I was looking at the welder series front mustang II kits and wanted to have some input from anyone on the forum. Likes or dislikes for using this kit with front coilovers or airbags. I'm about to start building a frame for a mini or a 4runner using a stock 84-88 toyota frame modified to use this kit and a Supra IRS.

 

actually your toyota front suspension is a much better design,I would keep it.

 

with coilovers the mustang front end is good, but if you wanna bag it keep the yota front end and get candospecialties control arms. The mustang II front end handles great cause it has camber ( actually a lot of camber) which is ok if you are static, but with bags you have to run custom arms to correct the camber which then defeats the purpose of running that front end.

 

I really want the coil overs with a stearing rack and big brakes, that's the reason for using the mustang II suspension. Willwood has 11-14" rotors with 6 piston calipers for mustang II spindles.

 

well if you are not going to bag it i guess you could use the mustang II kit with the BB upgrade. Sounds like you are doing a lot of converting of stuff that works good already. There is a way to bolt up supra brakes to the 88-94 spindles, or ls400 breaks, i forget someone on here did it already. It would save ya a bunch of money. If you are going to do the 6 piston breaks and what not you are gong to have to upgrade your master cylinder as well since your stock one will not be able to push enough fluid for those calipers.

Thats just what I would do with my truck, it is yours and that combination would work with some planning and good fabbing skills. I just dont have the wallet to afford that setup.

 

Yea I did the Lexus LS400 stuff....

If your after the big flashy huge rotors and calipers......

Use the 94 mustang cobra rotors and calipers. They are big enough, trust me. I havnt done it yet, but it wont be hard to adapt to a factory toyota hub and spindle.

So you know also. It takes way more tire and grip to be able to use half the stopping power big brakes give you. Even with the twin 36mm lexus pistons, I could easily slide the tires at over 100mph.

Im required to run 16's. ^^ Mustang stuff is 17in minimum.

O and the ride quality will go to shat too

Use the toyota suspension. It can give you what you need.

 

Ls400 calipers are pretty.

 

flaming river has a rack for a ford pinto that's almost spot on to be used with the stock yota clip from what I hear...89-95 anyway,earlier years may be different,idk

 

Wow. Just wow. Buy some 2x4 steel and weld the mustang front to that and the supra rear on the other side. Don't hack up the good 88 frame. Or look into 1995.5-2004 Tacoma's with steering rack and QA1 Camaro coilover conversion kits.

 

Can anyone tell me which balljoints the Cando A arms use.

 

they are the chrysler screw in style ones, the ones that are used ironically in the mustang II kits lol

 

That's great, then I could use the mustang II spindle and use the big brake kit I want and still have the same bolt pattern. All I would have to do is figure a way to fab a steering rack up to the frame and have the same thing.