New guy, just bought a 65 in Lake Havasu

Joey · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:18 am Post subject:

4" Narrowed w/ shock towers with stock wheels will work fine. Yes, get drop spindles to maintain the correct geometry. A flip kit will help on bump steer. If you go more than two notches in the rear you'll need extension plates to correct the toe. Also, get some caster shims for the front beam as well. They go between the bottom torsion tube and the frame head.
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Very Nice!

pOrk · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:41 am Post subject:

Joey, thanks! Whos the best to buy through? I'd like to buy everything I need so when I start I'm not running out of parts, and I'd like to do it right the first time so anyone who you could suggest to start ordering parts through?

touchdowntodd · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:43 am Post subject:

eric, remember if you get a flip kit you need to get later tie rod ends (the larger ones)

we both gotta find someone that does a good alignment locally
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pOrk · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:12 am Post subject:

added a few more pictures too

zozo · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:24 am Post subject:

pOrk · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:39 am Post subject:

Not lashing out, just not interested in keeping my car stock. Simply pointing out I'm no elitist and not interested in car shows, just a fun driver.

woodyracing · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:11 pm Post subject:

pOrk · Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 1:16 pm Post subject:

Alright I bought a 3" adjustable beam, 2" drop spindles, new leaves and tierods, drop shocks, king and link pins, and 4" JerFab drop plates. Having a hard time searching for info on the flip kit? Anyone know where to look?

pOrk · Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 10:52 am Post subject:

Finished painting the beam and got the shocks back on. I think these are custom drop shocks from Airkewld so no idea on what drop they are set up for, I emailed the guy I bought the front end from so hopefully he has some insight for me. Maybe they will work for me, maybe not?

Anyways, here's the beam and a photo of each adjuster. No idea which way I have to go with adjusters yet, still waiting on drop spring plates before installing. Any advice?

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pOrk · Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 1:02 pm Post subject:

Drilled out the tie rod mounts on my drop spindles today, still waiting on bushings
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And drilled/tapped this cast aluminum skull I've had sitting around forever to use as a shift knob. A little cheesy, but I like it:

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pOrk · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 4:08 pm Post subject:

Didn't unload my camera yet, so far these are just phone pics. Heres one the wife took on thursday:

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We had to shorten the tierods 2 inches on both sides as the ones that came with the new front end were way wrong. Something is funny with the carb so I dropped that off at MOFOCO to get tested and see what the deal with the electric choke is, and in the mean time I'm trying to track down a new master as mine is leaking like a siv. Also having problems with the front end binding still not positive what the deal is, regreased the link pins and its way better but possibly still a tad too tight.

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For the lowered guys, when you jack the car up how do you prevent the long tierod from bending under the weight of the wheels / suspension hanging down? Tierods are flipped and when the car is jacked up all the weight of the suspension is hanging from the long tierod hitting the pan? I gotta redo my toe alignment again because of it.

pOrk · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 7:20 pm Post subject:

I wanna go lower still, going to drive it like this for awhile and work out the bugs. Its running a little funny and stopping a little funny so it wont be on the road till tuesday or so Smile

Nobody seems to be watching this thread, so I'll quit bugging you with my noobness and get this car on the road. Soon to the alignment shop, then start putting on the miles.

CLASSIC CAR GUY · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 9:35 pm Post subject:

it was a nice looking car when it was stock, now after 46ys of surviving countless obsticles, its now lowered and slammed starting its slow death, but hey good luck with it.. Cool

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touchdowntodd · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 9:43 pm Post subject:

CLASSIC CAR GUY · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 10:10 pm Post subject:

not that i dont like them lowered, just some cars that look pretty good,solid and close to orig and not hacked up its nice to see them left stock, and that car looked pretty sweet. I have a few of mine lowered,, hot rodded and such but they were cars that were either rolling shells i started with or a rough driver that somebody started a half ass job on already. Now we all know that every time we ever hear "theres nothing done to it that cant be undone", never and I mean never ever goes back to stock we all know this, there might be the occasional resto of an older modded one but brought back to its original glory, but thats rare and few and far between.
Good ones untouched are getting harder to find thats basically what i meant.
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touchdowntodd · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 10:15 pm Post subject:

understood and agreed with ... and his wasnt an untouched bug... mine however, has been its whole life.. but is rough and i dont feel bad about lowering it a little (not as far as erics), and maybe a few minor mods
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Aynthm · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 11:41 pm Post subject:

I saw one so low on craig's list that the running boards were almost ground down to nothing. Never could understand it.
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EverettB · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 11:46 pm Post subject:

pOrk · Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 6:55 am Post subject:

Different strokes for different folks, as they say. This car has some very odd things done to it before I got it, I plan on making them right but lowered is the look I love. Its got almost 3 inches of ground clearance so more then enough, heck my daily driver has 5.5 inchs and its factory height. Nothing wrong with that imo

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