Got tired of trying to find these threads for everyone and I found this one that has just about all the info you need in links. If you find any other good links regarding suspension info please add it. It's now a sticky and I've spent most of the evening fixing links in old posts. Hope this helps everyone.
Here is the set up we run on our GNS test car..... http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/threads/complete-dse-suspension-build.329141/[ATTACH=full]159508[/ATTACH]
GAHHHHH been looking for this forever.Adding the info for the Blazer brake upgrade. Got tired of trying to track it down all the time.
http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/threads/11-bolt-on-brakes.171079/
GAHHHHH been looking for this forever.
I need to start posting on here more.
and i shall
Hopefully others will put some more real tech on how to do suspension and brake upgrades that they did themselves rather than just buying someone's parts and having them put on.
Well I'm all for conversions, but about the only "junk yard" parts I would ever use on any car would be brackets to use the said parts. Therefore your still gonna buy new hoses, calipers, rotors, etc. Once you consider core charges and other unseen items and fees, to some...time and assurance in function is most important. "JUNKYARD" parts are not for cars as fast as some of these members cars are. Thousands of members on here invest major dollars in going very fast...to save a few bucks on used or reworked brakes is not worth my time. If your building your car to "GO" then it better "WHOA".And now you know why I got it stickied. Hopefully others will put some more real tech on how to do suspension and brake upgrades that they did themselves rather than just buying someone's parts and having them put on.
Well I'm all for conversions, but about the only "junk yard" parts I would ever use on any car would be brackets to use the said parts. Therefore your still gonna buy new hoses, calipers, rotors, etc. Once you consider core charges and other unseen items and fees, to some...time and assurance in function is most important. "JUNKYARD" parts are not for cars as fast as some of these members cars are. Thousands of members on here invest major dollars in going very fast...to save a few bucks on used or reworked brakes is not worth my time. If your building your car to "GO" then it better "WHOA".
While that may sound good and it might have been where it started, These are new times! The reason for that back then Charlie is simply because there was no aftermarket companies making that stuff so they "Had to" find other ways, Now that there are these great aftermarket suspension companies making great products that correct geometry issues and the parts are FAR more superior to any OEM part is why Many people choose to go with an aftermarket product simply because it is a far more superior product. I don't knock it either way as there are people with budget constraints which only allow them so much for their build and that's fine. But Not Everyone wants to or has the skill set to go to a junk yard and take other OEM car parts, modify them and adapt them to their car just to get a slight upgrade from stock, some actually do prefer to save a little more and buy a superior product Once, simply "Bolt them on", and get the best possible product for their car. These aftermarket manufactures have taken all the guess work out of these products and have spent Gobs of money on testing and research so these customers can have a nice easy "Bolt-On" system that Far exceeds any OEM suspension product..While that may sound good, hot rodding was founded by guys that wanted to go fast and scrounged through scrapyards to find parts that could be adapted to their cars. Corvette brakes being adapted to a G body spindle or dropping a BBC/SBC into a T frame, dropping a flathead Ford into a T frame, ect Donnie. It's become a big aftermarket business now, but it all started in the scrapyard and that's what keeps things interesting. The guys that experiment on their own dime and with parts that they either made or scrounged from scrapyards to improve performance, not the ones that went to the speed shop and bought the biggest bling they could find.