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[ALLAN R]

The rubber at the top of my springs is just a fairly thin ring that fits over the last coil of the spring. I think it is just to avoid metal to metal contact between the spring and the inner wing. They seem to last up ok. I also fitted the slightly stiffer 620 springs to my car when I did the Shelby...

[ALLAN R]

I see you are in Kent. Are you anywhere near me?

[ALLAN R]

I looked at the Summit racing picture of the springs and it looks like the springs shown are tapered in diameter and fit in the stock location of the inner wing and then come down to the shock absorber. The springs on your shocks look to be part of the coil over shock system and are parallel springs....

[ALLAN R]

The weakest point of the stock front suspension is the spring perch bracket and the two bolts that hold it to the UCA. The whole weight of the front of the car is supported on the small area of the perch bracket shaft where it has been flattened for the two bolts holding it to the UCA. Following that...

[ALLAN R]

I am not sure what you mean by taking the weight off the rubber bushes. I understand the bit about the top of the mount hitting the bonnet but the shock upper shock brackets are quite tall...

[ALLAN R]

Yes you will have to get the springs off but at least you can get the suspension units off the car to use the spring compressor on the bench. The stock spring is 380lbs/in. With that non std set up I would pull the springs on both sides and leave the anti roll bar attached then you can make both sides...

[ALLAN R]

Thats good to hear...

[ALLAN R]

I am not familiar with that setup as its not standard and you have a different upper control arm. . I see you have also had the Shelby/Arndt drop done and the upper control arm looks like it has the ball joint plate welded at an angle to compensate for the change of angle to prevent the upper ball...

[ALLAN R]

Very often if you have bottomed the shock out you damage the valve in it which maybe why you cannot move the suspension.

Some more explanation of the exact set up and photos would be good. Is the bump stop on the shock?

[ALLAN R]

It sounds like you are losing a lot of volts between the battery, ignition switch and return to the solenoid. The ignition switch may not be up to the current needed by the new starter solenoid. The wiring on these cars is quite old now and on my car I have replaced the original power wire from the...

[ALLAN R]

If I understand this correctly when you take a feed direct from the battery to the starter the starter will turn. If you put the wire from the ignition switch to the starter it does not turn. This leads me to believe that there is a problem in the ignition switch loop. .In the normal set up there is...

[ALLAN R]

ON the fast idle check the ignition timing. It could be that or a vacuum leak somewhere.

As for fuel pressure regulators and gauges you can use someone like Demon Tweaks....

[ALLAN R]

Ultimax seem to be the ones for normal driving but I have used the red ones and they seem ok. When you look at the EBC site there seems to be large overlaps in their statements about each grade of pad making it difficult to see the best for your application. If your brakes are really cold the red ones...

[ALLAN R]

If the engine was cranking ok I guess the black lead smoking is getting to the limit of the chargers starter function. I have bought jump leads in the past which have done this and proved to be of no real use. The big V8 is a chunky engine to crank over.

As for the fuel flow make sure...