SPC front lower control arms with Howe balljoints for 68-72 Chevelle

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SOLD 12/27

Item Location (City/State): Lodi, CA

Price: $625, would prefer local pickup but will split shipping with buyer

Description:

Working on my car again, and making a few changes...

I have a set of brand new, never installed SPC lower control arms for a 64-72 A-Body. The arms have delrin bushings and the optional SPC progressive rate bump stops are included.

These arms have Howe rebuildable ball joints with Energy Suspension boots installed and are from the latest production from SPC with a proper press fit for the on-size Howe ball joint housings (they were ordered this way.) Some earlier production SPC arms had bores that were made slightly oversize to fit Moog "problem solver" ball joints which have an oversize OD, and if you tried to install the on-size Howe ball joint housing into the earlier arms with a hole sized for the oversized Moog problem solvers, the Howe joints weren't a tight press fit in the arm and they could back out if not tack welded to the arm. No such worries with these.

Note: the Howe ball joints currently have an F/B body studs installed as my ATS spindles have B-body tapers in them (I upgraded from a B-spindle swap many years ago, and bought the ATS spindles with B-body tapers in them so I could install them onto the arms and balljoints I already had rather than having to change ball joints.) If you want to use these with standard A-body ball joint taper spindles, you'll need to swap the studs. Stock height A-body studs are Howe #22480 and run $30/each and are a simple job to swap (or you can go with taller studs if using stock A-body spindles which helps camber gain, roll center, and and bump steer.)

Only reason I'm selling these is I'm modding the upper mount on the frame for a true coilover and am switching to dedicated coilover-only lower arms with a dropped lower mount for my low ride height.