speedway motors tubular control arms
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This would make a nice sticky. This question gets asked a lot and there is mucho good info here.
The UB Machine arms are listed at 8 inches long. I am pretty sure that the stock a's are 8 or 8.5 inches. Are you using alot of shims?
thrashin said:
That special part number, found on their "special applications" page is shorter I believe. The stock arms are 8 inches, you need around 7" for the tall spindle conversion.
I just put a set on my S10, i used two right side arms and they went on just fine. I called speedway and they said to torque the cross shaft bolts to 55 ft/lbs for the aluminum cross shaft arms in case anyone was wondering.
They give you quite a bit of negative camber also I noticed, along with putting the balljoint at a pretty extreme angle. I have a pretty tall vehicle though, a lowered vehicle wouldn't have such an exagerated condition with the ball joint.
Horsepwraddict said:
Yeah they do not have the same drop built into them that some of the other after-market ones have. As long as you don't hit the limits of the balljoint at full droop it should be OK, if not ideal.
They really give you a lot of negative camber? Maybe that's related to your ride height as well... they are supposedly the same length as the stock arms, maybe .5" shorter, but most G-bodies need around .5" of camber shims for spec. alignment anyways, so it works out OK. I don't know about an S10.
So these are okay for the street even with bumpy roads etc. I really like the look and the price!
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