Hey guys,
I read these forums like crazy and finally bought a front end disk converstion for my 71 chevelle. I'm curious what you guys would recommend I replace on the front suspension while I have the car apart. I just got the car a few weeks ago and I'm thinking most things on the front of the car could use a good refresher. Recommended kits? I'd like to get everything and do this conversion at once. I'm waiting for the brakes to come right now. PS~I got my kit from http://www.mattsclassicbowties.com/

Might as well get new bushings for the control arms, new ball joints, maybe new springs if you want to. Also you could upgrade the steering stuff.

That is where I bought mine last year. Triple check your order when it arrives. They sent me one sway bar end link (not two) and mis-matched sway bar bushings. Check the p/n on the coil springs, make sure they are for your application, on the spring box, not there invoice. I orderd 80% of what I needed from them, picked up other stuff local. Change everything while you have it apart, IMO. I found some work that was not done right while pulling mine apart. Lower control arm bushings were changed at some point and were put in w/o a tack weld on the bushing, causing it to ware out. Other than that , everything worked out fine. They even added slotted/cross drilled rotors at no x-tra! I also changed the steering gear box with a quick ratio unit, which works fine. They didn't have a idler arm and I got that localy as well, just don't get the TRW one size fits all model, I have to change mine as it is rubbing on the sway bar.

Bushings, ball joints and springs, especially if they are original. Bigger sway bar than original maybe and possibly offset upper A-Arm cross shafts(frame sag not uncommon) to help with future alignments. Just a few suggestions. I wish I would have put in offsets when I had my sons apart because I now get to do it again. Pete

I did everything at once. Ordered my complete kit from Performance Suspension in Phoenix. Got (and had rebuilt) a quick ratio power steering box from a TransAM, switched to a 1 and 1/8 sway bar from a 7/8, replaced springs (with 1 inch, I think, drop springs). I had a disc set up from a 71 Chevelle. Get it done all at once, you'll know what you have, you'll know it's all done right, and you won't have to do it again for a long time.

Anyone use these?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Suspension-Kit-Chevelle-GTO-Cutlass-442-GS-1964-72_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33593QQitemZ26009668 2428QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW
or

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Energy-Suspension-3-18113G-Bushing-Kit-Chevy-Chevelle_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ46104QQitemZ32 0092988697QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWD1V

I think this is the kit others are talking about:
http://www.performancesuspension.com/

I don't know what I would do to the suspension, but I would definitely drain/clean the whole system and put new cylinders in the rear brakes. They're like $10 each, so there's no reason not to do it.