Hi Guys, Still picking at it in my spare time. I have gotten into a few things with it lately, first off ....I couldnt get the car where I wanted with the ride heigth so I purchased a set of s10 2 inch drop spindles for the front. I was looking for a 1 inch differance between the front and rear of the car so its just slightly raked front to back. Kept the stock uncut 4 cyl with a/c front springs.
As usual, that raised another problem,
it then needed more clearance at the front of the fender to tire when turning the wheels. I could have not had too much problem if I would have used a skinny low profile tire in the front, but it just doesnt fit this cars look car in my opinion. I am back to a 235/45/17 in the front on a 17x7 rim with 4 inch backspace. In my opinion, you need 4.5 backspace on a 7 inch rim in the front on a vega, dont make the same mistake I have! Its way more expensive to make the wrong offset/backspace rims work then it is to buy the right one..lol
. In my case though, the rims are not available with more then 4 inch backspace unless custom ordered, which was way,way more expensive.
So...I accomplished solving this snag by narrowing the front track width by 1 inch on each side. I was able to easily fab this up on the lower control arms with much the same procedure some have done here already,using a balljoint sleeve and welding it into the lower control arm. Then installed s10 balljoints instead of using the taper adaptors on the vega/monza balljoints. The uppers can also be done by sectioning the control arm and then rewelding it back together... But.... I then saw Justin from Overkill cars was making the new econo style tubular control arms, so I had him make me a set of them 1" narrower then stock but with 2.5 degrees of caster built in.( You did a nice job on them Justin!) Seeing how you can see my upper control arms because I removed the front inner fenders, this was a good choice, they look really clean on the car.
Lastly, I have also gotten the placement of the twin t4 turbos set up, there was alot to consider all the tubing needed to run twins and get it all in a vega engine bay with a big block hogging up the space. Alot of time sitting on a stool and moving them around,mocking them up and seeing if you can fit all the inlet 3" diameter pipe around and still have a hood on the car when done. I am confident I will be able to run 3.5" outlet pipes and run them back and under the car for the exhaust. They will exit down near where the don hardy header tubes go down thru the floor brace to front frame section. I am sure I will need to notch that brace and gusset it up to clear the 3.5 exh. pipes. Where they will exit under the car remains undecided yet. I may use oval tubing to get some kind of ground clearance becasue of how low the car is. Ants may need to duck on the road....LOL!!
I need to get some pics uploaded, sorry I know I have been slacking on that.
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1972 hatchback, 28,000 orig miles, 427BBC/twin T4 turbo's/T56 six speed/big wheels, lowered down pro touring style-work in progress....
1973 vega wagon-under the blue flame knife.