Drop Spindles

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Blue86Monte

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Depending on what wheels you have you may have clearence issues. My buddy went that route and ended up with his Centerlines rubbing the outer tie rods. Not wanting to lose the centerlines he had to use spacers behind the wheels to get clearence. Do some measuring before you buy.
 
Another thing to think about. How far are you a-arms from the ground now? They will be 2" lower with those. And that means more chance of them rubbing, hitting, or getting caught up on bumps or other stuff on the road. On a track that's not a concern, but on the street it can be.
 
The wheels on the car right now are 15" rallys with Firehawk Tires. Guess I should go do some measurements before I decide to fork out the money.
 
i ran a set with 14" deep dish cragars and they cleared everything but they were reverse offset so that may make a difference. my opinion is use springs, with drop spindles you still have a ton of slopy play in the front end and it makes it easy to bottom your wheels out on your wheel wells, that was my issue. i say go for a high quality set of springs with like a 1.5-2" drop and get much better handeling.
 
and drop spindles make an already bad suspension geometry worse.
 
Ideas for a good set of springs?
 
SPC, Eibach, OPG,
 
I have a set of Hotchkis 1902 springs on mine PLUS Belltech 2100 spindles, drove it 2 summers in Michigan and never caught the lower arms on anything.
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