My Mullet Truck build

[Protour_Pinto]

Now that I had a frame I could look and brainstorm a front suspension, When I first thought of the project I was going in the direction of the Photochop but with a bed. Days wandering the Pick Your Parts armed with a tape measure and a note pad I looked at so many front ends, My goal was something that could be made to fit the Toyota frame, Parts to be found easily and something that had a rack and pinion and big brakes.

I finally settled on a Fox Body Mustang.

I did a bunch of research about what was out there and went on the next few Half Price Days and got all the parts needed except the brakes. I am going with Cobra brakes and I dont think I have ever seen them in any of the PYP type yards.

so what I ended up with is a Crossmember from a 89 V8 car, Struts, Spindles and Lower Control Arms from a 94 Mustang.

The crossmember is the heaviest of all that platform, Its also the narrowest and has the cheapest replacement manual rack and pinion.

The struts are longer on the newer Mustangs.

The spindles allow the 5 lug conversion.

And the lower control arms are wider and beefier with better balljoints. When going with the SN95 LCA you need to put longer outer tierods so I managed to wrangle some bolt thru parts from Maximum Motorsports.



I also scored some camber plates off craigslist that will correct the caster and camber.