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Whoops. You're right. I see that now. In any case, 17s are still my choice on a 66 OR a 68. That's what I'm going to put on my 66.

Looks like a 68 from the picture. That being said, you chose well, Falcon. The 18s might have given you clearance issues, especially up front. I like those bullets. Even though they are cheaper, I plan on getting the American Racing Torq Thrust M so I can avoid wheel spacers. And the zero...

What year?

I first replaced the broken shocks that were on it with some cheapo Monroe ones from Advance. But it was like they weren't even there. If I took a corner more than 25mph the front end would plow through it. And so much body roll I thought I was going to fall out of the door. So I junked em and...

The GR2s are closer to a stock shock than they want you to believe. If you want a cheap shock that is stiffer and a little more responsive, try the Gas-A-Justs. They are a high pressure shock vs the low pressure GR2. I put them up front (along with a couple other things) and they greatly...

Yeah it's what was easy to access. Still shows the difference in the weight. And that's what I was going for. If you want a better comparison, compare horse sense's pic of a 28 oz to the 50 oz on the left of my picture.

It's really obvious the difference between a 50oz and a 280z. Here's a pic of two I had in the garage. The left one came out of an 87 Fox 302. Its a 50 oz. The right one is a flexplate that came off an 84 Bronco 351w. It's a 28 oz. The difference in the balance weight is pretty substantial...

Glad you figured it out. I went to replace my ball joints and when I actually looked, I ended up replacing all the ball joints, bushings, tie rod ends, shocks, and end links. On these cars, fix one thing and find two more broken. haha. If you had to replace the spring, I'd go ahead and do the...

Willing to bet it will be obvious once you get under there. Agree with Falcon. Either the ball joint or sway bar end link is most likely your problem. The clunk could be caused by a broken spring, even if just the last coil broke, but probably wouldn't cause the car to jerk to the side. Is...

Mine did the same even though I took that picture with my phone. The file is large. I opened it in Preview, cropped it to get some of the excess out and saved the new image on my desktop as a jpeg (don't just click save or it will overight the original). I set the quality bar in the save dialog...

If your 66 was built at the beginning of the 66 production year, you may have just gotten the previous paint color because they had it left over. They did this with parts sometimes too. I know there are reports that the inserts (between the grille and the head lights. the ones with the little...

Well just looking at the math, it seems you should use wheels with 1 inch extra backspacing than you would use with your stock axle. So theoretically, if you'd use a zero offset with 4.5 backspacing on the stock axle, you'd need a 1 inch positive offset putting it at 5.5 inch backspacing. To...

I put the gr2 on the back simply because the car is really light back there and with the solid axle going over bumps, it can be ruff. Gr2 is a softer shock and I wanted something that would feel smoother going over speed bumps in the back. The front is not a problem as there is plenty of weight...

I use KYB Gas-A-Justs on the front and KYB GR2s on the back. Got rid of the crappy Monroe ones that were on there and I'm never looking back.

test EDIT: Scrasauge, underneath the window you type text in to post a reply, there is a button labeled Upload a File. Click it and you can go search your harddrive for a file. I grabbed this one out of my Home/Pictures folder. And this was done on a mac. Car on the left is mine. Car on the...

What is involved in preparation for welding it in? My car runs and I assume the tank needs to come out for safety. But since I don't own a welder, I always go to a friend's work place for welding stuff. So I can't be diassembling a car there unless it can go back together quickly.

Are you say you would or would not recommend the sub frame connectors? I would like to prevent body cracking for sure.

I don't think it is supposed to be sealed like that. New cars have an evaporative emissions system that keeps the gas vapors from getting too hot and expanding in the tank. These old cars did not have that and most likely just didn't seal well at all. How bad is it? I get a little "pff" on...

Jeff, what size tire are you running. I thought you said the back wheels didn't rub? Don't know how easy it would be to do, but you might investigate a putting a bump stop for the axle that would stop the axle's movement before it hit the quarter. My buddy put wider axles on his jeep but they...

Dang! I really don't want those cracks. Got enough cracks in the paint already with real cracks. I added a monte carlo bar and replaced the busted shocks with high pressure Gas-A-Justs and it no longer understeers around corners. Planning on putting in a quality export brace and the subframe...