Clanking on drivers side over speed bump
Look around the site and web for (advice on) handling parts first before you break out the plastic. A lot of good stuff out there but it's easy to make (expensive) mistakes.
If she's having that much fun with the Volvo, there is quite some upgrading to do on the Barracuda before it about reaches the same level.
x2!!!
You'll definitely want to figure out what's going on
BEFORE you start buying parts. The clunk could just be a bad ball joint, or anything all the way up to an LCA pivot that's broken free of the K frame.
Sure, there are parts that you'll want to swap no matter what, but it also depends heavily on what your plans are. For example, there's no point in rebuilding the current front end if you're going to swap to BBP disk brakes in a few months. You'll just end up throwing out a lot of brand new parts, because you might need to change your UCA's, spindles and ball joints to later pieces for the disk swap. But that depends on the brake kit you're going to use. And you might want to figure that out first, because a lot of the aftermarket disk brake kits require different spindles, both from what's on your car now, AND from each other depending on the kit. Making a choice on rebuilding parts of the front end, or keeping a certain set of spindles will limit your options later. Not to mention that your rim choice will also be heavily influenced by what brakes are on the car, and how much they change the track of the front end.
For example- the 13" rotors I run on the front of my Duster from Dr. Diff require a minimum 17" diameter rim, and add 3/16" to the track width (on top of the additional distance added if your going from drums to 73+ disks). They also use a 73+ disk spindle. Some kits use the early drum spindle. Some only use the later 10" drum spindle that used large ball joints. It all depends on the kit. But just to throw out a scenario for you, I had to swap my brakes, rims, and tires all at the same time, and I didn't even change bolt patterns. The rims that fit my 13" rotors would not fit the car without those brakes already installed because of the extra offset of the brakes, and of course the tire size was dramatically different, so there was no re-using of anything. Your 13" rims will mean a similar scenario, no disk brake will clear those. So, you'll have to go to new rims with your new brakes. And since the new brakes will likely change the both the bolt pattern AND the front track width, the new rims won't even fit on the car without the new brakes.
