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What mods, if any are you doing to the front end? Disc brakes? Tall spindle conversion? Stock drums? Rebuild the steering components at the very least.
I have a 69 Malibu and I am using the stock front A-arms for now, but the lowers were known for cracking, and especially if you put any extra stress to already stressed metal. I reinforced mine with additional metal welded around the inside and bottom. It will take a lot for them to break now. I also did a tall spindle conversion on mine since I had to change from drums to disc anyway. That got me the 12 inch Camaro 1LE rotors. Major improvements with little bucks. Junk yard spindles and over the counter rotors and calipers.
I'm going to try to stay with the upper A arms for now, but may go to a tubular later. I refuse to go with the expensive kits from the big boys though. A company named Spartan Rod Works sells the tubulars for tall spindle upgrade on E-bay. Much less than the "name brand" ones that used to be priced much lower than they are today. I guess they need more money though to pay for all that advertising and free kits they give away to the TV show rebuilds.
On the rear I bought the kit to weld in for boxing the stock rear lowers. Uppers I left "asi-is". I did buy the support pieces (frame stiffeners) that the SS's had. Hey, the stock components worked fairly well for 35 years, and my budget isn't unlimited for a complete frame-off. Too many other priorities to pay big bucks for a little improvement.
Steve
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