1985 CHP #8337 - My First SSP

[mac88chp]

Originally Posted by Mustang Kid

Just checked the EVOC car, I for got it didn't have any.
Are those straps hard to get? How would they mount/be used?

I don't see them around too often so you'll have to keep your eyes open for one. It simply clips to the eye bolt on one end and is threaded thru the front seat cushions and clips to the cuffs at the other end.

[mac88chp]

Originally Posted by Mustang Kid

I am going to rebuild the original carb and give the engine a tune up. My plan is to still redo the interior here soon, and get the car running good enough to drive. After that I will possibly do a full suspension/mechanical overhaul- repaint/clean everything, add new bushings to the suspention, and go through the engine installing new gasquets. Then in the spring start on body and paint.

Your car looks like it's lowered from the stock ride height. If you go with a full-tilt restoration you should restore it back to factory. Probably needs stock springs/struts/shocks to be swapped back in.

[Mustang Kid]

Wonder if springs out of a v6 car would be the smae as what my car needs( I have an 85 v6 convertible parts car).
I also wonder if my car had trim rings while inservice. There are the scarches in the wheels from trim rings. There is an inservice pic of an 82 on the chp restoration page on the main NET site.

[CHP8336]

Originally Posted by Mustang Kid

Wonder if springs out of a v6 car would be the smae as what my car needs( I have an 85 v6 convertible parts car).
I also wonder if my car had trim rings while inservice. There are the scarches in the wheels from trim rings. There is an inservice pic of an 82 on the chp restoration page on the main NET site.

No trim rings on your car Sam. The CHP did install trim rings on the 1985/1986 cars when they painted them and sold them.

[GSPI]

Springs and spring rates are specific to vehicle type and vehicle equipment in most cases. Most basic cars in general might have springs that will physically fit into another but the spring rate would be wrong. The higher performance a car is, the more significant a spring rate is used to get the car to handle correctly with all of it's components and it can be complex when looking at this problem. Mostly, V6 and V8 car springs are rated different simply because the weight of the engines might be different.

So Reader's Digest version Sam is that you really need to find the specific springs for your car that were designed to be in your car.

[Mustang Kid]

Thanks Rich

So I would have to find springs and stuff off of an SSP? Could an 85 5.0 coupe be the same?

[28HopUp]

Sam, the springs/shocks/struts for a 5.0L GT or LX hardtop are what you'll need. The spring rates for a convertible MAY be different.

[93chipper]

or go to fox restoration and buy brand new springs, that way you have no wear on the springs or have to be concerned on the integrity of the springs i would also change out the ball joints since they are over 20 years old and it will save you a fender

[Mustang Kid]

More I'm thinking, I think I will wait on the suspentsion until I have all the new stuff together. Otherwise if I get it all apart, it may be a while before I can get new parts so the car would just sit. I don't want that to happen while other stuff can be done.

Could some of the 85s have had a dual gun rack? If I can't find out where my car served, I think it would be cool to put in a dual rack (if they came in a mustang in 85). I would be making one from scratch( using my some of my dads aero chp racks as a template. Then I would need measure ments for the rack to dash mount)

[mac88chp]

Originally Posted by Mustang Kid

Could some of the 85s have had a dual gun rack? If I can't find out where my car served, I think it would be cool to put in a dual rack (if they came in a mustang in 85). I would be making one from scratch( using my some of my dads aero chp racks as a template. Then I would need measure ments for the rack to dash mount)

No rifles were issued until 1989 so unless your car was still in service by then and been retrofitted (unlikely), it wouldn't have had a dual gun rack.