i'm still gearing up to start my swap and i'm hoping to find better springs and bushings and things like that, which obviously don't exist for cars like mine. i'm looking for a parts interchange list i can pour over and see if there'* any goodies i can steal off other cars and use on mine.

www.gmpartsdirect.com
Click on Catalog. Click "I agree blah blah blah".
Insert the year, model, and make of the vehicle you'd like crossed.

Browse for your part. Click on the part number when you find it and it tells you what else it'* used in.

to be honest, i don't know where my RPO list is, but i don't think anything would interchange...unless the bonnie has a solid rear axle...

well my van has the load leveler, but it doesn't have any RPO'* on the back plastic. at all. nor is there anything underhood. i just don't know where it would be...

i looked it up and it should be on the inside of the jack cover... but it'* not. the jack isn't there either... joy of joys.

as far as the rear suspension goes, i'm pretty much going to leave it alone, just replace it with new OEM equipment. then i want to rewire the electric load leveler so that i can manually control it.jack up the back end all the way so i can try and put more weight on the front wheels at the track...

i'd really like to find some springs, even if they're universals to drop the whole van about 1.5-2 inches. the thing is terrible top heavy and kind of scary in even slight corners. another eventual plan is to get lexan windows on the rear 5 windows, again in an attempt to move the CG down and forward.

as cool as it is to be one of the first guys to do something like this (i'm actually the second, credit given to fieroflyer), it sucks to be the first guy to do something like this.

and the second gen trans sports share nothing with the first gens but the names. steel bodied boring looking peices of crap.