American Boy

Hi,

I work the last two days outside with some snow and wind. :rolleyes: So I tought I would post some pics of my front suspension work.

I lowered the front by about 1 inch. After reading the Vette Improvement Program, they got me to cut my coils. I cut one coil from the open space end (the top). It's suppose to get the spring rate 20% higher over stock. And the overall height from the fender is now 26.5 inches. That's with 0.5 inch smaller overall tire diameter 255/45 r17.

Tomorow I'll adjust the rear height with some 8 inches bolts.

And thanks to Norval, I drill my upper control arm to gain caster. My car has a nasty habbit to follow the imperfection of the road. That problem appeared when I installed the 17 inch wheels. So I hope that it will be solve.

Stephan






[Modified by American Boy, 4:21 PM 4/6/2004]

78 Vette

My vette dose the same. I was considering doing the same thing with the caster. I looks nice lowered in the front did mine about a year ago.

stingraymaniac

looks great!!
i shall do that this weekend!
my car is way to high now :steering:

73 Vet

Your car looks great! Can you explain how/where to "drill the upper control arm"? Does the lower picture have anything to do with that?

Thank you!

American Boy

Thanks all, It's good to hear after freezing my butt outside. :D



Note that the upper control arm is upside down. I drill two hole toward the front of the car so that when I bolted it on the car through these new hole, the control arm would stand toward the rear of the car. That increase the caster angle. I drill them 3/8 inch center to center of the old hole.

Stephan


[Modified by American Boy, 8:20 PM 4/6/2004]