Author Topic: Installed new springs (Read 930 times)

KBMWRS · « **Reply #25 on:** November, 10, 2010, 09:30:19 AM »

Randy...frozen Snickers

Yes its Nightmist Blue

blu67 · « **Reply #26 on:** November, 11, 2010, 08:16:20 AM »

Nice work, guys.
Mike doesn't have his nose in the clouds anymore...

sigtauenus · « **Reply #27 on:** November, 11, 2010, 05:58:53 PM »

Looks really good. I have that on my to do list too.

cmayna · « **Reply #28 on:** November, 11, 2010, 06:01:50 PM »

Sam, what is the height of your front fenders as compared to the rear? This is the distance from the ground up through the axle to the highest point of the fender's opening? To me your front and rear look pretty much the same.

sigtauenus · « **Reply #29 on:** November, 11, 2010, 06:05:40 PM »

26 7/8" front and rear, car is pretty level. Gap on the rear is 1 3/4", front should be the same. I'd like to lower the car all the way around. I'm going to try the opentracker trick adding some leafs to the rear springs and cutting the coils up front.

cmayna · « **Reply #30 on:** November, 11, 2010, 06:13:03 PM »

Adding leafs to the rear? How is this suppose to lower the back side? What springs are you running back there?

AzPete · « **Reply #31 on:** November, 11, 2010, 06:17:26 PM »

He is talking of doing the upside down mounted leaves to flatten the newer leaves.

sigtauenus · « **Reply #32 on:** November, 11, 2010, 06:28:39 PM »

Right on Pete. Saw this trick in a post in Opentracker's forum.

cmayna · « **Reply #33 on:** November, 11, 2010, 06:46:51 PM »

Still, what are you running on the rear as far as leaf springs are concerned.

sigtauenus · « **Reply #34 on:** November, 12, 2010, 05:04:49 AM »

4 leaf heavy duty with a 1" lift. Back story on that is that my car used to sag really, really bad in the back. I had stock coil springs up front, and bought a set of new heavy duty springs for the back, and the rear still sagged significantly. This is back in say '94 time frame where the only advice I was getting on my car came from magazines, and one of the options I saw in an ad from Canadian Mustang was springs with different heights to them. At the time I figured my car is sitting low in the back, there's a spring option with 1" lift, I'll try that. It worked to level the car.