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falcon
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Its time..
I'm front-ending my 1964 Falcon.
I have been looking at some different kits for some time now and would Need some input from everyone.
I'm looking for a fairly in-expensive kit to remove my stock shock towers and use a rack and pinion steering of some sort.
What have you used in the past?
What works better than the others?
What should I stay away from?
Is there somthing I can piece together to get my desired result?
What companies have you heard of that do these?
Thanks in advance for all of your help
Posts: 73 | From: So Cal | Registered: Apr 2007
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SLOWBACK 67
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If you want to do it on he cheap... Re do the front suspention with stock style stuff. You can get a good riding/ handling with stock style. Maier Racing make a great frontend that would ride nice www.maierracing.com .
If you want to notch / cutout the shock towers.... Buy a nice kit... You get what you pay for so I wouldn't go cheap if you go that route. Just my .02 ![[patriot]](graemlins/patriot.gif)
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I have no intenions of keeping anyones parts or taking anyones money.
Posts: 8582 | From: Vallejo | Registered: Dec 2005
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falcon
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I've been looking at the RC motorsports kit. Just trying to decide on what to purchase.
Figured I'd ask and see who has run what and get pros/cons.
Thanks for the reply.
I've always liked the maier racing stuff
Posts: 73 | From: So Cal | Registered: Apr 2007
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70mach351
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heidts has a pretty good design and with upgrades is not a bad deal. Im probably going to go with the heidts kit on my mach 1 as the griggs kit is a bit more pricey.
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70 Mach 1 gettin a make over
2001 Ford F250 Crew Cab 7.3
Posts: 1762 | From: EDH | Registered: Mar 2007
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Originally posted by 70mach351:
heidts has a pretty good design and with upgrades is not a bad deal. Im probably going to go with the heidts kit on my mach 1 as the griggs kit is a bit more pricey.
I've done quite a bit more research into this..
You should look into the RC motorsports kit.
Very nice
Posts: 73 | From: So Cal | Registered: Apr 2007
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1990GT50
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Hey nice to see another falcon lover. Is yours a post? Im picking one up soon- 64 2dr post and already have a lot of plans. Just out of curiosity why are you going towards a rack-and-pinion? Are you looking for better handling, freeing up room, or what? If you want to keep it cheap, you can put a mustang II front end in it. If you're trying to keep it clean, I would go with heidts or something but Im not sure how "performance" based their setups are as I only see them on classic show cars.
Probably not what you're looking for at all but if you just want to clean it up, you could get new export braces. I made a post about it down the page a bit....
Posts: 877 | From: Benicia | Registered: Nov 2002
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Originally posted by 1990GT50:
Hey nice to see another falcon lover. Is yours a post? Im picking one up soon- 64 2dr post and already have a lot of plans. Just out of curiosity why are you going towards a rack-and-pinion? Are you looking for better handling, freeing up room, or what?
Its just a sedan. I have had it for about 15 years now. Started life as the biggest pile of crap you could imagine and with a lot of money and time its getting better by the day.
I'm in the middle of a 442 windsor build and was trying to find a set of "off the shelf" headers that had at minimum, 1 7/8" primarys. I own a shop here in So Cal and basically have a full fabrication faciity at my disposal, but I'm lazy and was trying to find a easier way out of cuttin the front end off. So now its just a deal of making room and the car safer to race. It 60' in the mid 1.40s and the 'toe in' on the launch is stupid, so when I come down, the car goes where ever. So doing this is going to make it a lot safer..
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Originally posted by 1990GT50:
If you want to keep it cheap, you can put a mustang II front end in it. If you're trying to keep it clean, I would go with heidts or something but Im not sure how "performance" based their setups are as I only see them on classic show cars.
Probably not what you're looking for at all but if you just want to clean it up, you could get new export braces. I made a post about it down the page a bit....
I've done almost all of them. But you never know if somthing else is out there that might be better that you havent heard of, unless you ask.
Posts: 73 | From: So Cal | Registered: Apr 2007
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70mach351
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Im pretty sure the heidts kit is similiar, i talked to these guys years ago but keep getting stage fright to cut the car up. Heidts uses a little bit bigger bolt for the lower control arms as that is where the failure usually occurs, fat man fabrication had a problem with using grade 5 bolts a few years back. There is a shop in fresno that was at HAN and said i could come down and drive there cars if i had any doubts about the heidts kit. I think i looks clean and will be much easier to work on. Good luck.
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2001 Ford F250 Crew Cab 7.3
Posts: 1762 | From: EDH | Registered: Mar 2007
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