Large portion of suspension replaced

This weekend my car got new shocks, springs, mounts, and control arm bushings. I figured when I was under it I would find more things to replace later, and I did. Needs endlinks and balljoints at least, probably get new motor mounts but they are lower priority, and then trailing arm bushings BAD. Here are some fun pictures.

I had a little help from my friend who has a shop with lift and all tools neccesary. He was the one who got the old C-arm bushings out and the new ones in (after flames, and a press)

Old C-arm bushing


It took an air hammer, air chisel, flames, etc to get it out. After got a tip from a friend to use a drill to remove more rubber, that seems like it might help as well.



Blurry but depressing- this is all my rear suspension consists of. sad day. Great design, chevy. /sarcasm

pretending I was a weightlifter from germany


Rears in


End height

 

Tokico blues good stuff.

 

They're nice so far... although I think I screwed up somehow and there is a little tinkly noise... the washer assumedly... grrr

 

oh hey so I got an early bday present! woot...


for fun, because racecar

 

Tokico Blues FTW. Had them on my DSM with their lowest spring setup (red), they do a VERY good job of matching their strut/spring combos. Even with the car 2.5" off the ground it handled very well and only found the bump stops once or twice in the 10k I put on them.

Out of curiosity, do you have a wideband or have access to a sniffer to make use of the S-AFC, or is it just a because racecar deal?

 

No wide band right now. I think this is more a test of if I can handle tuning type stuff... Or if its gonna drive me nuts lol ... So basically because racecar right now, and hopefully for reals racecar later

 

Yeej has a wideband for $150 on the facebooks... you should get it

 

You'll need it. The AFC just modulates the signal, tuning to any degree will require a wideband so you know what you're changing things to. Without it you're throwing darts in the dark, and blowing things up, while a valuable source of knowledge, is no proper way to learn.

 

What is yeej

 

A dude.

 

Spaz would know about stuff being blown up.

 

Widebands are nice, but I may throw some tint material over the face of mine, I don't care much for the bright lights.

 

That's why I got smoked face gauges. Also white/amber switchable on 12v signal, so they're wired into my lighting circuit.

 

I have an AEM UEGO with automatic light/dim detection, I've had it for years