Installed UMI LCA's & ADJ Panhard Bar & ZR-1 Rims
Well i decided to start with a few minor upgrades before jumping into lowering springs shocks and sway bars. I bought UMI on sale and shipped for 180, which i couldn't find a better price for these two products.
I installed from passenger side LCA, then the on car adj panhard bar, then finished with the drivers LCA.
Passenger LCA:
-came out easy, had completely shot stock bushings
Adj on car Panhard Bar:
-old one unbolted easy
-one of the bolts was finger tight and easily spun off
-had newer poly bushings, still good from what i can tell
-the new bar was a very tight fit and took some finessing to get bolted up
Driverside LCA:
-unbolted easy and dropped it immediately noticing it being almost twice the weight of the other
-it had two different poly bushings both shot to the point that they fell right out
-the bottom had a thick welded in plate accounting for the extra weight
Conclusion:
I was very surprised to find such shoddy work done to a car that previous owners had invested much time and money in.
ZR-1's:
Also the night before i picked up a set of old school ZR-1 Replicas, all 9.5 i'd assume since they have 275's all around. One tire is bad and has to get replaced, but i will most likely being doing a upgraded matching (currently Falkens) set i can hopefully find at e town swap meet soon enough. I got them way down in Williamstown area, and the guy who had them really didn't seem to know too much about what they were (replicas) and c4 zr-1's not c5 5 spokes. They were also very tarnished and had me worried about if they would polish up, needless to say with some of my marine grade metal and chrome polish, they shined up pretty nicely. Oh, and for the first time my powerball actually came in handy, polishing these by hand would have taken hours to do what this thing did in minutes.
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