Whats the best way to lower a 54 chevy 210 in the front without going mustangII or stubing it? Are there drop spindles out there? Based on the height of my car, cut springs would cause camber to be something horrible. Any help would be great.
I cut springs in 4 of these cars already. 1.5 springs out and it sits fine, and drives nice. There are dropped uprights available as well, or you can bag the stock front suspension with some mild fabrication. Here's ours with 1.5 coils cut up front....
we cut the coils on the 53 that my boy use to own and it rode pretty good...seems to me like i remember him saying that chassis engineering sold the dropped uprights but really cant remember check 50chevy.com they have some very useful tech stuff in there
Gambino drop spindles and cut a coil to coil and a half and she will get down there for you and still have room for alignment and ride. Any lower in the front and you will have to atleast notch the rear to get it sitting right
I forgot to mention my car, as pictured above, has a small block and automatic. The extra weight brings the car down even more.
In addition to the already mentioned options you can also step the lower A-arms. Ther was an EXCELLENT tech posting on it a couple of weeks ago. it will probalby give you another 2" of drop along with the other mods. Todd
I used Fatman Fabrication dropped spindles in the front of this 1950 Chevy, without cutting any colis. The ride was great.
Bufalo Engineering makes a set of lowering uprights that are set up to give a few degrees more caster too. Wasn't there a thread on here about NAPA front springs for a minivan or something that worked to lower these as well?
The problem you get before having to worry about notching is the enclosed drive shaft. You'll have to change that out before worrying about notching.
I put dearched 4 inch drop leafs in rear with A Gambino Customs c-notch kit and custom 4 inch blocks that cost me about $500 in parts to do the rear for 8 inches of drop. in the front Flipped spindles that were cut in half and welded 3 inches higher using a total of 4 spindles to make them work, then 2 coils were removed and dropped steering arms also that cost $300 used but RM engineering in PDX, OR can do this for you if you can't. It is the old school way of doing it right. P.S. my car is lower now than in the pic to the left.
2 1/5 coils cut out of the front and c-notched the rear with 4 inch blocks and 3 leafs removed, we use air shocks to help the rear with a full loaded car. Drives nice and handles fine.
I cut about 2 coils off the front and for the rear i dearched the main spring and flipped the eyes . No problems for me and the ride is great.
There are tons of info here already on doing this but sometimes it can be hard to find the correct search words to bring it up. Do some different searches. They have to bring up all sorts of information. This has been covered in depths many times here.
I tried a few more searches after that and did find more info. I think the cheap answer here is 4 inch blocks, 3 coils and hit the road.
This is the stepping the lower A arms post. He says you get 2 1/2" of drop from this. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=317696 On mine I have dropped uprights, steering arms, and bags
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