update on Simons rear lower control arms

[Guest Anonymous]

Finished, fitted and aligned!

 

Some asked for a final report on how my control arms aligned and drove. . . here it is.

 

Did the final bits on my rear lower control arms the other day. .. .added holes for the sway bar links, and gave the arms a coat of black 2-pak.

Took the car to the aligners and asked him to just set it up close, as I had some more work to do on it. . .he said "sure. . thats all we'll be able to do today as we're very busy"

Came back in the afternoon and he walked out smiling and said "Bob (the guy who aligned it) loves your set up, he's set the whole car up and had no problems"

 

I asked him how much camber and castor could I get, through adjustment, on the back. . While he didn't give me actual numbers, he said. . .more than you can reasonably use. He also pointed to a new model Holden (GM) Commodore which has independant rear and said that mine was a breeze to adjust compared to one of them.

 

They set the camber to 1.5 negative on the front and 1.2 negative on the rear (cant remember the castor) but have a printout that I'll post soon. He set it here so I could get a feel for it and decide on what changes I'd like.

 

Ive only been driving it for about 2 weeks, but it feels very nice. Ive got a long trip coming up in 2 weeks so I'll post to the end of this thread with a detailed report of how it travelled.

 

Cheers - Simon

[Guest Anonymous]

Well hell I'm jealous.....

 

Let me know when you want to be the Australian Mike Kelly and market the stuff, I'm happy to be customer #1....

 

(Mike I'd love to be one of your customers but our $ is soooooo screwed at the moment... )

[Mikelly]

Chris has had more dialoge with Simmon than I have, but the bottom line on the type of control arm he made, and we came up with (Basically identical in design theory) is costly due to the lack of a significant part that needs to be machined. Simmon did an excellent job on his, and if he could find a source for that little adjuster, I'm sure he would turn them out by the dozens! Good luck, and I'd be happy to shipp a set to ya, but yes they would cost a bit more due to the exchange rate and shipping to the land down under...

 

Mike

 

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[Mikelly]

Simon,

I'm gonna start building the Jig for the rear control arms this weekend and the coming week...any tips would be appreciated..

 

Mike

[randy 77zt]

if you get some rear control arms built like simon's let me know.no heim joints please.i dont reset my car at the track.i set it up at work on 4 wheel hunter machine.simon's arms are what i need-adjustable but use oem or stock size urethane bushings to control noise.this would eliminate need for rear camber plates for me.i want a nice street car that can run hard at road race track when adjusted.i have had many different partson my car in last 4 years-right now i just need rear control arms.i got the noise out of rear.

[Mikelly]

No heim joints is the plan... Mine will be VERY close to what Simon made. I'm shooting for having something done up by end of May.

 

Mike