Making the a-arms "wider"...besides camber issues,, what other "gotchas" will I hit?? |
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Making the a-arms "wider"...besides camber issues,, what other "gotchas" will I hit?? |
Mueller |
Jul 13 2005, 08:24 PM
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914 Freak! Group: Members Posts: 17,150 Joined: 4-January 03 From: Antioch, CA Member No.: 87 Region Association: None |
Trying to figure out if I can safely go 1" per side to make the front track the same as the rear....I currently have 1.25" thick spacers, so I could eliminate those which would be nice.
I figure not that big of a deal on the camber since that is easily fixed by opening up the top of the shock tower (salvage title car, so no worries about "ruining it" (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif) ) For those that have installed turbo-tie rods, do you think there is enough adjustment to move the ends out an inch per side??? Attached image(s) |
J P Stein |
Mar 28 2006, 06:56 PM
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Irrelevant old fart Group: Members Posts: 8,797 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Vancouver, WA Member No.: 45 Region Association: None |
I've stared at this till I'm blue in the face and can't come up with any way to allow a larger backspace wheel/tire to be used......short of throwing the whole works away & starting over. I guess I gotta look at a late model Porsche's front suspenders & see how they do it & if it can be adapted to the front of a 914. I hear that increasing the front track is gud, but I ain't going for someone's say so for a nut buster like that....unless they got a room fulla trophys. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)
All I want is to run a wide W/T set up without gawd awful scrub radius problems. Pushing out the top mount & the ball joint gain you nothing here.....as I see it. If you move out the bottom an inch or 2 & not the top, you can (or will) 10 deg negative camber (or so) unless you change the angle of incidence twixt the strut & axle.....and even that would gain you a bit more that half your movement of the lower arm. The strut housing would be at a greater angle(to the earth) & side load the hell out of it. I gots those problems now. Now,.... a guy could sneak in a sub frame & double A- arm set up..... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/idea.gif) |
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