Norwood

[FETorino]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

Yea I should have gone with a ride "height" joke

Seig

Cough it up what is your secret other than that huge stainless rod.

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by FETorino

Yea I should have gone with a ride "height" joke

Seig

Cough it up what is your secret other than that huge stainless rod.

You meant ride short, right?

The objective is to leisurely achieve proper geometry and retain semi-stock appearance.

[Sieg]

Sorry for the delay on details, I just got back from a hunting trip with my son out in the Oregon high desert.


Here's my tenative plan to be enacted as time and money allow. Strip the recently acquired subframe assembly down to the bare frame and clean it and detail the slop from the factory welds. Acquire the factory dimensions and straighten as required.

The current vision is to install a SpeedTech Chicane kit, SpeedTech upper and lower arms, RideTech single adjustable shocks, AFX tall spindles, new tie-rod ends with SpeedTech sleeves, and use the Hotchkis tubular sway bar that came with the subframe. Then I'll have the frame media blasted and powder coated or paint with POR or equivalent, I'm leaning to POR at this time.

I'd appreciate hearing the pro's and con's of this plan as I have no first hand experience with those components.

I'll also have for sale a relatively new stock steering box, upper and lower control arms, cross member, Wilwood 4 piston calipers, pads, hubs, and rotors, and Hotchkis lowered big-block springs. I'll have more details when I get it disassembled since I received the subframe a couple hours before I left town on Thursday.

Thanks

[Vegas69]

Who cares about the car, what varmints are you plucking?

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

Who cares about the car, what varmints are you plucking?

If you look at 2 o'clock and 6' from my dogs head in this shot you'll see one:
http://sieg.smugmug.com/Other/Paisle...O/IMAG2238.jpg

[Vegas69]

I give... An old fat guy and a wore out truck?

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

I give... An old fat guy and a wore out truck?

Deviation of a Belding Squirrel that invade the alfalfa pivots. On a good day the 5 of us will shoot 600-900 rounds per day per man. Typical yardage is 75-200 with .17 HMR and 100-450 for center fire, typically .17 Fireball, .204 Ruger, and .223.

This was the last shoot of the year. I've been going twice a year for going on 20 years now.

Car time now!

[Vegas69]

That sounds like a blast. My Dad just went out to Western Nebraska to shoot some prarie dogs.

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by Sieg

Here's my tenative plan to be enacted as time and money allow. Strip the recently acquired subframe assembly down to the bare frame and clean it and detail the slop from the factory welds. Acquire the factory dimensions and straighten as required.

The current vision is to install a SpeedTech Chicane kit, SpeedTech upper and lower arms, RideTech single adjustable shocks, AFX tall spindles, new tie-rod ends with SpeedTech sleeves, and use the Hotchkis tubular sway bar that came with the subframe. Then I'll have the frame media blasted and powder coated or paint with POR or equivalent, I'm leaning to POR at this time.

I'd appreciate hearing the pro's and con's of this plan as I have no first hand experience with those components.

I'll also have for sale a relatively new stock steering box, upper and lower control arms, cross member, Wilwood 4 piston calipers, pads, hubs, and rotors, and Hotchkis lowered big-block springs. I'll have more details when I get it disassembled since I received the subframe a couple hours before I left town on Thursday.

Thanks

One possible deviation to this plan would be using SPC upper arms instead of SpeedTech. Would the adjustability the SPC's offer be worthwhile?

[Roberts68]

Sieg,
I have spent a great deal of time waffling back/forth between Speedtech and Spc Upper control arms. Disclaimer, I have no experience with either... only what I have read or has been discussed and recommended to me.

As for the Speedtechs, Roger at Speedtech told me that with the Tall Spindle I would want the flatter High Clearance uppers they make as opposed to the standard ones. That might be something you want to check on directly.

Question, where did you get your coated U-bolts and are they 1/2 or 7/16?

Nice! Father/Son trigger time is the best!