My new Rear Coilover kit

[CKEITH]

Re: My new Rear Coilover kit

certainly looks easy enough to make a copy of. What's wrong w/ it?

i agree w/ mike. let's talk about the goods and the bads.. make the bads good and duplicate them. i would imagine the community could possible benefit if these were available.

 

[warmpancakes]

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i agree w/ mike. let's talk about the goods and the bads.. make the bads good and duplicate them. i would imagine the community could possible benefit if these were available.

Bads
arms too short
front mounting point of the arms
doesnt have 360 degrees around the axle

 

[MikeRenz]

Re: My new Rear Coilover kit

Bads
arms too short
front mounting point of the arms
doesnt have 360 degrees around the axle

sounds fixable.

Are these brackets to be welded to the axle? Does the non-360 degree really matter? If the brackets were complete circles, would we be able to slide them onto the sy axles? If so i could definitely make the brackets complete circles.

 

[MikeRenz]

Re: My new Rear Coilover kit

The ty rear end is about 1 1/4" further back.

i thought it was the Sy with the longer rear end

 

[CKEITH]

Re: My new Rear Coilover kit

sounds fixable.

Are these brackets to be welded to the axle? Does the non-360 degree really matter? If the brackets were complete circles, would we be able to slide them onto the sy axles? If so i could definitely make the brackets complete circles.

the brake flanges @ the end of the axles won't allow them to just slide on. but they could be made in 2 pieces and welded together once installed. the flange or axle tube will break before a good weld will.

 

[warmpancakes]

Re: My new Rear Coilover kit

sounds fixable.

Are these brackets to be welded to the axle? Does the non-360 degree really matter? If the brackets were complete circles, would we be able to slide them onto the sy axles? If so i could definitely make the brackets complete circles.

just order a kit from comp engineering or s@w race cars alot cheaper and better quality you will need to cut the axle flanges off, but there is no point in doing all this on the 7.5 rear diff if you are making enough power that the rear susp doesnt "work" anymore you need a 8.5 rear diff

 

[MikeRenz]

Re: My new Rear Coilover kit

Comp Engineering Kit (from jegs anyway)

$206 ladder bar setup

$911 kit

so this kit is a weld-on complete 360...so i can easily make the back piece to the bracket. So that solves 1 'bad' :lol: As for ladder length...thats another story.

Anyone have pics of this kit installed?

 

[warmpancakes]

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working on it, thats why I needed the height measurements

 

[MikeRenz]

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working on it, thats why I needed the height measurements

which kit are you using?

 

[dgoodhue]

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opcorn2:

 

[warmpancakes]

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which kit are you using?

S and W and some stuff from Skinny Kid and some home made crap 2 lizzard tails. mostly smoke and mirrors

 

[BigBadSmoosh]

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S and W and some stuff from Skinny Kid and some home made crap 2 lizzard tails. mostly smoke and mirrors

don't forget the newts eye..


my college roommate designed race suspensions for a vintage racing company, he has offered to hook me up with a rear setup, unfortunately neither one of us has the time or the money to do so.. someday.. someday..

 

[warmpancakes]

Re: My new Rear Coilover kit

sell that BMW and build it sissy

 

[BigBadSmoosh]

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sell that BMW and build it sissy

then the gf won't have anything to drive, and she won't be able to work.. I need her to work, who else is going to pay for the food and random things.

yes, i purchased a car just for my gf to drive.

 

[MRKING]

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Heres a couple pics marty sent of what it all looks like together .The syborg doesnt look magazine ready in those pics :lol:.. I am kinda glad my set didnt come with that panhard bar :barf:

 

[mattw]

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Heres a couple pics marty sent of what it all looks like together .The syborg doesnt look magazine ready in those pics :lol:.. I am kinda glad my set didnt come with that panhard bar :barf:

So what do you plan to use for a panhard bar?


-Matt

 

[MRKING]

Re: My new Rear Coilover kit

I am looking at something like these .

Suicidedoors dot com

Air Ride Technologies

I would prefer a panhard kit that has poly bushings instead of the rod ends like this edelbrock one .

 

[warmpancakes]

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I


I would prefer a panhard kit that has poly bushings instead of the rod ends like this edelbrock one .

look at s@w race cars they have one and they will be 1/2 the price and twice the quality

 

[fivetodrive]

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I know this post is over a year old so I wonder, has anyone installed the competetion engineering setup mentioned? I am looking through tons of posts trying to figure out what to do with my rear setup...

 

[NecroWolf]

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now i want to buy a tig welder so i can build one of these for my truck....you guys suck