Problems with new Ridetech suspension with 3 degrees of positive camber

[Blake Foster]

Originally Posted by Old66Tiger

Yup, I was driving the car down the road before I pulled the front end apart and swapped the SpeedTech stuff over for the Ridetech stuff. The Speedtech with factory spindles needed 3/16" shims to get -0.5 degrees of camber at the same ride height. I made up 5/8" of shims out of oak (just to see where the camber would end up and I am still in the positive area. Car is not dragging weeds. About 2" lower than factory at best.

Apparently, these arms just went through a complete re-design. I also now need to grind my inner fenders to allow clearance for these arms.

Now why would you go and do that???

[coolwelder62]

Did you get the right part# of a-arms.Give Darren @ridetech acall.I'm sure someone there can figure out what needs to happen to fix the problem.

[Old66Tiger]

Not sure. I looked at their website and it appears that the pictures listed are for an older design like what was used on the 66 GTO for V8TV. I saw in another post that they were going to setup their test chevelle with the newer design so it will be interesting to see if they ran into the same problem as I did.

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by Blake Foster

Now why would you go and do that???

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA good question!!!

[clill]

Have you called Ride Tech ?

[Old66Tiger]

Holiday weekend...always my luck. I have a show this coming Saturday that I paid for in advance so I am hoping to get this ironed out before then.

[Old66Tiger]

I stand corrected on one of my prior posts. The Ridetech spindles are measuring only 0.100" greater than the factory spindles from the upper mounting boss to the ball joint hole. The arms measure almost 1/2" longer from the cross shaft to the center of the ball joint than the Speedtech arms. Add these two together and there is the difference.

[64pontiac]

Sucks to have long weekend problems, I hear you there! Hopefully it is something simple like old part number etc that they can correct for you. I will say, that Bret was extremely good getting an issue I had sorted out last week. I guess squeaky wheel gets it, but they had no issue helping me once I got the attention of the right person.

We are all curious though, why did you yank the Speedtech arms????

[Ron Sutton]

Would it make sense to go back to the Speedtech arms ... or wait until you talk to Ridetech Tuesday ?

[Rick D]

Originally Posted by Old66Tiger

I stand corrected on one of my prior posts. The Ridetech spindles are measuring only 0.100" greater than the factory spindles from the upper mounting boss to the ball joint hole. The arms measure almost 1/2" longer from the cross shaft to the center of the ball joint than the Speedtech arms. Add these two together and there is the difference.

Just wondering, but don't the new arms come with the offset shaft? When you take your measurements are the shafts facing the correct direction? I thought they had like 3/4 inch built into the offset??

Just thinking out loud I'm sure Bret and the gang at RideTech will get it sorted out for you!