90-percent
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I'm street rodding a 68 basketcase coupe. I'm looking for all popular and proven mods to make the engineering aspects more "right". For example - on the lower front A-arms, I welded a strip of steel from one side of the bushing hole to the other. I remember this from a 25 year old article about Guldstrand mod tips.
So I have the following questions:
1. What are the mods to stock trailing arms for better e-brake cable angles?
2. Same for brake line mounting on trailing arm.
3. Any proven mods to upper front A-arms?
4. Proven chassis triangulations 1-1/2 O.D. by .125" wall round tubing placements and bends?
5. rear crossmember- any replacement stuff or alternate engineering for those big rubber biscuits? I acquired a spare cross member to experiment with - my first step was to remove those rubber bushings.
6. gussets all over the place on the frame - engine mounts, a-arm mounts, etc.
7. front spreader bar - instead of mounting the bracket to hold the heim joints through the bolt holes, I'd rather weld the bracketry right on to the bushing shaft. There will probably be an elec fan set up for more clearance, and I'm against engine driven fans anyway, so there should be ample clearance.
I'm on a tight budget and don't have the bank account to do all that steeroids and transverse carbon fiber springs and tubular a arms and all that stuff. I prefer to mod the stock stuf. Going polyurethane replacement bushings as much as possible.
I'd appreciate all you guys doing all my engineering and design work for me as much as possible. That's what the internet was invented for, wasn't it?
Thanks!
-90% Jimmy
:yahoo:
So I have the following questions:
1. What are the mods to stock trailing arms for better e-brake cable angles?
2. Same for brake line mounting on trailing arm.
3. Any proven mods to upper front A-arms?
4. Proven chassis triangulations 1-1/2 O.D. by .125" wall round tubing placements and bends?
5. rear crossmember- any replacement stuff or alternate engineering for those big rubber biscuits? I acquired a spare cross member to experiment with - my first step was to remove those rubber bushings.
6. gussets all over the place on the frame - engine mounts, a-arm mounts, etc.
7. front spreader bar - instead of mounting the bracket to hold the heim joints through the bolt holes, I'd rather weld the bracketry right on to the bushing shaft. There will probably be an elec fan set up for more clearance, and I'm against engine driven fans anyway, so there should be ample clearance.
I'm on a tight budget and don't have the bank account to do all that steeroids and transverse carbon fiber springs and tubular a arms and all that stuff. I prefer to mod the stock stuf. Going polyurethane replacement bushings as much as possible.
I'd appreciate all you guys doing all my engineering and design work for me as much as possible. That's what the internet was invented for, wasn't it?
Thanks!
-90% Jimmy
:yahoo: