New here, with a mustang

[Eric M]

Good choice with the ground controls! Cant wait to see this thing without the wheel gap

[LuckyH]

H&R pretty much the standard when looking at wheel spacers?

[jpod999]

Can't go wrong with them.

[LuckyH]

So I just got the coil overs in the mail today. Hope to get them on this weekend with some updated pics.



I also just received the suede I ordered.



Both my mother and grandmother are good "quilters/seamstress". I asked if they can do diamond stitching, she said they probably could. So I'm going to have them make me some door panel inserts, shift boot, and an arm rest cover. Black with orange stitching. If that turns out well I'm going to see if they can somehow do the seats with this is an insert. Here's how I'm hoping for it to turn out:

[Jedidiah]

looking forward to this thing being low... make sure you have them do a layer of padding behind the suede then stitch together.. it will create "pillow diamonds" instead of just flat stitching, which imo looks way better.

[LuckyH]

Okay..well here is how the rear looks. The springs that came with the kit are 10" eibach coil overs. I'll be purchasing 8" springs after a while, just want to see at what height these settle at. I'm thinking on the fronts I'm going to have to cut the bump stops. The current vogtland springs don't offer much clearance in that area and these are only going to be lower. For now my front end is sitting higher than the rear, I'll end up doing the fronts Tuesday.

[SD202]

those sure are some meaty tires !! Nice build

[starbai]

There is a guy on the mustang forum I'm on. He told me which coilovers to get, He's doing some stretching with his staggered 18x9's and 18x10's.





It's pretty much damn impossible to do what you guys do with the 350z. Maybe one day they will bring the IRS back, until then there's no way to tuck huge wheels that have super low offsets with no camber.

What coilovers were they? I assume eibach coils from your post above.

What else is needed to get a stang this low due to not having an IRS?

Just picked up a 5.0 and I neeeeed it lowerrrr... I was thinking eibach sportlines... but what did he suggest?

[LuckyH]

So I purchased the 8" rear springs (currently running 10") for the coilovers, The rear will be definitely low enough (pic below of how she sits at the moment with the 10" springs). However I'm having a problem with the front. Is there anyway to move the actual shock lower in the sleeve in order to lower the overall ride height? I think my only other option would be to have the actual strut length shortened.

[exexpat]

^ shortened shock throw is what coilovers get you (or modified shocks with air).

[WhiteStripes]

Can't answer the strut question, but damn man, your car is coming along. I'm loving it.

Were your family members able to do the diamond stitching?

[sixonefive]

just bag it!

[Mattphi]

Needs more low. Looks good though

[LuckyH]

Needs more low. Looks good though

Thanks. Yeah, i'm capable of going 2" lower in the rear right now. But I'm not going to until I can get this strut problem figured out. I'm out of travel with the front strut, so it's not like I can just cut the spring perch and have it welded lower.

I have done a few practice runs with the interior, used scrap material laying around to do the pattern, came out great. I'll get pics up as soon as I do the real deal. Got some pretty thick cotton badding, so I'm hoping it will be pretty "puffy".

[e36cruiser]

will the steeda X5 balljoints work the same way they do on my sn95? if you dont run the spacers you get an extra 1/2" drop, obviously you want more than that but it retains strut travel.