Global West offset a arm shaft

[SP5031]

I'm racking my brain here. Which way does the shaft need to be mounted to the frame. It will fit either way and I am over thinking this. Does the offset go towards the wheel or towards the engine?
Thanks for helping with a dummy question

 

[LS6 Tommy]

It should say "UP", "This side out" or something similar on the forging, but the offset goes towards the center of the car.

Tommy

 

[NOT A TA]

If there's writing on them ignore the writing. The shafts should be installed so that less shims are required to tip the top of the wheel in toward the center of the car to create negative camber. Many shafts were (or are) produced that say "wheel side" on the wrong side when trying to achieve negative camber.

I was told that the offset shafts were originally created to get correct geometry on vehicles where the frames had caved toward the center. In correcting the situation they were installed opposite of the way we currently use them to to correct geometry on lowered vehicles. The first set I bought from Global West were marked "wheel side" and I installed them that way only to fight with geometry issues and wrecking tires before determining that the offset shafts were backward of the way they should be used on a lowered vehicle. It was an expensive lesson.

This is the way they are used to achieve more negative camber without a huge stack of shims and allow more room for headers. Reguardless of what they are stamped.

Wheel
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ENGINE


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[SP5031]

Thanks guys. That is how I have them and then started thinking too much. No marking on these, just Global West on one side and the part # on the other side.

 

[liquidh8]

What TA said. Whichever way leads to using less shims., IOW, pushes the control arm into the engine bay. So the offcenter shaft would face the suspension, and the studs are closer to the engine.