Christmas in April as I hit the Dodge L-body front suspension trifecta.As you can imagine, performance/racing parts for the Dodge L-body are pretty non-existant.
Luckily we have several vendors that do make several specialty items and Friday I finally got my last front suspension stuff.
A little history first.
About 1 1/2 years ago I got these BC inverted coilovers and caster/camber plates from Rich Bryant in Phoenix. He is RBryant on turbo-mopar.com.
Then, last September, I got this K-frame from Brian Slowe Racing in Philadelphia. He is turbo2point2 on turbo-mopar.com:
Last Friday, these Lower Control Arms came in from D.J. Elford - Race Tailored Engineering Inc. in Edmondton, Alberta.
He is turboshad on turbo-mopar.com.
I've been waiting on these since last October:
The new K-frame and LCA's replace the factory stamped steel ones which are heavy, prone to rust and sometimes having welds break.
Tomorrow, the K-frame, LCA's, rear axle and several other doo-dads are off to the powder coater.
All in all, pretty happy with finally getting all these parts although they are niche market items and were not cheap.....read $$$$
Now, work update:I've gotten about 3/4 of the underside wire brushed and only found two tiny rust areas. Need to finish the front frame rails and then the engine bay. Also, I need to weld up a few small holes in the cab floor pan.
After that is completed I will put on the Mastercoat Series metal prep and primer:
Cool little tidbit:Back in January I needed a new large thumb drive to transfer data from my desktop to my laptop so I got a SanDisk 16GB one from Target. When I opened it there was a blurb that said that when I registered it I would be eligible to win a trip to Hawaii during their 25th anniversary celebration. So, I go to their website and do the registeration. As I am finishing, a window popped up and said that I was now eligible for instant prizes. Then, a slot machine popped up and said that I had 10 sets of 5 spins or 50 total spins. So, I start to play! On my 4th spin in the 1st set, the spin gave me Camera, Camera, Camera. I continue on and in the 7th set a spin gave me SD Card, SD Card, SD Card. I continue on again and in the 9th set a spin gave me Camera Bag, Camera Bag, Camera Bag. I checked my emil and I had 3 that told me of the prizes that I had won and that SanDisk would be in touch within a week. Sure enough, they did get in touch with release forms that I had to sign and told me the prizes were on the way. The 1st week of April I did get the prizes.
GoPro Hero 2 Surf Edition:
I didn't take it out to get a pic but I did get a 32GB HDSD Card:
Camera Bag:
Retail value is around $450.00. I did end up buying the Roll Cage mount as I could not use any of the mounts from the Surf stuff.
Maybe I need to play the Lottery!
Gregg