sharky47

Got the main structure assembled today - late offset. Material is mil-spec 4130 steel - stuff is TOUGH...........arm is Tig-welded. What you are looking at is a *rough draft* and NOT a finished product. After I finish with this one I will get it heat treated/stress relieved and then send it to our engineer (aerospace) to make sure it is going to not just stand up to the stresses, but exceed the requirements by a wide margin.

More to come.........

xsboost90

dayum- i may need those...

KuHL 951

Good call on the replaceable early ball joints

V2Rocket

+1

Those look like the arms I saw on a LS1-conversion one time...any idea how much? (early fitment?)

You might want to get a hook-up with 944powdercoating before it shuts down...

Ballistic-Chapman

Amazing work so far! I'm also looking forward to your wing idea. Have you made any developments on that?

Camaro_Muncher

I love these little company's that make little mods for our cars. Keep it up sharkey you are really helping this community.

sharky47

Wing is a little ways off, I have the material - just not the time. It will be proven on my race car.

I will make these arms in both the early and late offset. I started with the late because my daily ride needs some new balljoints - perfect guinea pig!

I am so tired it's not even funny, I got home at about 10:00 PM...........

sharky47

Oh, and as far as the ball joints go - yeah - $15 a piece..........race guys can just replace them every event and not spend any real money. Plus, the mounts for them will by default correct the geometry issue with lowered cars......

Riff

Promising start. How are you planning on the geometry correction?

pjburges

Those are pretty nice tig welds, especially for a 1st rough fab. I may need some butted welds done to some aluminum pipe...think if I came by Fredericksburg you could help me out? These look pretty cool btw!!

jgporsche

control arms? what the hell you workin on those for??? we want throttle bodies.....lol!

DDP

Throttle bodies sound interesting. What are you basing the sizing/info off of for the throttle body?

jgporsche

he's going by the specs I asked for.

sharky47

I need the mill to finish the TB, it is tied up until Thursday afternoon. Figured I'd keep busy on something else.

Geometry correction - that's easy, since I am the one designing/building them I can make the angle of the balljoint mounting plate anything I want......

M758

How are you going to mount the crossmember? Seems to me that it might be a good idea to run square tube that runs lateral to the car direct from the ball joint mount and extend it into the crossmember. Then use the longitudinal and make sort of at T from it.

IE
B_________A
..............|
..............|
..............|C

Where B = Ball Joint
A = Crossmember
C = Casterblock

So the tube between B & A is one solid tube.