~KnuckleDuster~

Installed the front sway bar. Haven't had a chance to test it out yet. 6 lbs heavier than the stock one! Contacting the frame rails on the side. Is this normal? I already have to add spacers in the rear now this with the front?!? I went with ST because they were so highly recommended but there's some little issues that I don't care for... Rear brake stuff is in, just waiting on paint & wheel studs now.

It looked way off before, the right rear always appeared to be slammed, even now with it adjusted all the way up it still looks a little low. If I lower the right front to help raise it then the front is too low and rubs the flare. I have a new set of sways to install, when I have everything disconnected Ill get some measurements.

Once I get some time Ill do some more in depth measuring and start a log. I appreciate everyone's input, I'll get some some measurements and report back!

That's good to know. Yeah most of the front suspension pieces have been neglected, I just recently got the car up and running right so my new focus is on the suspension and brakes (backwards I know!)

Just ordered the silver mine kit. Now I have to pay twice for the brake caliper paint, damn! Yeah your covers are nice and clean. In preparation for installing my tach adapter under the dash I decided to first remove the heater core, blower motor and most of the tubing. This stuff was alot heavier than I expected . Heater core 13lbs. blower motor and 8lbs, removing twenty one pounds of something that will never be used or missed, priceless. So much room for activities now..

I was planning on doing the same thing. Do you like them? Noticeable stopping power or just the benefit of being modern? Thanks, these cam covers are starting to stick out like a sore thumb though. I'm keeping my eye out for an extra set I can send to the powder coater.

So I've had the coolant lines re-routed since the beginning of the swap. Here in California you don't need coolant to warm up the throttle body and thus heat soak everything around it so I bypassed this. At the time I had a rubber line going across the top of the motor back down to the return. I had a left over turbo water line kit laying around and thought this could be nice way to re-route the coolant cleanly around the motor rather than over top of it. Here's a recent shot of the engine bay. When doing the rear diff swap I noticed the passenger side brake master cylinder was leaking and the rear brake reservoir was empty, so rather than spend the money to re-vamp the drums I'm going to go with the rear disc. swap

Ok that's not too bad if it comes to that.. Ill see what I can do. My free time is weird right now due to a new born but in some ways I feel like I have more time with the car (at least for now hah) What I mean by that is when I was adjusting the coilovers my goal was simply to raise the rear end up. That progressed into adjusting all of them of course and in order for the car to sit "level looking" while maintaining the proper fender gap the right rear coilover had to be set all the way up while the right front coilover was set all the way low, meanwhile the driver side of the car f&r was in the middle. Now I don't know anything about properly adjusting coilovers, this was my first car having this new found adjustability so I just moved one side up at a time chasing the proper height. It could be that my fender flares were installed half ass'ed, I'm attempting to make even fender gaps all around and maybe the fender flares are causing some of the problems although they look like there in the proper locations..

I have a good alignment shop in mind thats a couple hours away, they will corner balance the car too. Yeah I fear I'm going to drive all that way for them to tell me that my car is a POS and there's nothing they can do hah.

I will check to see what this would cost to check out, I can only imagine..nice old car comes in and these guys start seeing dollar signs. If the frame was tweaked I'm not even sure if I want to pay the money to straighten it out. Doesn't seem like a cheap fix. Maybe I just need to run a slightly longer spring in the front passenger side to raise the spring rate up a tad. The car still handles well enough for what I do with it. Only when really pushing the car to it's limits do I begin to notice the effects of this.

Ok here's the nasty. Looks like jack abuse directly to the floor to me. I can't find much evidence of previous accidents, just this beat up floor and frame rails. and strut tower tops for those interested