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Wile E. Coyote Jr. said:

Heim joints will only make a difference if you are genuinely track racing your car.

Going to heims on the street is a good way to have the most uncomfortable, ungodly ride you'll ever experience. First hand experience from driving my buddies SN95 drift car.

I still have stock bushings everywhere on my car, save for the differential and the knuckles. And I throw my car into a drift at 80mph. They feel just fine.

I like the enthusiasm. But dont do that to a street car. Keep to the poly bushings from SCP if anything.

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I just went to scp to see the prices and god damn! 130$! I had them a while back and honestly hated them plus they didn’t last more than a year. And they still didn’t give me the feel I was looking for. Currently running SCP stock style bushings which to me suck cheecks.
As it is the ride is pretty knarly, I’m running 18” saleen on 275/40/18. Full delrin in rear with solid irs mounts and I can feel like the front wheels move around too much when hitting pot holes, I just can’t stand it! I wouldn’t mind it the NVH was a bit more than it is now except if it actually handled well.

I found that qa1 sells ball joints needed for making a custom control arm I just don’t know which one would fit our lower spindle.I’d really like to go forward with thisas I have access to fabricators at my job and I’m sure they can do this. Just need all material and a jig of our stock arms. I’d even scratch the idea of heims and go for bushes sleeves on the ends. I recently seen this joints called Johnny joints that supposedly are better than heims

I see what you mean, there’s plenty of cars that have this setup, the last gen GTO has strut rod aswell so it can’t be that bad. LA roads are horrible and the constant braking and rough terrain wears these suckers out quickly specially at almost 4000lbs haha. I highly dislike the idea of constantly changing these out tho. It seems like the easiest idea is to just make a heim strut rod. Similar to how the 60’s mustangs have readily available and a couple fellow members on the forum have done. Seems easier than making a whole arm.



I also plan on getting this other project on the road soon, I’ve been talking about it but it’s time to handle this scandle. Let me know what you think, it’s an X brace for the shock towers. I’m planning on using square tube maybe .083, .120 starts getting heavy heavy. Keeping the strut bar and tying it to just above where package tray.

I will say I’ve noticed how the new cars, mustangs in particular have the shocks double bolted to the frame rails. I’m assuming it’s to control the shocks pulling and pushing a forces. Which I’m assuming the x brace will help by keeping that area stable.

Good morning in the morning fantastic news!! They replied to my email. The only thing is, I don’t have a strut rod on hand or a Kmember to measure the hole where the rod mounts.




Now what I can’t do is, call the guy to explain because I’m a blathering Buffon and will completly forget some details he’d want. So if somebody here, who is much more eloquent than myself can contact the owner and explain to him what the deal is that would be great. I would be able to hit the junkyard next weekend to snag a strut rod and bushing to send over to him. Or if somebody has one on hand and can send it over to him, I’d gladly help pay shipping. I’d really love to get the ball rolling on this. Any takers? I’d say one of you OG’s in the bird game should call em up since you guys have a lot more knowledge on the matter than myself.