[mickey3d]

The most common way of lowering a car like yours,back in the 60's,would have been
to use lowering blocks (basically metal spacers) installed between the rear axle housing
pads and the spring in the rear.This mounts the rear springs,and the body, lower by
whatever thickness blocks are used.Extended length U-bolts are needed to replace the stock ones.
There are many ways to lower the front.They range from "insanely expensive",like
specially made front spindles,to the cheapest way that we used to do in high school.
We would find someone with an acetylene torch,put a couple of bricks under the
front bumper or frame(whichever one you wanted to set the ground clearance by),
get about 5 guys to stand on the front bumper and then heat the front coil springs
to cherry red and the car would settle onto the brick spacers.When they cool,remove
the bricks and drive away!
Others simply cut one coil from each front spring.I always hated th idea of cutting
a good stock spring.
Of course there are drawbacks to heatng the coils.One is that it reduces the space
between the coils,and therefore there is less vertical travel of the suspension now
before the springs become completely compressed.When this happens the suspension
bottoms out and can deliver a severe jolt when you hit an unexpected dip.
You might check out a J.C. Whitney catalog.They used to sell lowering block kits by
mail,and they also used to offer some coil spring clamps that were made to be used
to clamp the front coils down to where you like it by just tightening a couple of bolts.
I will check the exhaust manifolds you wanted this weekend to make sure they are
usable.I work in Plano on Jupiter Rd. just north of the Bush Freeway.We should have
no problem hooking up to get them to you.
If you will send youe email address,I will try to send you a couple of pic's of my
'40 Ford coupe project.
Regards...MickeyD