I have been working on this car off and on for way too long now. Unfortunately, it never seems to get finished. Partly because I either can't make up my mind or I keep changing my mind and the parts on the car. The car original had a full SVO brake and 5 lug conversion on it. WHY!? I had the parts and figured what the heck. The issue was that I wasn't able to make my that setup work with what I wanted to do wheel and flare wise. SO . . . . Now full on SN95 Cobra swap of the SVO parts. Yeah, Yeah, I know I'm an idiot! Oh well all the parts that are coming off will be put to good use on my real SVO. When you ask . . . Ok let's not get into that right now.
SN95 front spindles, SN95 front control arms, and Cobra brakes for the front. The rear is getting my other Cobra IRS, since I haven't suffered enough with the first IRS install in my 79 PC. Maximum Motorsports Bilsteins on all four corners with Coil Over setup to boot. I just replaced the subframe bushings, the third member bushings, and sway bar bushings in the IRS with poly urethane. I haven't done the upper and lower control arms yet because the kit runs about $500 and that kills the budget for the new catback exhaust that I need now since my SRA exhaust won't work. Besides I actually want to feel the different after making the swap on the control arm bushings, so I can convince myself to spend that same $$ again on my 79 PC with the IRS too!
The IRS swap is the biggest change for this build right now. I yanked all the solid rear axle stuff out to make room for the IRS. The first order of business is installing the modified rear brake lines for the IRS. I bought the MM kit as it makes things much easier and just under $100 its hard to want to spend the time and money bending your own lines and sourcing the parts. https://www.maximummotorsports.com/B...ang-P1608.aspx
Rear brake fitting removed and rear brake line awaiting kit
Maximum Motorsports kit (hard lines not shown right now)
Rear Union and bracket install on body
Next item to tackle is to knock off the no longer needed rear axle bump stop mounts. This also clears more room for the IRS rear brake hose mounts.
Rear axle bump stop mount
Bump Stop Removed
I find the quickest and easiest way is to drill out the spot weld on the side that you can get a drill on, then use a cut off wheel to cut the bottom of the bracket from the one side. Then I use an air hammer/chisel to drive the metal off the remaining spot weld. Use a hammer to knock the rest of the bracket loose, then use a pair of vise grips to work it back and forth to finally fatigue the remaining weld loose. Then just use an angle grinder to clean up the remaining spot welds.
The next order of business is to test fit the IRS to make sure the brake hose mounts don't hit the upper control arms. To do that I have to install the rear subframe mount. That uses the kicker shock mounting hardware and 2 additional bolts that go up through the bottom of the rear frame rail. So to begin with I test fit both rear SF mounts and mark the location of the holes on the bottom of the frame rails. I think drill my pilot holes for all 4 of them. Then I make a cut in the hatch floor so I can finish drill out the hole size and place the reinforcement plates in the frame rail.
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