1994formy

Gotta replace the ball joints and control arm bushings and figured I'd go to the 98-02 front brakes while I'm at it. I'd like to grab the lower control arms off the doner car as well so I can just swap em out. Are they the same?

FirebirdGT

Control arms are the same (except for the bushing stiffness) for 93-02. The spindles are different for 98-02 which you will need to use the 98-02 calipers.
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1994formy

Thanks man. That's odd about the bushings, just gonna go with the ES ones I think. Do you know if the upper control arms are the same as well?

FirebirdGT

The V6 cars have softer bushings.

If you want to use ES bushings you have to burn out the old rubber and re-use the metal casing.

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I'm re-bulding my entire front end. Got the upper and lower control arms, had the old bushings removed. Media blasted and powder coated the arms.

Will use new Moog bushings and ball joints - finally found a shop that would push the new bushings in 100 miles away. No one locally wants to do it due to possibly damaging the power coating.

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