65 Porsche w C5 Drive

[tjbruning]

diff mount should turn out great

[ironworks]

Hay jim if your gonna change to poly bushings mock them up now they are wider then the stock rubber ones. I learned the hard way. The are pretty cheap and allow you to rebuild the used arms. The balljoints are easy to push out also to powder coat the arms. Or anodize.....

Rodger

[novanutcase]

WOW!!!! Lot's of progress! Looking good Jim!

John

[Garage Dog 65]

Originally Posted by ironworks

Hay jim if your gonna change to poly bushings mock them up now they are wider then the stock rubber ones. I learned the hard way. The are pretty cheap and allow you to rebuild the used arms. The balljoints are easy to push out also to powder coat the arms. Or anodize.....

Rodger

Great info - Thanks ! I'll get them on order today before I weld up a mistake...

[ironworks]

The uppers are more important then the lowers.

[Garage Dog 65]

wow, after doing some research about types of bushings here - Vette Forum - and over on chevelles.com ..... I think I have brain stem swelling. Oh my aching brain pot.

Any other ideas folks ?

Energy Suspension

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku

Pfadt

http://www.pfadtracing.com/products/...&search=&page=

Vette Brakes

http://www.vbandp.com/detail.aspx?ID=770

Doesn't look like Global West makes stuff for the C5 system.

[Garage Dog 65]

Exhaust hangar grommets came in today.

5$ per 4 grommets pack purchased from Street Rods by Michael.

[ironworks]

The energy suspension ones do not come with inner sleeves and the stock ones are a pain to get out and the wrong size. Buy the others not the energy suspension ones.

[Garage Dog 65]

Looks like I'm going with the stock rubber bushings....

After 2 days of reading, there doesn't seem to be any consensus on any bushing type. A lot of discussions even had mixed types - Poly in upper and rubber in lower, etc.... cold flow, squeaking, binding, deflecting, deteriorating, grease – no grease, graphite – no graphite, too harsh -not harsh.

I guess I'll go with GM's research dollars and stay with the stock material. If it doesn’t work – I can spend the dollars later.

If I had gone poly - I would have chosen these:

http://www.pfadtracing.com/products/...&search=&page=

Maybe the problem is I read too much. Just do it !

[Garage Dog 65]

More parts coming in. This is from Ebay. Vette pedal assy.

I went to a car show this weekend here in IND and GM had a LS3 crate on display.... I can see how people get away from their budget. That is one awesome little package with a show price of 5K. That's very tempting.... Focus man - focus !