Syclone#892
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Okay this is going to be long.
Currently my Sy has 2" blocks in the rear, my 2wd s-10 also has 2" blocks in the rear. Well I do not like blocks but the sy came with them, and before I bought my sy I planned on doing everything to my s-10 so I got all the parts to rebuild the front end since it had bad ball joints and what not so while I was at it I got drop spindles and did not have much left over so I used blocks with the plan of springs eventually. Then along came the sy and the s-10 is a daily driver and well it seems to suffer from the clunk that blocks get at times (heard from some s-10 owners) and well its finally getting real annoying so my thought is to kill 2 birds with one stone. I plan on putting a nasty 391 small block in the s-10 so that should lower the front some more and then I wanted a total of 3" drop in the rear, I think that will look good with the timeless 5's in 17x11. Well I am thinking of getting the bell tech 3" drop springs and putting them on the sy and putting the sy springs on the S-10. Would that work, from what I have heard the Sy's where lowered 2" from the factory, plus the fact that they are 12 years old with 70k on them so that would make them sit a little lower. I was also considering removing the overload leaf if it sat a little to high in the rear. I would probably get some poly bushings for the springs at the same time also. So what do you guys think am I crazy or would this work out. I figure that would give me just the right stance on the s-10 and possibly a touch too high on the sy but that would be fine and I would get used to it. Or the other solution would be just to get new springs for all but that would screw up the s-10 a little because the rear would be lower than the front till I got my small block.
Sorry for the long post and lot of questions hopefully some one can help.
Currently my Sy has 2" blocks in the rear, my 2wd s-10 also has 2" blocks in the rear. Well I do not like blocks but the sy came with them, and before I bought my sy I planned on doing everything to my s-10 so I got all the parts to rebuild the front end since it had bad ball joints and what not so while I was at it I got drop spindles and did not have much left over so I used blocks with the plan of springs eventually. Then along came the sy and the s-10 is a daily driver and well it seems to suffer from the clunk that blocks get at times (heard from some s-10 owners) and well its finally getting real annoying so my thought is to kill 2 birds with one stone. I plan on putting a nasty 391 small block in the s-10 so that should lower the front some more and then I wanted a total of 3" drop in the rear, I think that will look good with the timeless 5's in 17x11. Well I am thinking of getting the bell tech 3" drop springs and putting them on the sy and putting the sy springs on the S-10. Would that work, from what I have heard the Sy's where lowered 2" from the factory, plus the fact that they are 12 years old with 70k on them so that would make them sit a little lower. I was also considering removing the overload leaf if it sat a little to high in the rear. I would probably get some poly bushings for the springs at the same time also. So what do you guys think am I crazy or would this work out. I figure that would give me just the right stance on the s-10 and possibly a touch too high on the sy but that would be fine and I would get used to it. Or the other solution would be just to get new springs for all but that would screw up the s-10 a little because the rear would be lower than the front till I got my small block.
Sorry for the long post and lot of questions hopefully some one can help.
