Everything You Need to Transform Your Muscle Cars Front Suspension

Everything You Need to Transform Your Muscle Cars Front Suspension on a budget at home in your garage!
This is part 1 of a new multi part video series where I transform the handling of my 1964 Mercury Comet's front suspension from stock to serious street cruiser. The same approach/parts will also work on your early 1960s Ford Falcon, Ford Mustang, or similar muscle cars. The idea is that I do all the leg work showing you the parts and cost up front and then break the disassembly and installation into short 10min video increments so you have everything you need to be successful with your project after work or on the weeks.
TODAY'S VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY TORCH EDC GEAR. CHECK OUT THEIR FULL LINEUP OF EVERY DAY CARRY GEAR INCLUDING THE COMMUTER BACKPACK V2 HERE: WWW.TORCHEDC.COM
The full parts list and pricing can be found here via OpenTracker Racing with links to the key items below:
Upper ball joints - $80
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Lower ball joints - $90
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Roller spring perches - $225
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Bump steer kit - $208.95
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Inner tie rod ends - $80
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Shelby drop template - $15
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Bilstein front shocks - $262 opentrackerrac...
1" front sway bar kit - $175.95 opentrackerrac...
Performance coils - $114.95
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1/8" poly coil insulators - $26.95
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Tinman Weld In Subframe Connectors: $223.95
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00:00 Introduction/Project Overview
01:22 Subframe Connectors
02:05 Trans Am Bracing
02:44 Inner Tie Rod Ends
03:01 Bump Steer Kit (Granada Spindles)
03:26 Torch EDC Gear
04:46 Upper & Lower Ball Joints
05:34 1" Front Sway Bar
06:18 Lower Control Arm & Strut Rod Bushings
06:45 Roller Spring Perches
07:12 Upper Control Arm Cross Shafts
07:31 Mustang Performance Coil Springs
07:59 Bilstein Front Shocks
08:18 Shelby Drop Template
08:59 Specialty Tools - Internal Spring Compressor
09:50 Wrap Up/Outro

[@truckandroll989]

Part 2 is live here: ruclips.net/video/ZlTSf24kxu8/видео.htmlsi=Tpd39HloPHUq4wMc

[@kellycolligan9836]

Can’t wait to see it!

[@cyclonekevin6199]

Happy New Year

[@truckandroll989]

You as well!

[@morlando51]

I can’t say enough good stuff about Open Tracker. I’ve got an early ’64 Falcon so it came with the ‘63 steering. It was a nightmare to figure out until they walked me through it all. They have some special pitman arm that allowed me to convert to the ‘65 steering. And like you said they told me which parts I could reuse and which had to be replaced. They didn’t try to upsell me at all.
Also I can’t wait to see your lower control arm video… I thought I was going to only replace my bushing until I got in there and realized I didn’t have what it takes and just ordered a whole new set of control arms haha.

[@truckandroll989]

First, thank you for watching and I couldn’t agree more regarding John and Shari at Open Tracker. I got lucky that I already had the better ‘65 center link and pitman arm. My car suffers pretty severely from what I thought was bump steer but it may just be a bad alignment and blown out ball joints causing it to dart when the front suspension unloads.
Im curious what issues you ran into with the lower arms and how your Falcon handles now with the new Open Tracker parts.
Personally, Im most worried about out the UCA since I will likely have to remove my headers to gain access but who knows what else I will find :)

[@morlando51]

@@truckandroll989 for the upper and lower control arms it was only a little more expensive to just replace them entirely than to replace just bushings and ball joints. It cost a little more but saved a TON of time fighting with 60 year old parts. I replaced my leaf spring bushings before tackling the front of the car so that experience made me not want to deal with trying to press old bushing out.
My car drives so much better with just new bushing throughout and going to the ‘65 steering. I didn’t even do the Shelby drop, the roller spring perches, or the chassis stiffening that you’re doing. So yours is going to be amazing when all of that is done.
Looking forward to the upcoming videos. Also I wish you had done this a year ago so I didn’t have to learn everything the hand way!