This video is brought to you from WebridesTV and features Kevin Doyle, the sales marketing manager for Global West Suspension. He shows us a couple of control arms designed to be used with the 58 to 62 Impalas. He also mentions the upper and lower control arms, sway bars, coil springs, rear trailing arms, and more. When they develop parts for a car, they aim to deliver a line of products for the entire car instead of just one or two cars.
Global West Suspension focuses on designing parts for classic cars that have not been built for over 70 years. They see themselves going forward because of the new bodies being developed for these classic cars.
This company has been in business for twenty eight years now. Their website can be found at www.globalwest.net. On that site, the shopper can find parts for cars such as the 1955 to 1957 Chevy, the ’67 to ’69 Camaro and Firebird, ’68 to ’74 Chevy Nova, ’64 to 72 Chevelle and GTO, and many more.
In addition to suspension parts, they also offer a number of brake upgrades such as aftermarket rotors, aftermarket brake pads, and big brake kits. All the accessories for brake upgrades are also featured.
A convenient feature they offer on their site is a complete guide for a specific make. For example, they feature a guide for solving alignment problems on a ’62 to ’67 Chevrolet Nova. The guide suggests that the user replace the lower control arms to enable camber adjustments. It is recommended to change out the lower control arm bearings with spherical aircraft replacements.
The stock strut rod bushings should be replaced with high density rubber bushings for a straight alignment and stable ride. The upper control arm bushings should be replaced with the “Del-A-Lum” bushings for street and drag race applications. They are designed to last 120,000 miles and give flawless performance the whole way.
If the upper control arms are rusted out, they should be replaced with Billet Upper Control arm shafts which can fix excessive clearance between the shaft and the inner bushing sleeve. With these cheap and easy fixes, the alignment on your classic Chevy will be vastly improved.
