Thanks for your kind words. I like em low, but I am concerned about driveability. I have Posies rear springs and I am surprised that they are not lower. Hope to have it painted and ready to re-***emble in about two months. Anxious.
Looks great to me! Although, it may be hard to tell until you get it all put back together with all the weight on it. My car only has the Aerostar springs as far as lowering in the front and I do bottom it out on occasion. Recently drug hard pulling into my shop and caused a real bad power steering leak that I need to fix...
That's gonna be an awesome ride, Okie. Obviously being done right!! Driveability/height I think is going to be an issue. You've got very little weight on the suspension...just a bare body and drivetrain, and it's already low. The saving factor may be that the Aerostars have a higher springrate than our oem springs, so they're not going to compress as much. What's your motor, btw?
The motor is one of Speedways 302's built by Blueprint Motors, 300 hp. Will run a FITech instead of a carb. I think that you and guthriesmith may be correct. I still have original springs if I need them. We will see.
I have Versailles spindles with Aerostar coils on my car. I put 3/4" coil spring spacers in also to negate some of the spindle drop. 2" blocks in the back. I don't have any trouble bottoming out or s****ing as of yet. I will add that the KYB shocks are a little bit too firm of a ride on rough roads in town but on the hyway they seem ok.
Looks good to me too. I have a 5.0 in mine with Granada spindles and Aerostars up front and stock springs with 3" blocks out back. You will need to either cut the bump stops up front or go with thinner ones from Energy Suspension if you haven't already.
I took my aerostars out, 15" tires s****ed on the inner wheel wells. I have stock springs back in with 1 coil cut off them. So far so good. But may pop the aerostars back in later with spacers.
Just to add....alot is going to depend on the weight of that engine. My 4.6 is so light even with 2 1/2 dropped spindles it was sitting 2" HIGHER than oem (with new 6 cyl. rated springs), but replacing them with Aerostars got it too low, so ended up taking 1 1/4 off the new 6 cyl. springs.
I had cut down my OG springs since I had them around. The car has settled a bit since they've been in.
It seems like that when I researched swapping to a 302 I figured the 302 and AOD was a around 250 lbs lighter than the original 272 and fordamatic.
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