Bent a arm... question.
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Originally Posted by Sam Strano:
The stock GM upper arms have a curve in them to fit around the shock tower @ full compression. None of the aftermarket arms do. When you really compress the suspension the arms hit the body and can be tweaked.... This is common with all the aftermarket uppers. It gets worse the lower and softer the car is, and god forbid someone didn't put their bumpstops on (or have shocks with new bumpstops already in place).
Sam, his stock arm also did the same thing.
Originally Posted by Sam Strano:
The stock GM upper arms have a curve in them to fit around the shock tower @ full compression. None of the aftermarket arms do. When you really compress the suspension the arms hit the body and can be tweaked.... This is common with all the aftermarket uppers. It gets worse the lower and softer the car is, and god forbid someone didn't put their bumpstops on (or have shocks with new bumpstops already in place).
Sam, his stock arm also did the same thing.
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The stock GM upper arms have a curve in them to fit around the shock tower @ full compression. None of the aftermarket arms do. When you really compress the suspension the arms hit the body and can be tweaked.... This is common with all the aftermarket uppers. It gets worse the lower and softer the car is, and god forbid someone didn't put their bumpstops on (or have shocks with new bumpstops already in place).
Hopefully the stock piece was just bent by coincidence.
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Stock arms are curved stock. I don't know how you'd bend one of those. My car was in an accident in 2006 that made the tire hit the inner fender up and behind the shock, and destroyed the shock.... but didn't hurt the upper arm.
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Once the new tubular upper gets here I'm going to swap back to the stock pieces. I've got a friend who has some stock ones that aren't bent. Tubular lowers and a k member are in the future for this car for sure though.
Tubular lowers and a k member are in the future for this car for sure though.
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