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Originally Posted by chevyrestoguy
Very cool!
With all of the improvements and the dimensional changes you have in mind, those are going to be a trick set of control arms. Do you plan to modify an existing lower control arm, or do you plan to build a custom one? I'm thinking that you'll build a new design, probably out of steel plate. That's what I would do.
I have a buddy who builds ultra trick ($$) high end off road race vehicles, and he builds all of his own control arms and beams. Absolute works of art. I was over at his shop a while back and snapped a picture of some stuff he had just finished welding. "Just a couple of simple brackets and and some limiter strap tabs", he said.
I love fab work, and I'm really excited to see what you're going to come up with. |
Man those are nice!! Send him over when he has some free time
I'm going to use tubing, probably 1 5/16" lower and 1 1/4" for the uppers. The bag mount will be plate, and I'll make a tubular X brace in the center to stiffen the arms. I bought 6' of 3/8" rod to mock up the shape of the arms first so I'll have a template for bending the tubing. Plate would work for the arms but I think tubing will be lighter; plate would have to be pretty thick (heavy) and I don't have a way to cut anything that thick.