GT-ER

Has anyone thought about just making a small bracket to push out the upper ball joint half an inch or so? It seems easy enough to do and I'm seriously thinking about trying it... thoughts?

I'm talking about a small bracket with 6 holes that'll push the ball joint outward.

Forrest Gump 9

Yes sir, that would be one way to do it.

claywillard

I looked at it when making the caster mod. I was tempted to elongate the holes to allow the joint to move outwards as much as the material could allow. Chickened out on that.

GT-ER

Yeah, not much material to eat at which is why I'm thinking about the plates.

vettdvr

The risk is change in lever arm which might potentially break the joint off. You might have to sandwich the lip in a machined steel plate to take the flex stress but I still think there is a risk of breaking the ball joint free from the flange.

GT-ER

The extra leverage is marginal, I'm only adding .5"-.75" or so to an already long arm. This is how camber was fixed on infiniti G35's ( oem length arms with metal plates welded to them for added length with the ball joint at the end ). Especially since the forces the arm sees is mostly shear force, not torsional.

GT-ER

Just in case someone was following this, it is a no go. The upper wheel well has a space where the A-arm fits and it is elongated then it won't fit and will crash on the upper well.