Would anyone have interest in front tubular control arms? As expensive as the stock units are becoming I was thinking that tubular might be an alternative and a person could actually rebuild them rather than just replace the whole arm.
So my interest is not for a CV, MM, GM, or LTC application but rather a CV IFS swap into my '70 F100. I would rather put tubular control arms in it than the stock stuff.
Fatman Fabrications is making the CV front control arms but they are shortened for use on the CV style IFS swap into the F100's (http://www.fatmanfab.com/press-relea...r-control-arms). The reason they are shorting them is with the stock geometry arms you have to get wheels with some serious negative offset to get a decent amount of tire under the fenders. There are a lot of wheels out there that can tuck as much as a 295 width tire under the fenders of an F100 so that is what most of us have done. With that being said those that have already bought wheels do not want to buy these control arms and then have to buy another set of front wheels. I emailed Fatman and they have no intention of making a stock geometry control arm so my thought was maybe a vendor on here would be interested (CHE for example) being you guys are pretty much performance oriented and have done some pretty damn cool stuff.
Anyhow, between this site and the couple of CV sites and all of the CV typed IFS swaps that have been done on the F100's (several of those sites as well) I would think that stock geometry control arms would sell. Anyone every looked into this or have an opinion other than a go F yourself?
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Originally Posted by Aerocoupe
