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So I ordered new front adj control arms from TTT for my rebuild of my front-end. Noticed the ball joint was mounted on the lower half of the control arm, thought about it and said hmmm haven't seen one fail. When installing them on the car - Rags mentioned to me hey those ball joints are on wrong. My passing reply - That is the way they have been installed via the pics and one install I found on the web. Understanding the load was being hung on 4 bolts instead of the flange should have been enough for me to swap it to the "correct oem: position but I didn't. Moved right along and installed them with TTTs bump spacer and it looked good, one side complete. I went to turn the rotor and grinding sound. The control arm leading edge was hitting the rotor face about 1/2" above the edge of the rotor. I am running the AZC brake setup. Stood back and you can see the angle of the tie rod and control arm were off. So apart it all came and moved the ball joint to the correct and I feel safer position. Put it all back together and now the rotor is resting on the edge of the control arm. So by moving the ball joint the control was put at the right angle with the tie rod. So I had to grind/cut the end of the control arm to clearance the rotor so it wouldn't hit lock to lock. The next issue I am seeing is how close the ball joint dust boots are to the rotors! I am thinking at a track event, the brakes will just cook that grease or even worst a melting of that boot and grease on the rotors. I am wondering how many are running the TTT arms with AZC setup or even AZC front brakes with AZC billet control arms? How does your angles look of your suspension and where is your dust boot located? This isn't a knock on the product just posting my experience. One thing I will say - I was surprised that TTT hadn't seen their products installed with AZC stuff. I couldn't find any pics on the net of the parts installed with a complete front strut setup. Lesson learned here is to use common sense and understand exactly what parts are doing what. Pics below show after the first trim where the rotor was hitting the LCA. As you can see, lock to lock it still hit and needed more trimming. TTT sent me an email of a drawing showing where the control had to be cut for clearance. I don't like cutting into brand new parts but sometimes it has to be done. Pic here shows the ball joints installed up top of the LCA right before the TC rod bolts were tighten down.
