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Originally Posted by tigerchevelle
Wish you had these for sale last yr.
What are you switching to?
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I'm switching to either Global West CTA-42EXT or QA1 lower arms that are made to mount a coilover directly through the spherical bearing without needing a shock-style crossbar and have a dropped lower mount so you can run a longer coilover for decent suspension travel without bottoming out the coilover on bump.
When I bought these arms several years ago I was planning on continuing to run a standard shock/spring, trimming the coils for roughing in the ride height and then using the SPC spring seat shims for fine ride height adjustment and everything would have been fine, but I now plan on modding the frame with a raised upper coilover mount to install a longer coilover for full suspension travel, and will use either the GW CTA-42EXT or QA1 coilover-only lower arms.
The SPC arms will work with coilovers, but you need to add the thick reinforcement plate in the spring pocket and also use a crossbar on the bottom of the coilover, and I don't like the idea of concentrating the weight of the car through the crossbar at the center of the large spring platform in the SPC arm even with the reinforcement plate. The arm was designed for a standard spring which spreads out the load over a larger area near the edges of the spring platform where the platform is the strongest and deflection is the least.
The car currently has a set of Global West CTA-42L (standard spring) arms and double adjustable Varishocks that I'm also going to be selling once I get the frame modded and can remove them. I don't want to remove them yet as then the car is sitting without front suspension and I can’t push it around or out of the shop easily.
I'd have it done by now (or at least be further along) but I'm once again working on someone else's car while mine sits and gathers more dust...