Welcome Rob.

I've gone through all of this on my 67. And while at the time my mindset was to stiffen everything up, I am now of the complete opposite opinion.... in my old age I just go with the stock rubber which is just fine.

But that being said, a few wins during the conversion were the addition of a pair of Vi-King adjustable front hybrid coilover shocks along with the requisite tubular lower control arms. I used Global West. The hybrid shock places the spring over the shock on a torrington bearing collar, and allows for easy adjustments in ride height, and the elimination of that age old hassle of finding a suitable spring. You must use a tubular lower arm in concert with the hybrid as the entire weight of the front end will now bear on the lower arm shock mount. The stock stamped arm is no where near strong enough to support this change. The aftermarket arm is heavily gusseted in this area.

Along with the tubular lower arms, I also went with Global west strut rods, which replace the stock rubber bushing with a heavy rod end, easing adjustability, lessening deflection and improving articulation.

Lastly, I used a Hotchkis frame linked rear stabilizer bar, which offers some adjustability and better axle articulation than the stock F41 bar. The rear springs were Eaton Detroit, HD, stock sedan.

I could mention that I used custom make Spohn Performance adjustable rear upper and lower arms with Johnny Joints at the front mounts and poly at the axle. The track bar is a UMI adjustable, poly. The front upper A arms are Global West with hard Del-A-Lum bushings. All in all, stiffer, maybe harshened up, but way better motion and control. Moog ball joints. The rear shocks are Ridetech RQ single adjustable which are quite nice. The problem with all this hard stuff...it kind of exceeds what your old body mounts can handle in a big car, read; body shake. Expect to replace all of them, which I was too lazy to do.

Whatever you choose to do, it's all a lot of fun adding all that nice stuff onto your ride. Even redoing it all in stock, cleaning it all up and making it tight again is always satisfying.

Cheers.

Mark is right on with his suggestions.  What a great upgrade. Ive been a passenger a few times.

I followed some of Marks suggestions and put in the strut rod kit and the upper control arm. 

The lower control arm was out of my budget.

I was able to get 4.00 degrees caster setting doing just the upper control arm.

I also added the rear axle upper mounts.  Mine weren't adjustable.

The rear stabilizer is stock and I have an aftermarket rear sway bar mounted to the trailing arms.

Goes flat through the corners.  Monroe shocks at all corners.

Its a cool car with the Classic Auto Air.

Enjoy your ride.

-- Edited by oshawacliff on Sunday 25th of June 2023 12:39:35 PM

-- Edited by oshawacliff on Sunday 25th of June 2023 12:49:28 PM

1967Parisienne wrote:

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thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience,    looking forward to being to do the same as I learn and move through the project.  I briefly looked at a coil over setup, i may reconsider now knowing it worked well  

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 Great looking project, nice!