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Technical & General Discussion Area => Technical - General => Topic started by: jiffy on August 11, 2009, 12:56:39 pm

Title: Lowering Upper Control arms - the 'Shelby Mod'
Post by: jiffy on August 11, 2009, 12:56:39 pm

(http://www.mustangphotos.com/photopost/data/500/medium/Upper_control_arms.jpg)

(http://www.mustangphotos.com/photopost/data/500/medium/Upper_control_arms2.jpg)

Title: Lowering Upper Control arms - the 'Shelby Mod'
Post by: moe on August 11, 2009, 01:05:19 pm

Seen this?

http://www.pdf-to-jpg.com/

Title: Lowering Upper Control arms - the 'Shelby Mod'
Post by: non member on August 11, 2009, 01:05:31 pm

Scan it & save as a .jpg that works for me.

Title: Lowering Upper Control arms - the 'Shelby Mod'
Post by: jiffy on August 11, 2009, 01:07:40 pm

I ended up cutting & pasting into Powerpoint - you can then save it all as a picture file - then loaded it onto a website and put the links into the page!

Took a while, but there it is...

Title: Lowering Upper Control arms - the 'Shelby Mod'
Post by: non member on August 11, 2009, 01:09:10 pm

Well done, now I know that as well! Thanks

Title: Lowering Upper Control arms - the 'Shelby Mod'
Post by: Frank70 on August 12, 2009, 09:37:39 am

This might be a dumb question - is this mod still useful on a car with a coilover front end (ie. RRS ) ?

I have the stage one kit that retains the stock upper and lower control arms.


Cheers,
Frank.

Title: Lowering Upper Control arms - the 'Shelby Mod'
Post by: non member on August 12, 2009, 10:40:11 am

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Originally posted by Frank70
This might be a dumb question - is this mod still useful on a car with a coilover front end (ie. RRS ) ?

I have the stage one kit that retains the stock upper and lower control arms.


Cheers,
Frank.

 

The RRS coilover front end is a strut, so does not have an upper A arm. Not a particulary good "handling" mod as there is no camber gain.

The TCP coilover however does benifit from the "drop" & the top A arm they produce has the "drop" built in, if you wish. Also has the taper built in on the ball joint so it does not bind.

(http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww284/Downresto/Misc%20Mustang%20stuff/TCPupperarm.jpg)

Title: Lowering Upper Control arms - the 'Shelby Mod'
Post by: Frank70 on August 12, 2009, 12:05:52 pm

Thanks Kerry.

You know I never realised that the upper A arm was gone !

Cheers,
Frank.

Title: Lowering Upper Control arms - the 'Shelby Mod'
Post by: nassi on August 12, 2009, 10:01:50 pm

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Originally posted by Frank70
Thanks Kerry.

You know I never realised that the upper A arm was gone !

Cheers,
Frank.
 

Didnt you miss the squeak? :+

Title: Lowering Upper Control arms - the 'Shelby Mod'
Post by: Frank70 on August 13, 2009, 07:07:31 am

hehe

Title: Lowering Upper Control arms - the 'Shelby Mod'
Post by: 69candy on August 13, 2009, 08:41:17 pm

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Originally posted by Frank70
hehe
 

Jeez. I know your sig says you live here but 4.37AM;x

Title: Lowering Upper Control arms - the 'Shelby Mod'
Post by: jiffy on August 14, 2009, 01:23:54 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Frank70
This might be a dumb question - is this mod still useful on a car with a coilover front end (ie. RRS ) ?

I have the stage one kit that retains the stock upper and lower control arms.


Cheers,
Frank.

 

so Frank - do you still use the stock upper & lower control arms - or is the top one gone as per your next post? If you still have the stock upper, then the mod is an option for you, if you have an aftermarket one, or don't have one at all, then you should be fine at the geometry is likely to have changed anyway...