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I recently asked about the brake kit for MII spindles and got some great advice to look at the kit from Speedway. Looks like everything I need to get at a decent price. Now, I had found a salvage yard Pinto front, but they wanted $250 for it. Is there a source that has good prices on the control arms and spindles? I'm just trying to keep all of things I need to add at a reasonable price.

I believe the Pinto would have to be at least 20 years old. I owned a 79 and I don't think F*&^ produced them much longer. Check with NAPA for the price of parts to rebuild before you make a decision to buy it. You may find the price pretty high.

I know what the rebuild kit costs, thats why I'm asking about sources for "new" parts. I was hoping some of you guys may have gone down this road before. Everyone sells these nice kits for a small fortune. I'm trying to get by for less. I don't need tubular everything, I just want to use stock components with the bolt in crossmember from Chassis Engineering Inc. Does anyone have a source for these parts???

Excuse my ignorance here as I want to make a comment or two but don't know the exact answer.
First off is the PInto the same as the Stang II???

When I did my 37 I actually went to a junk yard and pulled the
A-arms, springs ect off a 78 MustangII that had a V8 in it because the V8 had heavier springs! I also got the brake booster and rack and pinion to use as cores for news ones at the local parts store. All for less than a $100 but I did the grunt work to take it out.
Next: The local parts houses can get the bushings for the Arms and ball joints to. I had a friend weld the cross member in a long with the spring towers to which the A-arms bolted.

Saved a lot of dough. The guy who did the welding used a bare block to also weld me some motor mount brakets to the crossmember and two places on the cross member to bolt my rack and pinion on. Then I ordered rotors with the Chevy bolt pattern to fit on the StangII spindles. The only thing I would change is I also used StangII calibers and I wish I had went ahead and used the bigger GM rotors/calibers....but it still stops pretty nice and it also save me a dollar or two.

This may not have answered your question but I hope it helps in some way. My StangII front end has never gave me any problem.

Thanks for the comments. The Pinto is the same except the strut rods differ slightly.

Chassis Engineering Inc. has a bolt-in crossmember and that is the way I have decided to go. I wanted to use everything else as stock components and called around to local yards. The cheapest front end I could find was for $250. I feel this is too high for what I would be getting off of it (upper and lower control arms, spindles, and rack). I would still need to replace all of the bushings, etc and the cost would add up in a hurry. I don't think I could buy the brakes for any cheaper than the Speedway kit.

I plan to purchase the CE crossmember and the Speedway brake kit. Does anybody know where I can find upper and lower control arms, spindles, and a rack for a decent price? I have access to a sandblaster and don't mind putting in the time & effort to rebuild the parts.

Thanks for any help guys!

Dont know if they still do, But Speedway had STOCK mustang II suspension parts available. If memory serves correctly it was right around 250-300 for everything except the rack which you should be able to get from a parts house for around $150.