Cascade Crew

[Wulfist]

Hello Cascade Crew! My friends I've been busy, and I wanted to share what I bought myself with everyone here in case someone else is going to or thinking about the same upgrades/replacements. *With Pictures*



Shopping List
-UMI Performance-
>Sub-frame connectors
>Wonder bar
>Adjustable Panhard bar & rear lower control arms
>Rear lower control arm relocation brackets

-Spohn Performance-
>Sway bar front and back set
>Eibach pro kit springs (1.25" lowered)
>Front end rebuild kit with ball joints.

-Summit Racing-
>KYB front struts
>KYB back shocks



Day 1
Cleaned the garage and unpacked all the goodies, felt like an expensive Christmas! In the picture below is the mess my happiness generated. >.>



After I laid out my tools and unwrapped all the new parts, made sure everything was in one piece and complete.


^Part 1 of the inventory - sway bars, wonder bar, springs, struts, shocks, and panhard bar+lower control arms.


^Part 2 of the inventory - Relocation brackets and front end with misc stuff on the bench, like a new brake line =]


^Part 3 of inventory - Sub-frame Connectors // I'm thinking on calling Kitsap Muffler and having them weld these in my car seeing how I have no clue how to weld or the tools to do it. @Al Hasse, how did you go about this in your car?

From here I put the front end (roughly) together.


Tomorrow I will have new pictures on progress of actually involving the Camaro. On a side note I decided to kill extra time and replace those stock speakers with some mid-range Infinitys....WOW! H U G E difference!


^Old speakers

[Dewey316]

That is a big shopping list. I remember doing that stuff to my car, you will really enjoy it when it gets donw.

[Wulfist]

[Al Hasse]

[Wulfist]

[MrMike98]

since u are at it . how about a break upgrade to at least LS-1's up front??

as for welding-try the shop on the corner of 7th and Park..remember its not the shop , its the welder...so were ever you go find a good one.

have fun

[Wulfist]

[MrMike98]

price depends on how much work u do..etc...
there are complete instructions over at 3rd gen.org.
i did most of my work, had local mach. shop do a little and i bought calipers of ebay with new rotors and pads~350.00..total
best think i have done...stock breaks are scary.......
your car will handle great but, if you can't stop!!!!!!!

[Al Hasse]

If and when you decide on a bigger brake setup, I can lend a hand there. It's pretty much a guarantee you will have to make an irreversible mod to the spindles (involves some cutting).

[Wulfist]

I do want to upgrade my front brakes. That is something I'm willing to do down the line, I have no green backs for while this upgrade is happening. Thanks Al, you are a very awesome person and I was stupid to let you down in the past. Enough of all this! It's time for day 2 to be posted!

[Wulfist]

Day 2

Hours spent: Around 2.5

So I started pretty late today, around noon. After I set the mood with some music and got the cars front end jacked up I went straight into taking the front tires of so I could get to the old front end.


^The outer tie rods, peeled the pin back and out. After which put a wrench to it and they were relatively painless on both sides.


^After the outer tie rods were disconnected and hanging I went for the Idler mount, the tricky thing about this was you have to hold a wrench on the bolts indicated, but also put a socket through the wheel well on the other side to dismount that sucker. See picture below.


^That is where the socket goes in on the front passenger wheel well.

By the way, the outer tie rods and steering box mount all need a couple good hammer hits to break them loose. The steering box mount wasn't too hard to get out just took time with a wrench, when it broke free I had moved my head JUST in time to not get a forehead stamp.


^Looking at my old 1987 rubber bushings was sad... =[ They were very worn out and had a lot of play in them.


^After the old front end was completely out I put it next to the new one and got the inner and outer tie rods as close to the original size as possible so when I'm done I can limp it to a tire center for an alignment.

Ok so now that the old one is out and the new one is close and prepped I looked to taking out that old sway bar which also had a lot of sad rubber play in its bushings. Not to mention after it was out I could see it had been worn out severely.


^This is where on both points I took that long screw out (Or tried to). A lot of that crap has rusted over so bad I couldn't get it out, hopping to take a Sazzaw or something to it tomorrow or the next day to make way for the new polyurethane bushings. After those you need to unbolt the two clam shells near the middle of the sway bar and drop it down. I forgot to take a picture of this part. =[ Afterwards I used the clam shells and prepped the new sway bar to go in.

Day 3s goal is to have the old struts and springs out and start putting all the new stuff in so I can focus on the back end. More updates as they happen. Overall today was VERY fun, cold, and painful with a near head injury. =]

[aaron_sK]

You need an impact and a recip saw my friend.

[Dewey316]

pfff, big arse hammer and some pb blaster, and you should be able to pound the center screw clear from the sleeve. You can take the old sway bar out first, just undo the inboard mounts.

[aaron_sK]

[Dewey316]

Me work hard...really, ME?!? I have an air hammer just for instances like that. Pnematics FTW. Now days I would probably just buzz it off with a cutoff disk. I found that having a 90* and a straight grinder are the two tools I use by far the most. I use them for almost everything from cutting to smoothing to slapping a scotchbright pad on to clean metal surfaces.

[Wulfist]

[chevymad]

I like fire myself. Nothing like a nice toasty bushing campfire to roast marshmellows over.

[MrMike98]

A-arm bushings will need to be changed out...so when u have ur ball joints pressed in and out have them instll new bushing.....

[Wulfist]

[Wulfist]

Sorry this has been taking forever, I do have Day 3 and 4 to post and will be doing so later this evening. Hope everyone is having an awesome week!