Good eye but seriously he built his own. Not exactly "hard" to do.

 

the only part that is the same as SPL is the heim. everything else is custom made. there aren't a lot of high misalignment spherical rod ends out there so that's why it looks the same.

 

Oh I see, cool man. Good to know.

 

Wrong, that dude built that ****. He used magnets. I have no idea how that **** works

 

So you ordered the super steering angle kit (comes with the inner rod spacers) and asked for the longer adjuster sleeves that come in the bump steer kit?

 

Just out of curiosity, why does everyone extend the ball joint bracket instead of the LCA? Every time you got new ball joints you'd have to modify the bracket again. Seems like it'd be easier and stronger to just modify the lower control arm.

 

How often do you seriously replace your ball joint on a car that gets like 5k miles a year?

 

Good point.

 

plus welding flat barstock steel is way easier than welding on cast aluminum with facets and rolls and stuff.


i ordered them separately about a thousand years apart but basically.

 

just modified my lower arms to stop rubbing and get more lock. already had 25mm longer balljoints and 17x9.5 -2. hopefully strong enough, time will tell.

 

did you just notch it out (for wheel clearance) then weld that alum. plate in? or did you do anything else?

i was just thinking about doing that the other day when i was looking at the new PBM LCA's.. i figured you could do something like this (as long as its welded properly) and not loose strength, and a top of having notched LCA's, that route has got to be cheaper than buying PBM LCAs (when they come out). Best of both worlds.

 

I actually just moved the entire edge of it further inboard and welded that together, then plated it on both sides for extra strength. didn't take any pictures before i plated it, but here's a pic of the template I mocked up.

basically the black template is the piece that I cut out, then moved inboard and notched down into the arm to create a total weld the whole way around.

 

I did this before I extended my ball joints, first ripple strip I clipped at the track and the arm bent in half. Ended up going back to stock arms with extended ball joints was the solution. So far plenty of ripple strips and off the edge of a cliff hasn't bent them. Personally I will be buying the pbm arms when they are available.

 

pics!

 

ok so let me get this straight. when I get my abercrombie knuckles and extended balljoints can I just get the mazdatrix super angle tie rod ends?

 

Here are my control arms from DCW! Not alot of pictures of extended LCAs on here so here ya go..

 

I got the mazdatrix kit for my setup but the threaded centers for the outer tie rods are a bit to short if you go with a big extension. in the pictures i posted of mine i had to have those blue extenders made also. other than that yeah pretty much.

 

well did you get the bump steer ends or the super angle ends?

 

The super angle kit with the spacers.

 

wait they com with spacers for the inner tie rods? they fit power steering racks right?

 

yes, they fit everything except the 86 non powersteering rack or something ruther.

 

Yeah they come with spacers. The bump steering kit is just tie rod ends. So actually if you could get the super angle kit with the bump steer kit tie rods you wouldn't need the extenders.

 

Sick Frankiek! I forgot all about DCW how much did he charge for the new balljoint holes if you dont mind me asking? Pm me on it