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Old Apr 29, 2007 | 04:03 AM
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HELP please, suspension question...

Ok so I went out the other night to my favorite drift spot and I happened to make a long story short hit the curb and bent my control arm and broke my swaybar link, so I went and bot an s4 lower arm and link and replaced it, and now it looks like it is not as cambered out as my left wheel just slightly, andI have tein super sidways master coilovers with tein pillowball uper mounts so I know what my camber should look like, and it also pulls slightly to the right, so here is my problem I need an educated answer or even logical guess as to what it might be, when I was replacing everything I took a good long look at my cross member and all the metal around it to look for stress or any eveidence of a hit.
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Old Apr 29, 2007 | 05:02 AM
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did you just replace or the control arm, or did you replace the ball joint too? I've noticed control arms are fairly beef, but the ball joints bend like nobodys business. Tie rods like to bend too. . .
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Old Apr 29, 2007 | 10:59 AM
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so wheres the favorite drift spot? inquiring minds wanna know.
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Old Apr 29, 2007 | 11:26 AM
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me too, i dont know ne good ones out here in oly. lol. wtf didnt u drive out to the boonies lol.
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Old Apr 29, 2007 | 12:22 PM
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I love that short windey part of Pessinger road on the way out to Fossil Rock, its like a solid short mile of super tight turns, all 2nd gear stuff, its a blast! but short, and no curbs to bend your sheet on, just trees, hehe
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Old Apr 29, 2007 | 03:34 PM
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my local spot is out here in hawks prarie industrial area, I replaced the whole control arm with one off of another rx7, it came from an s4 and i have an s5 are those parts compatable
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Old Apr 30, 2007 | 12:59 AM
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i would think so, i think the only diff between two is if one has lsd or not, and tahts just axles you would have to worry about i dont think control arm has ne thing to do with it
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