Lower control arms Boxed

[Bradley G]

I finished a set of lower control arms for anyone who is interested .
I put an ad on E-bay for three days, any member here gets a $25.00 donation to this awesome site if they exercise the BIN offer.
[200466227137] this is the auction#

[SpartaPerformance]

What are you using for a bushing? That is where the real problem is.

[musclemerc]

Stock... but you do know back in the old day's when you bought CA's they re-used the stock bushins, but yeah, I will addresse the bushin issue real soon so stay tuned.

[Zack]

What are you using for a bushing? That is where the real problem is.

The factory bushing is the key piece to completing the CA puzzle.

Thats just my opinion though. ;)

BTW I never told you nice products you offer :up:

[SC Cheesehead]

The factory bushing is the key piece to completing the CA puzzle.

Thats just my opinion though. ;)

BTW I never told you nice products you offer :up:

Re-use the OEM bushings or no?

If no, what's the best option?

[musclemerc]

Re-use the OEM bushings or no?

If no, what's the best option?

Me thinks he meant factory bushins FWT.

[SC Cheesehead]

Me thinks he meant factory bushins FWT.


Gotcha! :D

[blazen71]

Re-use the OEM bushings or no?




That's what I did. Works great.

[Zack]

Stock bushings all the way.

I have 2 sets of snapped axles and 1.50 60' times to prove they are the best choice.

[SC Cheesehead]

Stock bushings all the way.

I have 2 sets of snapped axles and 1.50 60' times to prove they are the best choice.


Thanks for the replies folks, stock looks like that's the plan.

[SpartaPerformance]

The factory bushing is the key piece to completing the CA puzzle.

Thats just my opinion though. ;)

BTW I never told you nice products you offer :up:


Stock bushings all the way.

I have 2 sets of snapped axles and 1.50 60' times to prove they are the best choice.

Thank you for the compliment I appreciate that! As for staying with stock bushing because you snapped 2 axle sets I would disagree. Like you said the bushing is the key piece in a CA mod, you want to eliminate bushing deflection foremost with arm deflection to get most torque to the rear as possible. Breaking parts happens mostly when you have slicks and hook up, not so much with street tires and spinning. When you make 400- 500 RWHP on a 4200lb car you're going to break stuff axles, CA's, tranmissions, regardless if you have soft bushing, hard bushings, soft tires, hard tires or any combination of either. You really want to do a CA mod to add more stability and better driving manners to the vehicle as better launching.

BTW: Bradley looks like awesome workmanship on those arms, to bad you're not in PA I think my manufacturer is looking for a welder.

[Zack]

Thank you for the compliment I appreciate that! As for staying with stock bushing because you snapped 2 axle sets I would disagree. Like you said the bushing is the key piece in a CA mod, you want to eliminate bushing deflection foremost with arm deflection to get most torque to the rear as possible. Breaking parts happens mostly when you have slicks and hook up, not so much with street tires and spinning. When you make 400- 500 RWHP on a 4200lb car you're going to break stuff axles, CA's, tranmissions, regardless if you have soft bushing, hard bushings, soft tires, hard tires or any combination of either. You really want to do a CA mod to add more stability and better driving manners to the vehicle as better launching.

BTW: Bradley looks like awesome workmanship on those arms, to bad you're not in PA I think my manufacturer is looking for a welder.

Huge heavy car + non-forgiving bushings = broken bushings.

I know you use different bushings than Metco, so I cant present an argument as to yours becoming problematic.

Back when we developed our tubular CA's with Stock bushings, they were all the rage, then Metco came out with theirs and our design lost popularity. At the time Metco CA's were considered to be much better in design, function and looks...... years have gone by and the bushings have indeed proved to be problematic. There are many cases that have gone publically undocumented.

Not one set of our design has had a failure.

[SpartaPerformance]

To answer your question about the design of the bushing used in my CA's, they are custom made by a bushing manufacturer located near my CA manufacturer. The bushings are made with injection mold method as opposed to pour mold method used by other larger more popular bushing manufacturers. The injection mold method is more costly but it makes a strong bushing not by making it stiffer but making it more solid, the pour mold method has immense amount of tiny tiny air bubbles that can cause failure injection method does not. So far no failures here either but they are only 1 year old for Panther cars, but it's the same bushings used for over a decade in thousands of cars from mild street cars to track only cars with an honest failure rate of less then 1% on track cars only NONE on street cars. That is an impeccable record considering the amount out there.

[Bradley G]

BTW: Bradley looks like awesome workmanship on those arms, to bad you're not in PA I think my manufacturer is looking for a welder.(quote)
Thanks for your compliment, I did the pressing and the finishing.
A friend of mine has an auto shop and one of his employees did the welding.
I agree, he has done a terrific job on his welds, no failures on 5 sets LOL!

[bawazir]

BTW: Bradley looks like awesome workmanship on those arms, to bad you're not in PA I think my manufacturer is looking for a welder.(quote)
Thanks for your compliment, I did the pressing and the finishing.
A friend of mine has an auto shop and one of his employees did the welding.
I agree, he has done a terrific job on his welds, no failures on 5 sets LOL!

I went to ebay start my self from 60 and stop at 70, dammit i can't win it for 70 lol

[Bradley G]

So, what's it @ now? :P

I went to ebay start my self from 60 and stop at 70, dammit i can't win it for 70 lol

[Bradley G]

CA's sold thanks