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rear shocks have plenty of extra travel in them and do not bottom out at full extension as i tested this when i installed them, shackels are in good shape not bent or damaged and also are angled just right. mr p body i think you are right and the previous owner installed some heavyduty 340 springs or maybe even leafs that are rated for more weight. the leaf itself maintais a pretty uniform curve throught the whole thing front to back im not sure what you mean by the front segemnt should be relativly flat? my front defanitly follows the curve from the rear section. anyway where could i take the car to get them de arched????? is that something that i can have done with the springs on the car? cuz if i have to pull them off ill just upgrade to something that has the ride height i want from the get go. thanks i advance.

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Find a local spring shop in the yellow pages(or on
line) and take the car there... tell them what you
want and they can fix it

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Looks like someone put aftermarket springs on the rear...
take it to a spring shop and have the de-arch the rear
of the springs...

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I have super stock springs in mine and I found it way to high and the ride was like a stoneboat. I had mine de-arched (went to far actually) and it made all the difference in the world.

Actually, the pic in my sig was with the springs in their original form- with 500lbs of weight in the trunk and it was still to high!

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thanks mr p will do and hopefully have some pics of how it looks in a few weeks. and oh yea one more thing whats a good ballpart pinion angle for a 360/727/8/34 setup?? because im sure after fooling with it and a 3 inch arch it might get alittle out of wack. hopefully the susp shop can addres that to while its there. car is 80 percent street 20 percent strip maybe 5 times a year

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About 4 degrees pinion angle.. if it was a race car
you would want more

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I think Mr. P's suggestion will get the results your looking for.

Bellow is what original 340 springs sit like after 43 years. Hopefully there will be some mono leads on there soon.

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This is exactly the stance I'm looking for.bad 340 if you get a chance could you measure the distance from the center of the wheel lip to the ground and report back to me via pm? Thanks to everyone you all have been very helpful I will report back with pictures once the car is siting how I like

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If your suspension is stock, you could do alot worse. Higher ride height = higher CG = more rise = more weight transfer. You can add a ton of grunt, before ride height becomes an issure.

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Higher in the back end just makes it harder to get
the weight up and over the CG... if the rear was WAY
lower it would be easier to transfer the front weight back