Shelby Drop

Has anyone here done the shelby upper control arm drop? For those that have, did dropping the control arm 1" give you a 1" drop in ride height?

 

there is a form on here about that but i dont remember what the name of it is i read it a lil while back

 

I did it on our Mustang Ward,it didnt drop it much, maybe 1/2 inch but it does handle better.

 

http://home.bresnan.net/~dazed/drop


Found in this thread

http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=77632&highlight=shelby+upper+control+arm+drop


Hope that was the one you meant.. as I was reading it as well 2 weeks ago.

 

its not the same one but this mit work as some one done answered him

 

Because there is geometry involved, a 1 inch A-arm drop will equal "less than that" at the wheel. A little more than 1/2 an inch echoes with what I have heard.

Anxious to do this myself at the right time in the future. Eager to hear your results and how you like it.

 

Thank you all for the response. I have 2" dropped spindles and I wanted to know where I might end up combined with the shelby drop. Looks like I will be pretty low, and I love it, hope I don't drag too much. That article is a good read, Jeff did you use those alignment specs or something else?

 

Can't wait to hear how this works out for you.

 

Where did you find drop spindles?

 

Fatman Fabrications. http://fatmanfab.com/

 

I used the same Shelby specs, It's really easy you can even do it with the engine and trans in, just need the springs and control arms removed.

 

At the risk of getting off track here... do you have the old fatman spindles or the new redesigned spindles. I would like to see pics of the new ones but they do not offer any.

Thanks

 

Chris mine are the old ones. I can get you pics later today.

 

Thanks but they say the new design is completely different. It still uses the Granada rotor but now uses a GM F-body caliper. Kind of screwed up. I dont know why they cant design it to fit an off the shelf style brake setup. Must be a gimmick to sell their in house break components.

 

Yeah Chris you are right in the calipers that they use now. I have a 64 Galaxie also and I have the new Fatman dropped spindles for it also
and they are for use with the GM calipers with the Granada rotors. I talked to Brent when I bought the Gal. spindles pretty extensively and the reason for the switch was 2 fold. 1: no one makes new Granada calipers and he is affraid that they will become harder to find and more expensive in time where as the 70's early 80s camero are more plentiful. 2: Wilwood makes a direct replacement 2 piston caliper for the GM unit. Now both Wilwood and Fatmen said they could make a bracket to run large diameter rotors and big calipers at an additional cost, and of course there is the cost of the large rotors and calipers.