Well, my buddy JB (being the guy that he is) enjoys a challenge. His quest......design and build a complete billet suspension.

Here is a shot of the front upper components before installation. The goal was to improve on the stock design by creating a lighter, more adjustable, reliable, modern solution that he plans to offer the Pantera community.

The kicker is that the retail price for the complete set will be around 3k including all hardware, ball joints and detailed installation instructions.

I have not seen a package from the current vendors that includes all the hardware and ball joints, is fully adjustable and uses off the shelf replacement parts. Plus has the castor camber adjustability included in the purchase price.

If you purchased a billet suspension package (8 a arms) from any of the other vendors at 2300 +/- advertised price, you will still need to  spend the money for the ball joints and nuts and bolts for the mounting to the frame and possibly additional cost for bushings if they are not included in the initial purchase price..

The total cost for the ball joints is somewhere around 1500 dollars (depends upon where you source them)....then you would have to buy the bolts unless you chose to reuse the old 30 year old parts and they are not adjustable.....I think JB may have designed a winner here.....

The old expensive and hard to find ball joints used through out the system are replaced by modern, easy to find units. The one item that JB wanted to attempt was to allow the user to find replacement parts at the near by auto parts shop. All the bolts, nuts, bushings, ball joints are included with the kit allowing for a true bolt on solution.

The castor and camber settings on my stock arms were at the maximum adjustments. The suspension was as good as it could get with the stock non adjustable gear. The new upper front has a castor plate that allows a much larger range of adjustments. The plate is pressed in to the arm and the set screws provide extra insurance that the settings are maintained after the alignment

Adjustments are made via screwing in and out the rod end from the arm.

The rear upper and lower a arms have been installed and mounted to the stock uprights and brake assembly. These will be swapped out for billet uprights and new brake system when JB is ready to cut on the CNC. We gots nice adjustable rod ends at all four mounting points. There is no need to shim the pockets.  The stock bolts will be replaced with some new 12 mm grade 8 when it arrives later this week. By the time we called it quits the first evening we had the rears completed. The 15x14 bassets look at home under that group 4 flare...

The rear suspension looks mighty fine.

I can finally get a proper alignment!