FOXBODY AJE Front Suspension Kit - Why I think AJE is the Leader - Episode 19
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2021
- A look at AJE's front suspension kit for foxbody mustangs + EXCLUSIVE fox mustang "game changer" product announcement from AJE.
Check out their MODULAR Y2K-member! With EcoBoost 2.3L motor mounts, Coilover kit, front tubular A-Arms and Strange Struts. Their K-Member allows you to swap engine mounts without changing the K-Member! They even have Godzilla mounts.
Project EgoBruise our 2.3 EcoBoost 1979 fox coupe is getting a massive front-end upgrade, in what I think is an "Industry leader" in components for our fox mustangs. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
AJE for the win! Your car is gonna be awesome!
Man I am so glad I watched this I’ve been looking for a k member for my fox project. Your the man. Thank you
Awesome video brother! Its super cool that these parts are available for your swap situation... I excited for this build bro! Cant wait to see it come together!!!
Appreciate it Tony! Watchin your new vid now man, excellent content as always.
Great stuff and thanks for passing along the AJE info.
That's awesome! I was planning to purchase from him and that seals the deal!
Great guy and place to work with. He legit knows his stuff.
Excellent video and information Mike,congratulations on the new front end parts! Looking forward to the install...👍💯
Appreciate it man!
Whoa that spindle sounds amazing, I'm rethinking my cobra brakes upgrade now.
Thank you for this upload. Ive heard Nothing but great things about AJE and have been going back and forth on what Kmember I wanted on my Fox build. This def made up my mind
Excellent, glad to hear. Shes not on the road but fit fit and quality for me has been fine. Super happy with AJE.
That really is a great selling point that you can put any engine in it with little work. Thanks for sharing. Take care, be safe, and have fun regardless.
You bet! and yes, its neat that "if" I want to godzilla swap it later on I can without complete K member replacement.
Thank you for the heads up about the spindles. I’ll definitely be looking for their booth this year at SEMA to talk to them and see them. I had already purchased all the Caddy Brembo stuff and had them powder coated but haven’t taken the time to reassemble and install yet. I think I’ll be selling them and going this route instead. Keep up the great work Mike! This car I super exciting to watch come together.
Appreciate that man! Yeah, will be a very neat product. ME personally, Im not sure I'll NEED a brake that large.
Just finished installing my AJE K-member and everything fit perfectly. No need to slot anything. Also installed LT headers, fit was snug but nothing a few taps with the hammer couldn't fix. Definitely recommend AJE for LS swap foxbodies.
Awesome! Man yeah I'm surprised how well mine fit. The slotted thing I almost expected with mine being a 79.
Just put that kit on my 1990 LX with the Strange struts.
Gonna go with AJE for rear suspension too.
Nice. Let me know how you like the rears
Awesome video! was on the fence with AJE but I went for it for our LS swap drift car and so far so good!
Bra, It's been good seeing another one if your video's...
Best thing I've seen for awhile... I love that info one the spindle upgrades. That smashing....
Thanks man. More coming I promise. Unlike other youtubers, this is hardly income so family and job, and life come first...then I try to relax workin on foxes and filming it for folks.
Awesome....
I love it bro, keep it up.
Wow Glade I went AJE! Good stuff!
Already have my aje crossmember installed. Really nice k member.
I’ve been planning an ecoboost fox swap but was worried about fabricating mounts, this is perfect!
Yup. Hardest part....done. lol
@@HOUSEOFDULA Are you planning on running AC and Power steering?
@@bluegrassgarage - AC is a must, likely will run Power steering, but thats in the air. If I do run power steering will power it from a volvo elec pump.
Damn dude you are the man for this video. I had no idea I had to order spring perches to keep the stock suspension. My goal is to get my car rolling again to get it to a shop for rust repair. When I was installing my lower control arms today I panicked because I thought I had to spend another $1k in tubular a arms and coilovers. Seriously thank you so much 😄
Sweet! you bet. So glad it helped you out. Good luck on the build.
Cool stuff man!
Killer video man!!!
Thank you Tad!
Looks good, I just bought my detroit speed rear coilovers and MM lower control arms. Love the project looking forward to seeing the Caddy Brakes. Might change my mind on buying them
Right on!Probably keeping the caddy brakes. Not certain, but a 14 or 15" brake is HUGE especially for this light of "street" car, no road racer.
@@HOUSEOFDULA exactly, little eco-boost with that front end isn't going to need the big binders even if you take it to a track for a day to get the suspension dialed in just how you want. I'd sure listen to AJE on setup.
Love my aje member, also got the trick flow matching long tubes, by stainless work's
Great video, I've been thinking of rebuilding a stock kmember with new paint and parts but the weight saving and suspension customization is quite attractive for these new modular kmembers... 🤔
Either will work well for you. Can always get the Arms, then later if you replace motor do the K-member then.
That is nice Mike!, might need to upgrade the 86 too! Lighter stronger faster
Man no kidding. lol The 86 needs love now too. One thing I regret...not swapping K-member when I had that motor out.
Awesome video! Appreciate the continuous Mustang content. Not enough on the older stuff nowadays. I may have missed it, but what did you do with the a arms with the spring buckets? I just bought the same K member and need those a arms and the k member mounts for springs. From what I have seen the AJE also provides the most header clearance than any other K member
Thank you! So, I had them both to show. Im using the coilover A-Arms, but AJE sent me the coil bucket ones to show on camera. Im sending them back to AJE.
Is this K-member good for daily? Is the handling good?
Gonna be nice!!!!!!
@3:28 When you said "the hide rith" instead of ride height i snorted😂 I said the same exact thing in one of my videos like 4 times. I had a lot of editing to do.😂
Dude at some point you just send it lol Sounds like you know. I already spend way too long editing, every once in a while a word fart or brain freeze happens lol Im like eh whatever....I'll check out your channel.
@@HOUSEOFDULA My biggest is "uhhs and Umms"
I bet i cut out 20 a upload .lol
Nice!!
Just ordered one for my 5.4 Fairmont project.
Fairmont's are so cool. What motor?
@@HOUSEOFDULA 5.4 4v
@@todds5956 Right on!
Doing Gen3 10r80 swap in my 90 Fox. I will be giving them a call and asking if the k member fits with kooks headers. Great video. The headers are supposed to use Max motorsports k member but if this system works all go this route. Thanks
Cant say for sure, but def worth a shot to ask.
The AJE has more clearance than the MM for headers. The only issue I can think of is that the MM K member changes the geometry of all of the front suspension. If you have a set of Kooks built specifically for the MM k member you may run into some fitment issues
@@jfisher99999 Thanks for the info. Yeah, kooks said they made the headers for the coyote swap for max motorsports k member but I'm sure others would work and just trying to get info.
Man, I wish my aje went in that easy, I actually had fitment issues with my aje in my 79 fox, I had to actually cut off a rear section where it mounts under the floor, I called aje on it and they actually sent me plates to sandwhich the k member free of charge and am happy with the service.
I also used their factory spring a arms and I absolutely hate that the spring doesn't sit in the lower a arm like the stock arm, compare the stock arm to the ajr arm and you will see what I mean.
Interesting. Wonder if there was sub frame damage or something on your car?
@@HOUSEOFDULA the front where the springs sit bolted in just fine, the rear pad on the k member was too long, which is just a build issue, maybe it depends on the factory it was built at as to how it was built, or maybe just a pace car issue, I really don't know.
Do the viking springs come standard on their coilover kits? Or did your order them separately
AJE gave me this kit to video and contribute to the build, but I was given nothing special a paying customer would have received. That being said I suspect the Viking brand springs are standard on the coil over kit. When you order the kit you can specify spring rate, so springs come with the kit.
So what happens if I need to shift the k member for alignment reasons I have to drill the holes? I’m juiced about the spindles
Yeah, this is only an issue with the 79-81 models I think. And no need to drill just kinda widen out the rear. You COULD redrill the cars fram, but I opted to just grind the clearance from the K member itself. The front driver side hole will help center it.
Sorry to say I sent mine back to Jeg's where I bought it. Didn't fit the factory holes at all. Also the front track width was going to be over an 1" in with factor arms. Don't know if there a arms are longer that stock but I didn't have time to mess with that or the alignment.
interesting. Like most projects, these old cars, fit is different from one car to another. So the total track width was 1" WIDER with their K-member and factory arms? Id be interested to see their thoughts on this, and I didnt mention becaseu frankly Im not certain, if they compensate with their arms, but I dont recall him mentioning NOT being able to use factory arms.
@@HOUSEOFDULA No my track with the factory arms would have been in over an inch? Might have called them and bought there arms if that would help, but non of the mounting holes lining up and was a deal breaker for me.
I went with all BMR front and rear suspension put new H&R rallysport lowering springs left and right floor pans welded a lot more areas which the factory should have did Detroit Speed through the floor subframe connectors I remove all the seam sealer from my 90 fox cleaned and sand it and then epoxy primer and then seam sealed everything for my sealer wouldn't be over bare metal and then a proxy primer over that now I'm ready for paint and underbody coating took it all the way down to the Shell 2 and 1/2 years ago LOL
Nice! This was a 3M product. I was a little woried about it going on bare metal, but the product sheet explicitly says it can be applied to bare metal and painted over. Figure the epoxy would have no issues sealing it. BUT, this was my concern at first. Im going to sand down the seam sealer, then epoxy, then filler, then high build. Taking the floor ALL the way down...not sure If Im going that far just yet ;)
In ordering one of these k members but i was curious if they make one for a camaro to install a ford engine?
That is a great question! I honestly do not know. Did you check their website? ajesuspension.com/
What was the weight savings with this kit?
I’m not seeing anything on their website about the brake kits yet. I’d like to upgrade from my 4 lug stuff.
Very early info here. I know they are waiting on parts like everyone else. I know he planned to unveil it at sema which is in November
@@HOUSEOFDULA I appreciate it. I guess I’ll have to figure something else out. I’m trying to stay withina budget. I just need 94/95 spindles and rotors and calipers from a 94-04 GT right? Seems like a different answer with every video I watch, very confusing!
I LOVE MINE
Glad to hear. Companies been a pleasure to work with and so far so good.
Gonna be a sick build! What length springs and springs rate did you go with?
Tahnks man! I need to look at length, but rate is light at 125, We'll see when shes on the ground.
@@HOUSEOFDULA Awesome, looking forward to seeing the progress! Thanks for the videos, ordering my AJE k member soon!
Does the aje k member keep the stock wheel base or move it forward like some others?
IDK if they make an offset, but this is stock wheel base.
Maximum Motorsports k members are like that, stock, 3/4 and 1.5 inch altering of wheelbase
Does that k member work for a 2.3t svo motor
No, not this particular one. This is ecoBoost 2.3 BUT not saying they DO, but call them, he might make motor mounts for a 2.3 lima.
How is this Kit doing still on your Foxbody? Is it good for daily?
This one should be fine for daily, time will tell since its not yet on the road BUT it should be fine just cant say yet since Im still building the car.
@@HOUSEOFDULA alrighty. Hope to hear an update on it in the future.
They were know for not being welded very well I hope they have stepped there game up
The choice of k-member very much depends on usage. For drag racing, a lighter k-member may be adequate. But if you're road racing a heavier car with sticky tires, you'll need a much stronger part. All k-members are definitely NOT created equal.
This is very true. You'll notice a difference with say t he MM K-members vs this one. AJEs are geared towards street and drag racing it seems, although they sell a kit that adds arm to this for more of a road race car as well. If this was an SCCA dedicated road racer Id likely use an MM one, but for for a large portion of us builders it'll be perfect.
Are you willing to sell me thos lower control arms for factory springs?
Jeese, these we're on loan from AJE for the video, they've since been sent back! Sorry.
Any word on the spindles?
The drop spindles? ajesuspension.com/product/79-04-mustang-dropped-spindles/
@@HOUSEOFDULA oh, I mis interpreted your statement on the spindles allowing newer s550 brakes to be used. Sorry, maybe I misunderstood.
@@coffeecan7440 Nope! I misunderstood... I had forgotten I mentioned the s550 spindle. Hard to find on the web site unless you search. ajesuspension.com/product/79-04-mustang-spindle-using-2015-brakes/
@@HOUSEOFDULA thank you sir!! I looked in fox section and didnt see them. Thanks a ton for all you do!
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