Herb, I've never seen stock rear uppers on 68-72 chevelles. What years did they offer boxed uppers? The F41 heavy duty suspension only came with boxed lowers.
Trooper ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Lumpp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Chevelle Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:46 PM Subject: RE: [Chevelle-list] rear control arms > Hi Fred, > > If I were you I would reuse the stock upper arms. I have the same GW lower > arms on my Elky with a pair of boxed stock upper arms with the original > rubber bushings and no rear sway bar. That combined with the GW Negative > Roll front suspension and my Elky handles like a dream. In fact, I'd go so > far as to say it handles better than my Vette, which isn't stock either. > > Save your money by using the stock uppers and keep the GW lowers. Just my > opinion. > > Herb Lumpp > http://users.adelphia.net/~hlump/index.htm > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fred Dowaliby > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 7:45 AM > To: The Chevelle Mailing List > Subject: [Chevelle-list] rear control arms > > > I just bought a set of lower rear control arms from Global West, the > ones with the spherical bearing and Del-a-lum bushings. > > I am now considering those offered by Edelbrock as a cost cutting > alternative for the uppers. They are about $90(Jeg's) less than GW and > also use a spherical bearing on the frame side, although poly on the > axle side. > > I would appreciate any advice/opinions on this, particularly from > anyone who has purchased those from Global. This is for a cruiser, so > out and out performance is not the issue, but I still want to do it > right. > > Thanks, > > Fred > > >
