Turns out you need to get the longest breaker bar you have and then stick a 4 ft long pipe on the end of that and tighten the dog phck outta the bolt going vertical thru the frame and lower control arm. They weren't tight enough and moving around under braking. After that it aligned perfectly and drives like a real car.
Now back to the 85. I am getting it in running condition to sell. Get busy living or get busy dying. My brother and I are going to build a Fox low buck drag car to play around with and hopefully in 4 years when kids are out of college and I buy my last house with a pool and a shop, we will finally build another hard core Buick 455 powered ride.
And if I can't sell the 85 in a timely fashion, I may just part out what won't be needed and go from there. Look for a lot of for sale ads. LOL
See, this is what happens to the hobby...
Life gets in between, and the hobby gets pushed. Kids come along, the car gets sold. If another one gets purchased when they get a little older and we make more money, it only lasts until something else gets put before it more important.
And it gets sold.
A car gets converted to a race car, it becomes the mega money pit, takes time away from the spouse, and it gets sold.
I've said it before. 8 out of 10 here will sell off the hobby car and either never return, or tell themselves that they're still in it when they purchase a belly button late model.
Once the late model romance cools,...that car too will get sold.
I think we're the last generations that are the stewards of the hobby. Out of however many active members that are here that have a hobby 79-93 fox... Between the ages of 35-60 ( let's say 20) 4 of them will still have something in 20 years.
Everybody else will have a Lexus.
I've went through all the life iterations, had a car, had a kid, sold a car. Bought a car, raced a car, tire of being with a bunch of guys on Saturday night instead of out with my wife, sold it. Bought a late model, got quickly bored with the sameness, sold it.
And now I got the monster. And it's only a matter of time......
It'll get the 2j,...whether that makes it more or less desirable, or more or less reliable I can't say. I'll drive the thing. I'll probably sell it one day sooner than later, for a crushing loss. Until then, I'm one of the 4.
Then,.... I'll buy a Lexus.