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chillywilly263
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:57 am 
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onelegmurphy wrote:
Okay sirs and mam's, it's that time!
The corona is mobile!!!!!!!!!
......mostly......
I'm still having some issues, but I got to drive it finally!
Here's a pic of it's current state, I don't really have any thing out side of driveway pics, but I will get some good ones once I get it running right.

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and for refrence, this is 3 inch blocks on rear, front springs cut to 11 inches, and wheels are 15x7, 0 et

Can you give me some details on how you measured the front springs? I haven't really looked at mine yet, but did you measure them out of the car, or on the car under load?
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onelegmurphy
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That is out of the car, uncompressed. I ink they are like 15 inches long end to end, stock.
A first I took 2.5 coils off, but it wasent enough, so I went for a little over 3 coils, if that helps. It ended up being about 11'' end to end.
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chillywilly263
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onelegmurphy wrote:
That is out of the car, uncompressed. I ink they are like 15 inches long end to end, stock.
A first I took 2.5 coils off, but it wasent enough, so I went for a little over 3 coils, if that helps. It ended up being about 11'' end to end.

Thanks.
I bought a 3" lowering block kit on my lunch break today. :D
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superboosted
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Cut to 11" is LOW,save yourself and cut to 12" first....You could always use a rubber spring isolator to lift it a little after the fact...

My car with 11" springs and a 3" block in the rear. Zero suspension in the rear,it sits on the pinion snubber,but actually doesn't ride bad.. :twisted:

It is the sexy beast i knew it could be now...

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onelegmurphy
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looking good!! I like the muffler too!
Yeah its super low, I have to drive up on blocks to get a jack under my car, but for me, its totally worth it.

I also just realized I called you supermoose a few posts back, :oops:
I dont know what came over me!
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My next move is to make adjustable upper control arms to get some camber...and I have an independant miata rear/subrame sitting here as well :)
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Mine is about to get real nasty going to bag it on 2500lb bags in the front and cut the pockets some and in the back mine is sitting on the snubber just going to air shock it in the rear for now but I got a rat rod datsun that i may scrap and out the rear in my corona

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ben
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3tcRob wrote:
Mine is about to get real nasty going to bag it on 2500lb bags in the front and cut the pockets some and in the back mine is sitting on the snubber just going to air shock it in the rear for now but I got a rat rod datsun that i may scrap and out the rear in my corona


Bagged Corona = sickness!

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cirespeed
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Man i'm loving the blue and gold corona! I wanna get mine lowered. did any of you had to get new bushings for up front? and how long did the front and rear drop take?
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renbi
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15" wheels right?? damn it looks great...but i think the rear wheels need couple spacer so that it will look like the front!! the front wheel setup is nice :tu: :tu:

comment mine guys:
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onelegmurphy
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15" wheels right?? damn it looks great...but i think the rear wheels need couple spacer so that it will look like the front!! the front wheel setup is nice Thumbs Up Thumbs Up


Thanks renbi! yeah there 15x7s et0, Thanks for mentioning spacers, I was kinda starting to think the same thing, I would have to roll the fenders more because the solid axle means no camber(boo) but I think your right, it would be worth it.

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Man i'm loving the blue and gold corona! I wanna get mine lowered. did any of you had to get new bushings for up front? and how long did the front and rear drop take?


Thank you! I dident replace any bushings in mine yet, I am planning on it, but I haven't really looked into it yet.
And as far as how long it took, It all kind of depends on how smooth everything goes, like if you have the right tools, if stuff breaks, etc. But if all goes well, I would say like 4 - 6 hours, if you have every thing you need, and know what your doing.....which I did not when I did it...so it took like 2 days, but then again I'm an unorganized mess, if you couldn't tell by the rambling, yikes.

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Mine is about to get real nasty going to bag it on 2500lb bags in the front and cut the pockets some and in the back mine is sitting on the snubber just going to air shock it in the rear for now but I got a rat rod datsun that i may scrap and out the rear in my corona


And 3tcRob, bags are for groceries.......

Just kidding! I"m very excited to see how that turns out!!
definitely looking forward to seeing a corona with some epic lowness.
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onelegmurphy
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New pictures, old angles.

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Lowering makes it look 1000000000x better.

Love the new pics,we need to do a JNC cruise this summer.

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Like the new stance. :D Are those Konig rewinds your car is sporting? They look great on it.
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Why yes they are. I accually got them for my s13 like 5 years ago, and then put them on my s12 right after that. And then they where just in storage for like 3 years waiting to go on a car.
Konig rewinds are like Some girls you see at the mall, sure there skinny, and fake, but it dosent mean they don't look great.
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Can't see the rear but that front stance looks great :)

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nice, i love the stance...
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chillywilly263
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Got some more questions about your lowering blocks. Did you buy a kit with u bolts and everything? The kit I bought came with u bolts that are quite too big. I'm trying to figure out a solution so I can install everything.
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onelegmurphy wrote:
oH awesome! Are you getti g the twin tip kind? I love those, you need to post up a audio clip when you get that installed.

Yeah I have a accel coil on mine too, but couldent get it to run with the stock stuff, so I made one out of GM parts. Yeah, i know. It's weird. But it runs, but I can't get my timing right and and I have to turn the fuel pressure up on the regulator to 5 psi to get it drivable.
So I need the stock stuff, I'm going to check the pull a part locally first but. Will let you know if I need those parts.



im running a 20r with a chevy coil and chrysler ballast resistor and mine runs fine. whats your exact set up?
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3tcRob
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all u guysz got to do is get a chevy HEI module with a 12v coil and u jave cheap msd without any ingintor or resistors or anything

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