1985 CHP #8337 - My First SSP

[Mustang Kid]

Just checked the EVOC car, I for got it didn't have any.
Are those straps hard to get? How would they mount/be used?

[calimustang]

Wow! after seeing how you washed it, my car hasn't been washed for 7+ years... but doesn't have green slime but DIRTY! Nice to see it being driven... hope you guys fix the stalling issue, it could be bad gas tank or fuel pump or fuel filter...

[Mustang Kid]

I am going to rebuild the original carb and give the engine a tune up. My plan is to still redo the interior here soon, and get the car running good enough to drive. After that I will possibly do a full suspension/mechanical overhaul- repaint/clean everything, add new bushings to the suspention, and go through the engine installing new gasquets. Then in the spring start on body and paint.

[mac88chp]

Originally Posted by Mustang Kid

I am going to rebuild the original carb and give the engine a tune up. My plan is to still redo the interior here soon, and get the car running good enough to drive. After that I will possibly do a full suspension/mechanical overhaul- repaint/clean everything, add new bushings to the suspention, and go through the engine installing new gasquets. Then in the spring start on body and paint.

Your car looks like it's lowered from the stock ride height. If you go with a full-tilt restoration you should restore it back to factory. Probably needs stock springs/struts/shocks to be swapped back in.

[Mustang Kid]

Wonder if springs out of a v6 car would be the smae as what my car needs( I have an 85 v6 convertible parts car).
I also wonder if my car had trim rings while inservice. There are the scarches in the wheels from trim rings. There is an inservice pic of an 82 on the chp restoration page on the main NET site.

[CHP8336]

Originally Posted by Mustang Kid

Wonder if springs out of a v6 car would be the smae as what my car needs( I have an 85 v6 convertible parts car).
I also wonder if my car had trim rings while inservice. There are the scarches in the wheels from trim rings. There is an inservice pic of an 82 on the chp restoration page on the main NET site.

No trim rings on your car Sam. The CHP did install trim rings on the 1985/1986 cars when they painted them and sold them.

[GSPI]

Springs and spring rates are specific to vehicle type and vehicle equipment in most cases. Most basic cars in general might have springs that will physically fit into another but the spring rate would be wrong. The higher performance a car is, the more significant a spring rate is used to get the car to handle correctly with all of it's components and it can be complex when looking at this problem. Mostly, V6 and V8 car springs are rated different simply because the weight of the engines might be different.

So Reader's Digest version Sam is that you really need to find the specific springs for your car that were designed to be in your car.

[mac88chp]

Originally Posted by CHP8336

No trim rings on your car Sam. The CHP did install trim rings on the 1985/1986 cars when they painted them and sold them.

Little embellishments like trim rings and pinstriping did show up on some, mostly PIO (public information officer), in-service units. This was especially true of the early cars when they were still quite the novelty, much less so on the later models.

Speaking of embellishments, I caught a dusey of one at a CHP event yesterday - simulated twin 50 cal. machine gun barrels protruding from the massive front winch bumper of a Dodge Ram MRE (commercial enforcement) unit!

[mac88chp]

Originally Posted by Mustang Kid

Just checked the EVOC car, I for got it didn't have any.
Are those straps hard to get? How would they mount/be used?

I don't see them around too often so you'll have to keep your eyes open for one. It simply clips to the eye bolt on one end and is threaded thru the front seat cushions and clips to the cuffs at the other end.