My 69 Project

Heres my project i started this year with alot more still to do.
heres how it use to look




And all ive done so far









































































HOW IT SITS RIGHT NOW

looking great :thumbs:

Sweet! I'm surprised you have any meat left on those tires!

Very nice.....any mustangs ever want to play??? :lol:

Looking good but IMO you need to cut a coil on the front and get some longer bolts for the rear. It's sitting a tad high.

I was thinking the same, it's sitting a little high. Maybe the suspension is going to settle once you drive it more, what springs did you install?

I LIKE! Any pictures of the diff area to see how the spring, shafts and T/A are lining up? Is the objective, drive shaft straight/parallel when under acceleration?

Thanks Andy

SmokinBBC said:

Sweet! I'm surprised you have any meat left on those tires!

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Everything is new,havent had a chance to burn the tread off

damoroso said:

Very nice.....any mustangs ever want to play??? :lol:

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No,everybody looks at the car but no takers

Twin_Turbo said:

Looking good but IMO you need to cut a coil on the front and get some longer bolts for the rear. It's sitting a tad high.

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I did lower the rear this past weekend and it does look a little better.The pics were taken on the day i took the car out for a test drive.

MYBAD79 said:

I was thinking the same, it's sitting a little high. Maybe the suspension is going to settle once you drive it more, what springs did you install?

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I have leaf spring,i bought new from eklers about 10 years ago.it was stock replacement i think.

AColbe01 said:

I LIKE! Any pictures of the diff area to see how the spring, shafts and T/A are lining up? Is the objective, drive shaft straight/parallel when under acceleration?

Thanks Andy

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Andy no pics of rear yet,my rear drive axles are not straight across,they angle down to the wheels a little.I had the whole rear end and rear suspension totally redone about 10 years ago.I want to redo it again except i want toms rear and suspension put in it,i have been through 3 rears so far.

It looks like it has positive camber also

Billsvette said:

I have leaf spring,i bought new from eklers about 10 years ago.it was stock replacement i think.

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most aftermarket or re-arced springs require longer bolts, no big deal with your 18" rims... the end of the spring often gets very close to the bulky 15" tires when using longer bolts...

The half shafts should be almost parallel to the ground , the angle will improve when you use longer bolts and lower the rear :thumbs: