Friday, April 15, 2011 - 06:41 pm, by: Will Hemmingsen(Whygrip)
im after adjustable lower arms (control arms) for the jzz30, any ideas where i may find some? dont want to fabricate them as i cant be bothered relying on a chance of human error haha
Ben Lipman Goo Roo SA Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car
Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 02:36 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
Nathan,
I only got half a degree of extra negative camber over the 2 degrees I already had (with new poly bushes-no slop).
I got another half a degree by taking a couple of mm out of the lower control arm mounting point. ie widening the slot that the factory eccentric bush slides in. Took 30 minutes careful work with a dremel. Cost=zero. Much better investment then the Ikeya arms.
Someone suggested that maybe they need to be used in conjunction with the Ikeya lower control arms (with roll center adjustment) to get the camber, but who has another thousand bucks to find out?
Increasing the track will also increase the negative camber on the Soarer/Supra platform. The front end alignment is pretty farked up as the lower control arm controls the castor and camber simultaneously - takes ages to get it spot on when changing bushes unless you mark everything before you take it apart lol.
Ben Lipman Goo Roo SA Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car
Sunday, April 24, 2011 - 06:11 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
Yeah, they make them, but good luck buying a set. I tried for two years. They were never in stock. Titan also sell some, but same deal. I even had one bloke offer to get some made up through a bush supplier in the US (ie copy a set) but still never got hold of a set.
As far as I know, no one in Australia has ever managed to buy some. There have been a few of us try...
I find the lower control arm setup easy to work, but I guess I have spent a stupid amount of time under there.
Phil Gibson Goo Roo WA '91 UZZ30, '91 manual UZZ31 track bunky, '94 blk/blk UZZ31
Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 06:14 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
I had toyed with the idea of taking the bush measurements into a suspension place and going through their catalogues to find an eccentric bush kit from some other application that would work but never got around to it.
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