Continuing to wait on a few more parts to arrive, so I took some time to get some of the suspension bits assembled.
Pressed out all of the old polyurethane bushings and now installing for evaluation a spherical bearing kit for the factory control arms from a shop up in Canada.
Spherical bearings within the press-in sleeves:
I’ve run into a couple snags with some of the parts in the kit, shot some feedback to them to get those bits resolved instead of having to machine my own solutions, and hopefully we’ll get things sorted out. Nevertheless, the majority of the kit is installed and ready to rock.
Also going into the arms are Bauer extended lower ball joints and V8Roadsters rebuildable front upper ball joints:
Finally, I’m replacing the rear upper arms with V8R’s tubular Pro series arms. Feedback from Steve about what they’ve seen on other cars, the rear upper arms are the ones responsible for wheel hop and other funkiness when putting big power down as that factory arm twists with enough torque. The tubular arm solves this, and the pro series has spherical bearings to match the rest of my arms.
Oh, and in my recent powdercoating frenzy I had all the factory arms done.
