04-02-2011, 07:10 PM | #1 |
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Made my own.
Designed it after Jim Myers racing.
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04-02-2011, 09:39 PM | #2 |
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Re: Made my own.
looks good to me
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04-02-2011, 09:52 PM | #3 |
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Re: Made my own.
awesome work man what all did you make and what is purchased?
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04-02-2011, 10:09 PM | #4 |
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Re: Made my own.
What spindle are you using?
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04-03-2011, 12:48 AM | #5 |
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Re: Made my own.
nice work!
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04-03-2011, 09:54 AM | #6 |
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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.
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04-03-2011, 10:29 AM | #7 |
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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!
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04-03-2011, 11:10 AM | #8 |
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Re: Made my own.
Is that all? I thought you were going to impress with your fab skills....
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04-03-2011, 02:34 PM | #9 |
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Re: Made my own.
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.
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04-03-2011, 07:48 PM | #10 |
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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
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04-03-2011, 09:13 PM | #11 |
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Re: Made my own.
The jig was just a few pieces of square tubing,Used it to mark my lower control arm location.
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04-04-2011, 04:56 PM | #12 |
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Re: Made my own.
Nice work
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