Finally after months of tearing the car apart, something finally got bolted back on.
The front suspension is back on the car and the garbage man picked up the masive pile of boxes today.
Pretty much a complete Sc&c package. SPC uppers and lowers with tall ball joints, Eibach springs, Hellwig sway bar and I went with viking shocks. A GN power steering box also went back on the car.
On to the rear of the car. I had wilwoods on the rear, but they didn't match the new Baer's up front and honestly I didn't think they were as nice as the Baer's. So, I had to buy Baer SS4 rear brakes. They also gave me a parking brake (that the wilwoods didn't have). Those will be useful down the road when I swap in a 6 speed.
The new brakes required a different brake standoff than what I had. My old axles had 5/8 studs also and were used when I got them, so I bought new ones. "While I'm at it" I went ahead and bought a 35 spline detroit truetrac to replace my spool. Waiting on a new set of ring gear bolts to put it back together. A transbrake and 15lbs. of boost can do neat things to ring gear bolts.
I have a matching hellwig rear sway bar to go on the rearend, but my old drag race anti-roll bar required a lot of bracing under rear end that had to be cut off. (Compare to pic below)
Since I was doing so much rearend work I decided it would be easiest to pull it out. I was also going from trunk mounted fuel cell to a stock fuel tank. The previous owner of the car had put a lot of extra bars under the back of the car to prevent buckling the quarter panels. A common problem on these cars when drag raced. Some of it wasn't as nice as I would have liked and in my opinion most of the bars were doing nothing but adding weight. Rearend is out of the car so "while I'm at it" I might as well ditch all that extra tubing.
Before
After 4 sawzall blades, two 4.5" cut off wheels and 6 24 grit grinding discs. There are still two stubs hanging from the upper control arm crossmember that I cannot get off now. I may hot wrench them off when the interior is out down the road.