Yes Denny I feel very fortunate. I'm not even mad about the messed up inner fender or brand new breather. We were clicking off triple digits just minutes before that happened. It could have been really really bad. No one was hurt and I didn't hurt anyone else which is always my biggest fear.
OK the cat's outta the bag! If you didn't notice from Denny's comment, I'm swapping to the HDK front end folks! No more torsion bars on my headers, no more steering linkages scraping the headers at every turn, no more pulling the engine just to get the oil pan off, headers will be so much easier to get in and out, no more nose diving and walking the road under hard braking, suspension geometry and travel will now be corrected with my lowered ride height (which is not great with stock suspension and no drop spindles), steering will be tighter, oh and how about all that extra room underneath plus some decent weight savings when combined with the Wilwood brakes over the stock brakes?! As a lot of you have seen on YoungGun's HDK thread, the swap looks like it will be a breeze. I'm leaving the engine in place for my swap but this shouldn't make it that much more difficult. I'll just need to hold the engine up with blocks and/or a hoist while I'm swapping the parts around. More than likely I'm going to take my time and do it over a few days, if it even takes that long. Most do it in one day but I like to take my time with things and make sure I don't rush and overlook something. As soon as the kit shows up, I plan on taking pictures of how everything was set up from Denny, disassemble the whole kit and send it to powdercoat, reassemble as Denny had it, then mock and install all in one step rather than mock, disassemble, powdercoat, reassemble, and install. Hopefully all goes well doing it this way and install goes as smooth as Denny's pre-assembly did. Stay tuned!
