Converting early A arm to later
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Very ingenious mod. The only downside I see is that if you get hit on that wheel and bend your a-arm, you'll have to make another one. I guess carry a spare for each side. How long does it take to fab one up?
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Are you wishbones not Parallel with the ground and sat at an angle as the car's lowered ?
I know you can get / adapt a longer rod Balljoint to cure this, I'm just wondering how your steel arms and the stock balljoint length does? and also do you think if a metal extension bar was made to fit inbetween the stub axle and wishbone balljoint it would be ok, as opposed to changing the ball joint to a longer version?
(I have fitted aluminium short wishbones with new Balljoints but they sit at an angle) it's street / Sprint use.
A lightweight 924 S car 2300lbs and 2.7 Engine / 205bhp etc...
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I know you can get / adapt a longer rod Balljoint to cure this, I'm just wondering how your steel arms and the stock balljoint length does? and also do you think if a metal extension bar was made to fit inbetween the stub axle and wishbone balljoint it would be ok, as opposed to changing the ball joint to a longer version?
(I have fitted aluminium short wishbones with new Balljoints but they sit at an angle) it's street / Sprint use.
A lightweight 924 S car 2300lbs and 2.7 Engine / 205bhp etc...
www.924srr27l.co.uk
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I have about 3 hours for the set of arms including boxing them a few years back. They are pretty stout, so it would take so much energy to bend them that it would destroy the rest of the front end doing it.
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I think to go late model steel arms one would have to go build a compete new arm, like Charlie Arms and such. I don't know if one can simply stretch the length of the OEM steel arm cleanly and structurally sound. Might have to look into that though. How much longer is the offset???
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How much longer is the offset???
Thoughts?