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Lookin' good! I can appreciate the "I did it myself" approach....

LOL the stuck cone is cracking me up..

Nice work on the build.

Some other goodies that will be making it on to the car during this upgrade:
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/2813/70299993.jpg

Spent most of Sunday making this front crossmember:
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2656/24676371.jpg

Springs pockets modified to accept LCAs:
http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/2998/41610014.jpg

Mocking up the watts frame. The mounting points for the coilovers will be built off of this:
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/4895/80822698.jpg

Front crossmember finished!
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/8677/11904916.jpg

All and all, about where I wanted to be at the end of this weekend.

:lol:

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Originally Posted by LM7_67 (Post 377206)

So I guess it's time to post the driving impressions. First, I'm definitely happy with the changes I made to the shock valving. By lessening the damping under high-speed shock travel, bumps and jolts no longer upset the car, and as a pleasant addition, it's smoother for street-driving as well. I used the same rate springs and low-speed shock valving as before so the car feels the same in those regards. However, as has been discussed, the splined sway bar does not clear the balancer. I have a couple ideas to get that to work but that'll be a project for another day. Running the Hotchkis bar for now. Also, due to the larger sump on the Autokraft oil pan, the inner tie rod ends have limited clearance. So between the sway bar and oil pan, I have basically the same turning radius as I had before :doh: . Oh well, things to be sorted out. Too many upcoming events to worry about those now.

Oh yeah, picked up a straggler from the Super Chevy Show AutoX...

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6963/75542870.jpg

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6931/76336395.jpg

Didn't find it til days after the event...

Oh...I thought that was some new fangled brake ducting kit that you had there..:lol:

Mid-week update. Not much has happened in the past 8 days as I spent the weekend skiing in Utah.

This is a great sight. Still a bunch more to do, but I can see the end now. Hopefully most everything will be wrapped up after this weekend.
http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/6470/61313447.jpg

Spent a lot of time creating this before I cut the first piece of metal. I can't take credit for the housing/carrier though; found those online.
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5304/sw4l.jpg

what are the lengths of your LCA's? and what did you use for spacers in the Spring pocket? I think we're both building the same rear suspension setup but I'm a few months behind you. lol Great work BTW :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by arue333 (Post 398670)

Front pivot to axle center line is 25". Spacers are just steel tube welded in.

Picked up the last of the real hardware today.

These should be a good starting point.
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/1332/78536629.jpg

I thought this was heavy. Would not want to pick up an iron one.
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4352/55230663.jpg

what are the rear brakes?

Tonny

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Originally Posted by tgvettes (Post 399173)

what are the rear brakes?

Tonny

base C6 from Kore3 with the parking brake

Go Tom... Go Tom.... you can do it! Tick Tock, Tick Tock... get it done I want to see ya at the RTTC event.

Good luck, looks good