Well we're here with Project Chevelle
Obviously, we got a bunch of 9-inch stuff here
We've been driving the Chevelle around with the 383 and the Tremec and it's an absolute hoot to drive
The problem is we're worried every time we stab the gas that we're gonna spit of stock axle out of it or something.
So here we are we've got a bunch of 9-inch stuff
ready to bolt in. Yeah, we were a little worried about that 420 horse with the stock 10 bolt
I mean upgrading it
we've got some stuff to do that if we wanted to
change gear ratios around to get over to a posi but in the end game
you know with some decent tires on it and all that motor it's it's gonna need something a little more heavy-duty
so yeah, brakes, axles, tubular control arms set up. We do all of our own third members right in-house here.
Right tubular control arms, you know, it takes all the stock bushing slop out of it.
You know, we actually plan to do some drag strip launches with this
so, you know holding up the stock control arm it'd be kind of a bummer.
And then disc brakes of course disc brakes in the front. Now, we're gonna have disc brakes in the rear.
We have our emergency brake calipers
so you can still use the stocky brake pedal.
All in all this stuff should all just bolt on and and we should be ready to do some burnouts.
Looking forward to.
Okay, so we're just about ready to go up with the 9 inch housing and mount it in the car.
One thing that's worth noting this housing obviously it comes with all the bracketry to mount your stock control arm, stock shocks
there would typically be a stock
spring perch up here
for the stock coil springs since we knew we weren't going to use those we knew we were gonna do coil overs
we went ahead and cut that off ground to smooth before we had this powder-coated.
But as you would receive this it would be bare steel with the spring hanger on it and the other cool thing
is these QA1 coil over mounting brackets to mount on the stock 10 bolt
you have to index it off with a stock lower shock mount hole and then
drill this hole for the upper bolt to go through and
in the case of these Speedway
housings they actually come with that hole already there. So it's literally just a bolt on and go kinda deal.
So I think we're just about ready to go.
So finishing up our rear end suspension 9-inch upgrade and disc brake install on the back things went pretty well.
Really nice pieces all fit together pretty well.
New tubular rear suspension stuff looked like that lines all up got a sway bar now as well
so it's gonna be a pretty sweet little ride. What do you think Joe? All that's left now
we've gotta plumb the brakes, we're waiting for our driveshaft
we already sent the measurement off to Fast Shafts, so we should have that here within the next couple days.
And the one thing that's worth mentioning, you know, if these videos everything kind of looks easy it looks like it all falls together
you know, you know if you've done any of this kind of work if that's probably not the case.
So going along with all of these videos is an accompanying tech article or written tech article that goes over part numbers and some
of the changes and modifications and struggles that we had as it was if you're actually doing the work
so be sure and check that out.
It's at The Toolbox at SpeedwayMotors.com so be sure and check those out
if you're into anymore in-depth sort of how we did this and what parts we used.