Re: Post Here! What color is you K-car???
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:40 am
capev86 wrote:thats the most ghetto suspension i've seen. i cringe to think about that beautiful car. why didn't you put the air springs in the spring pockets where so that is rugged enough to take the stress. nice exhaust, but it would look interesting if it came straight out the back or split and went out each back corner.....
funny you mention stress, thats exactly why i DIDN'T put the bags where the stock springs went. in order to get the wagon as low as it is, i would have had to notch the subframe if i had put the bags in the stock rear spring location. i wasnt comfortable cutting apart the frame of my K car. if i had decided not to notch the frame, there would have been no way to mount the bags and run airlines from the top. it has shocks in stock location and is more rugged and handles more stress than it did before the bags. it will out corner any stock K car now. it gets very little body roll and since i have also replaced the sway bar bushings up front it handles better than it ever has.
keep in mind these are bags, not hydraulics. cadillac and lincoln puts bags on their high end cars and SUVs to improve handling and give a super smooth ride, i hardly think thats ghetto. i do understand though, its not the best looking set-up, but since these photos were taken i have under coated everything and it actually looks much better.
the set-up was all about simplicity. the way it has been done i still have back seats, still have a rear cargo area, still use the stock link arms, stock bottom shock mounts, and stock panhard bar. and if i ever want to return it to stock, i havent damaged or altered the original spring pockets. so i can simply put the stock coils back in.
i hate to think you feel like i have done this K wagon an injustice but i think she is happier than ever.