1G Lower Control Arms

[JAXWHITE1G]

Terribly sorry for the delay.My wifes mother became terminally ill and we spent about a year helping her before she passed.
I was contacted by Jeff Bush to see if I could make him some. like on my car but I thought I could do better than 12 oz each. I did a lot of number crunching and had some steel rolled out just to my specs. These are for drag racing only but I'm testing some auto cross arms on my car. These weigh in at 3 lbs 3 oz. with ball joint. OEM is 8 lbs 10 oz. That is over 5 lbs lighter. I have built some rear control arms also but don't have a weight comparison. A friend loaned me a control arm from his DD to make the fixture and I gave it back to him and forgot to weigh it. Here is a photo.

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If I saw some of you at the shoot out chime in and let me know.

Mike

 

[Boosted98gsx]

There was a lot of welding and some distortion in the jig while doing them. I heated them to a dull red with a rosebud and cooled them slowly to remove any heat affect zones. They fit easily in the jigs after that.

Good man. Are you going to harden them at all? Or leave them annealed?

 

[RipperXX]

Sweet, please post all updates as they come along as soon as you have time!

 

[Jst4Cyl]

Terribly sorry for the delay.My wifes mother became terminally ill and we spent about a year helping her before she passed.
I was contacted by Jeff Bush to see if I could make him some. like on my car but I thought I could do better than 12 oz each. I did a lot of number crunching and had some steel rolled out just to my specs. These are for drag racing only but I'm testing some auto cross arms on my car. These weigh in at 3 lbs 3 oz. with ball joint. OEM is 8 lbs 10 oz. That is over 5 lbs lighter. I have built some rear control arms also but don't have a weight comparison. A friend loaned me a control arm from his DD to make the fixture and I gave it back to him and forgot to weigh it. Here is a photo.

If I saw some of you at the shoot out chime in and let me know
Mike

Definitely some quality pieces, checked them out at the shootout along with the cam degree kit and valve kit.

Any updates on parts?

 

[DSM_Roller]

interested.......