rebuild yet the focus is on the rear suspension and diff. One decision I had to put some serious thought into was leaf or coil-over. The plan was always to run slapper (traction) bars, day 2, right? Well, we ordered a mini tubbed shell because I wanted to tuck some big meats. That leads to moving the leaf springs inboard for more tire clearance, easy enough with offset shackles and a shock relocation kit. Then came the big problem for me, the fuel tank, sure they make narrowed tanks or even a fuel cell in the trunk, both could solve the problem. But, I don’t want to give up trunk space in my street car and all the narrowed tanks are smooth on the bottom and don’t give a factory stamped appearance from behind the car. Since our car will sit a little higher in the back this would be even more noticeable, argh, crap! After beating myself up way too long I finally decided to go coil-over and try and make it look old school. This way, I’ll get the big meats tucked and can run a factory style tank.
As one of my friends loves to say when I talk about deviating from day 2 stuff “Yep, just like Grumpy had!”
Decision made we ordered a Chris Alston’s Chassisworks G-Link canted 4-link kit with weld on brackets, single adjustable coil-overs with 175lb springs, a 12-bolt weld fixture for the upper brackets, offset lower control arm mounts for mini tubbed cars, and double adjustable upper control arms. Here's a link and a pic, ours won't have the sway bar and no leaf spring brackets.
http://www.cachassisworks.com/p-1299...uspension.aspx