Hello,

Are there any good websites/books out there that you can reffer to me that will tell me what I have to do to my 89 Firebird's suspension before I take the stock 305 out and put a 350 small block with over 300 HP in it's place? I know I have to something because of the T-Roofs. I've read that that much HP can twist the frame or do something to it if nothing is done.

I also need a new rear end. Lots of play in the spider gears so I was thinking of replacing the whole thing as I want to put rear disc brakes on anyways. What a good rear end to go with?

Thanks for your help.
Take Care

-Ron

 

Ahhhhhhhh...you're on the GOOD website to tell you how to upgrade your suspension. First thing any F-bod needs is a quality set of subframe connectors... After that, you can set your car up for whatever kind of use your car sees, drags, autoX, street/strip, road race, drift, daily driver, etc...

For all your questions there are answers here, use the search button. It will take you some time to read through the posts, but it is time well spent.

As for you rearend, again, mainly depends on what you will be doing with the car and on how much power, ie abuse!!, it will see. For a street/strip car that is not seeing huge amounts of boost, nitrous, or high RPM launches with slicks, a rebuilt stock rearend will do nicely. And upgrading to rear dics!!!??? Do a search on rear disc brakes and you will have a library to read...Aftermarket rearends are nice, but they are expensive and possibly a major overkill, depending on what you are trying to do. Hope it helps...

Oh yeah, welcome to TGO...

 

This helps quite a bit. I will do a search and see what comes up. Thanks for the info on the rear end, it seems I may have been thinking overkill. I'll look into it.

Take Care
-Ron