1985 CHP #8337 - My First SSP

[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.

[Mustang Kid]

Thanks Rich

So I would have to find springs and stuff off of an SSP? Could an 85 5.0 coupe be the same?

[28HopUp]

Sam, the springs/shocks/struts for a 5.0L GT or LX hardtop are what you'll need. The spring rates for a convertible MAY be different.

[93chipper]

or go to fox restoration and buy brand new springs, that way you have no wear on the springs or have to be concerned on the integrity of the springs i would also change out the ball joints since they are over 20 years old and it will save you a fender

[Mustang Kid]

More I'm thinking, I think I will wait on the suspentsion until I have all the new stuff together. Otherwise if I get it all apart, it may be a while before I can get new parts so the car would just sit. I don't want that to happen while other stuff can be done.

Could some of the 85s have had a dual gun rack? If I can't find out where my car served, I think it would be cool to put in a dual rack (if they came in a mustang in 85). I would be making one from scratch( using my some of my dads aero chp racks as a template. Then I would need measure ments for the rack to dash mount)

[mac88chp]

Originally Posted by Mustang Kid

Could some of the 85s have had a dual gun rack? If I can't find out where my car served, I think it would be cool to put in a dual rack (if they came in a mustang in 85). I would be making one from scratch( using my some of my dads aero chp racks as a template. Then I would need measure ments for the rack to dash mount)

No rifles were issued until 1989 so unless your car was still in service by then and been retrofitted (unlikely), it wouldn't have had a dual gun rack.

[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!

[Mustang Kid]

Originally Posted by mac88chp

No rifles were issued until 1989 so unless your car was still in service by then and been retrofitted (unlikely), it wouldn't have had a dual gun rack.

Thanks! Looks like my dads 90 will get the dual rack

Originally Posted by mac88chp

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!

It is very possible that my car was a PIO car, or that it went to another agency (like the 91 camaro), as it went to a private owner in 98 (from what I can gather).

[Mustang Kid]

Did a lot of work on Casper this afternoon. Stripped the interior, removed bumpers, taillights, fenders, mouldings and trim. Gonna try and start body work tomorrow. Everything appears to be very straight with no rust to be found on the body. There are just a couple surface rust spots though.




No Rust!!