MopaR&D
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Hole is cut
While you're buying things on sale from PST you may as well get some bilsteins while you're at it.Hey Tim, pics are up now you see 'em?
Next mod I will be doing is adjustable strut rods. The drivers side has always had an annoying clunk and pulls to the left under hard braking. I am also going to fab and weld some stiffening plates to the lower control arms as they are pretty flimsy especially at the T-bar socket end which I think is where my clunk is coming from. I'll be placing the order with PST as soon as their Black Friday sale starts, getting some other goodies for my cousin's '71 Satellite build too. Heck I might bite the bullet and get some "mid-grade" shocks like KYBs too, the blown out Monroes on it now are a total joke and barely lasted a year after I put them in. I ultimately want to put in a set of fully adjustable Viking shocks but those run $800+ and I definitely don't have that kind of money right now.
While you're buying things on sale from PST you may as well get some bilsteins while you're at it.
I can't say with experience between KYB's and Bilsteins since I've never had either but from what I've heard from multiple people I'd skip the KYB's.Hey Caleb! I thought about that, I'm going to buy a set of Bilsteins for my cousin's Satellite but for my car I don't want to drop any serious money on a set of shocks unless they're adjustable. You can get a full set of KYB's off RockAuto for around $120 as opposed to $400 for the Bilsteins; more than Monroes but they aren't crap. My car needs some dang sway bars the most of anything really, and the back end still sits too high for cornering the car feels "out of balance" in a way in hard turns. So much to improve and so little $$$$!! LOL... Oh yeah and then there's the fact I'm running fat 60-series tires on 15" rims and even care about handling
Watch KYB'S measurements! Sold them for a few years .. Great product , but if you do chassis mods , those measurements might limit your gains in performance.Hey Caleb! I thought about that, I'm going to buy a set of Bilsteins for my cousin's Satellite but for my car I don't want to drop any serious money on a set of shocks unless they're adjustable. You can get a full set of KYB's off RockAuto for around $120 as opposed to $400 for the Bilsteins; more than Monroes but they aren't crap. My car needs some dang sway bars the most of anything really, and the back end still sits too high for cornering the car feels "out of balance" in a way in hard turns. So much to improve and so little $$$$!! LOL... Oh yeah and then there's the fact I'm running fat 60-series tires on 15" rims and even care about handling
Watch KYB'S measurements! Sold them for a few years .. Great product , but if you do chassis mods , those measurements might limit your gains in performance.
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How does that carb come apart?I also bought and installed a new 750 cfm Street Demon carb. I only had to pull the carb about 6 times to get the jetting dialed in but other than that it's been great. Much better manners than my old AFB especially in cold weather. I no longer need the old dual-snorkel air cleaner with the heat-riser intake setup to keep it from freezing up even though I have an Air-Gap intake. Gas mileage is down a bit though which I knew would happen with the larger primaries this carb has. As you can see in the pics I also went ahead and converted to a full Lokar throttle and kickdown cable setup; that was more of a pain than it should have been (interference at the trans end for the KD) but it all works great now and the shift points/kickdown is much easier and precise to adjust.
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How does that carb come apart?