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Old 09-23-2023, 11:36 PM
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Originally Posted by KEN CROCIE View Post
B-Man--I should have supplied bump steer spacers with the kit. Believe it or not , I just thought of that last year ! But I had very few complaints about bump steer problems.
Dale-O: Ken's GTO
The GTO seemed to drive just fine actually, it was just when I started bracket racing it exclusively that I removed the H-O Racing front suspension parts.

Later on I repurposed the same kit pieces but added the Hochkis upper control arms and ran that setup on my ‘64 Tempest while swapping to ‘78 B-body spindles and 12” rotors, I thought it was great in every aspect. I’m not such a sophisticated driver that I ever really noticed any bump steer issues.

Then I went crazy and put SPC control arms, AFX forged aluminum spindles and C8 Z06 14” discs in the front when I was bitten by the Pro-Touring bug, project creep.

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