September 2001: My chevelle was wrecked.
November 2001: One last burnout before we took it apart piece by piece to replace the frame.
November 2006: IT'S ALIVE!!!!!
After 5 years of working on it, I spent the entire weekend behind the wheel. I am limited to daylight driving due to a lack of lights, but I still had a hell of a time. The frame sits below the center of the 17" cragars. The manual 12" disks stop it well. The 245/45/ZR17 turn lock to lock with the quick ratio box without hitting fenders or frame. The front and rear sway bars are 15/16" with Speedway 1000lb springs and screwjacks (the shorter ones only opened up 1/2") in the front and MOOG wagon springs in the rear. The bushings are all polygraphite but I dont know if they squeak or not because I cant hear anything over the noisy gear drive and open headers. I can tell its going to handle really well, it seems to hug corners like a slot car. I need an alignment though and I dont have any shocks. Which brings me to my question:
What shocks do y'all recomend? When I got this frame it had an old set of KYB Gas-A-Just on it. I might get another set of those or maybe Edelbrock or Koni. Anyone got something to say about this? I think I want something really stiff. I remember a magazine article that did a shock comparison on a Monte Carlo and they said that the IAS Edelbrock shock was better than the KYB b/c the KYB was too stiff, but I got 1000lb springs so I dont think too stiff will be a problem for me.
November 2001: One last burnout before we took it apart piece by piece to replace the frame.
November 2006: IT'S ALIVE!!!!!
After 5 years of working on it, I spent the entire weekend behind the wheel. I am limited to daylight driving due to a lack of lights, but I still had a hell of a time. The frame sits below the center of the 17" cragars. The manual 12" disks stop it well. The 245/45/ZR17 turn lock to lock with the quick ratio box without hitting fenders or frame. The front and rear sway bars are 15/16" with Speedway 1000lb springs and screwjacks (the shorter ones only opened up 1/2") in the front and MOOG wagon springs in the rear. The bushings are all polygraphite but I dont know if they squeak or not because I cant hear anything over the noisy gear drive and open headers. I can tell its going to handle really well, it seems to hug corners like a slot car. I need an alignment though and I dont have any shocks. Which brings me to my question:
What shocks do y'all recomend? When I got this frame it had an old set of KYB Gas-A-Just on it. I might get another set of those or maybe Edelbrock or Koni. Anyone got something to say about this? I think I want something really stiff. I remember a magazine article that did a shock comparison on a Monte Carlo and they said that the IAS Edelbrock shock was better than the KYB b/c the KYB was too stiff, but I got 1000lb springs so I dont think too stiff will be a problem for me.
