Long time no post.. This poor car gets hardly any love these days, shes an honest to god workhorse. Buuuuuuut

I decided to buy her something pretty in red. I went on a local forum and saw some UPR LCAs for 80 bucks. they were never installed on a car. i looked at the screename, and it ended up being my cousin lol. when he found out it was me buying them, he gave me another 20 off!

so i finally got one of the stockers out of the car today, go to put them in, but the bolt does not go through. Pete was saying its because tthey must be for a 94-98, and they used a smaller bolt for the LCAs

so now i need to either drill out the sleeve a few mm to get the new bolts to fit, or sell tthem and look for something else. the second part of that is pretty tempting, since these are the dual poly bushing ones, and ive read literally everywhere that one poly and one spherical is the real way to go for better handling.

but its not all bad news. My fron end has been making a lot of noise lately, and I was fairly certain it was the bearing. My cousin also had two old, but in good shape hubs from his old termi and just tossed em in with the LCAs for free. I'll probably be installing those soon too.

 

Glad to finally see an update. I've been looking at LCAs too. I have an AM gift card to spend, but still not sure which ones I want to go with.

 

Glad to see the Bullitt getting some attention as well!

 

Thanks guys

Nathan, are you more interested in straightline or carving them corners?

From everything ive read the poly/sphericals are the best for handling, but they make more noise (supposedly) than the dual poly ones. My understanding is that the dual polys are better than stock for their rigidity, but dont allow for the freedom of motion the spherical/poly combo ones do.

Im relly leaning towards selling these and getting some MM ones or maybe even those sweeeet aluminum steeda ones let me know whcih way u go (when the time arrives) and what u think of em

 

Both. I was leaning towards either the MM or middle priced J&Ms on AM. I'll probably get them in may when I have more time to install them. Have a MM STB that I bought back in '09 that I still need to put on too. Need to order a new set of bolts/nuts though. Original ones got lost in the garage.

 

Replaced the hubs today. While its not silent inside, the scary noises have definitely subsided Tracks better too.

But just to give you all an idea of what I was dealing with...

so... remember, when your hubs make noise, check them!!!!

Also, I called UPR up and asked how much the correct bushings for the LCAs were. When I told them they were for the red control arm, they said they don't make em for that arm any more and that all they'd do if I sent it in was drill it. So now I've gotta find a machine shop around here.

 

You should be dead. I've seen a lot of wheels fall off from failed hubs. Count your lucky stars!

 

that's a ridiculous amount of movement! wow man!

 

Completely unrelated but why do you A.) Never listen to your voicemails and B.) Never empty your voicemail box? We need to figure out when you're coming down for my 21st.

 

Because voicemails are a thing of the past and they're too much work. and I don't want to pay for visual voicemail lol

Also I was gonna come bug you Saturday

 

Perfect. You should just set up a Google voice account. :-p

 

i must be getting old to not be keeping up with new stuff... whats visual voicemail?

I ask because I too hate voicemails, I do not listen to them they are much too much work to retrieve.

 

Visual Voicemail gives you a graphical interface to see who called you/how long the message was/etc. It's kind of nifty, and if you have an Android or an iPhone you can download Google Voice, attach it to your phone number and have the service for free. It just attaches to your gmail account and you can listen to your messages on your computer and set it up to text you what it believes your voicemail said.

 

nice, i will try it out. Thanks

 

Finally ordered myself a tuner from AM. time to make the most of that JLT

 

What tunes did you get? I will not be out done... check muh thread.

 

Nice!

 

87/89 street
87/89 performance
91 race

i would have gone 93, but its not prevalent enough here. and i get free tunes for life so if I want a change, its just an email away

 

**** i need to get a tuner, need to get a CAI and some stuff first though!

 

no reason not to get one now, what with the free tunes for life and all