Spent a few hours today working on the car to get this sucker in


Here's ye old junkyard 10 bolt minus the swaybar ready to be plucked from the car.


Ahh it's out and never to return!


Couple things I was very pleased to find was, my stock 82 oddball brake lines threaded right into the new brakes and Currie was nice enough to drill holes for the mounting brakes for the brakes in their stock locations.


By the time I got done messing with the torque arm it got dark but here it is installed minus the e-brake cables and 3rd member.


The torque arm was a bear to do because when Spohn welded those two plates on, they drew in and caused the opening to be smaller than stock. I had problems getting that on the stock rear too but a hammer and grinder fixed it this time


Going to be rebuilding the 3rd member next week, found some bad parts in it last night, I would be driving the car right now if it wasn't for that. Ah well... Overall I'm very happy with how things went together. Very easy to put the rear together and stuff it in the car

 

good work and nice pics

what muffler are you running?

how do you manage smog tests given your state of residence?

 

Man that looks awesome! I'm jealous now. Keep it up

 

Looks sharp. Make me want to break out the welder and mount the pads on the 9 I have. Could you get closer a pic of the tq arm mounting from the other side when you have the time?

 

well done.

 

sounds like it was pretty much just a bolt in swap then cool

 

Sure I might dive under the car again today so I'll take some more pics.


The muffler is a 3" in and out Spintech Pro Shootout, basicly their race muffler. Going to change the exhaust around sometime this year though, let the engine breath easier. Smog tests? uhhh no comment

 

SSC, hope this is kinda what you're looking for, sorry for the blurry one lol.

 

Thanks those are exactly what I was looking for. :yourock:

Now its time for the fun part, Ive been saving a trashed 4thgen rear for just such a project and since the 9in posi 4.11 axle my dad gave me from a 68 Tbird will actually fit without getting too involved .

 

um , cool , but bad idea. I do not reccomend doing it that way . You shoulda put the third member in when the rear end was outta the car. The third member is heavy and it bolts need to be torqued and if you have all that stuff on there its gonna be a pain in the butt to put it in. It looks good but when i did mine i put everything together and then put the rear end in . I dont think its possible or very easy if it is to change the third member while its in the car b/c doesnt the springs push everthing up so it doesnt sit right, and then the torque arm is in the way .????

 

i agree with nolan, that thing weighs a ton!


I just got my nine inch install done yesterday and it kicks ***! look for my post about it above.

 

Torque arm is easy to unbolt and move out of the way, 3 bolts and it's out. Yeah the third member is heavy but that's what jacks are for Besides, if I'm going to get a second third member to switch from highway gears to this set, I need to do it like this anyway. No way I'm going to pull the whole rear end out each time I want to swap gears.

 

LMAO...I just finished fabbing up my disc brake set-up onto my 9" and finally got it painted today. Would've been all done, but still waiting on my 3rd member...this whole rear end thing left me with a bad taste in my mouth, but that's another story in itself.

We were all laughing at how much this thing weighs, usually 1 guy can whip around a typical 9" housing especially minus center section pretty easy, not this thing After seein the top pics, I do see Moser over kills their torque arm mount for these things Probably 30lbs right there. Waiting on 3rd member and getting my braided brake lines tomorrow, once that's all on I'll have to snap some pics too to keep up with you guys

Aside from having to grind the snot out of the caliper mounting brackets...the brackets themselves are set-up for 3" axle tubes and drum brake backing plates, and this caem with the big bearing ends welded on the tube, so I had to grind alot out to get the caliper bracket to wrap around the bearing housing and then grind ALOT more out so it'd get the pads 100% over the rotor. Aside from that went pretty good.

Definately going to wait until it's all built before installation, these things are akward enough installing the center sections so it'll wait until it's 100% ready to go in. Drilled and tapped a hole in the bottom for draining and am thinkning about installing a fill spout on it also.