Re: Adjustable upper control arms
I'll start with the K&W's. On the rear I couldn't raise the car high enough to keep from hitting the camber arms, I'm talking the stock curved arm. On the front the problem was shock travel. I was bottoming out the front shocks and breaking them. Because the rear couldn't be lifted higher I didn't want to lift the front and look like a doufous with the nose in the air. So I resorted to lots of bump stops which I split and lost constantly. I assumed part of the problem was too soft spring rates in the front. Perhaps I was wrong.
G/C suspension. The rear is fine, perhaps too stiff for the slippery tracks here in P.R.
The front is another story. I couldn't lift the front enough to keep from trapping the tires with the top of the fenders. That's how I wrecked, tires stopped turning. Donovan sent me a couple of modified bases to try and resolve the problem but I ended up making my own spring spacers out of 15mm wheel spacers. Now the front is high enough. Then Hoosier came out with the R-7 and it's 1" wider in my size than before. Now the tires don't fit under the fenders and I've had to put spacers on the front to clear the bar that connects the bottom arm (hub actually) to the top. So now I have a wider track in the front than rear. The Kmacs won't turn because their outer collar interferes with the A-arms. So thence the upper adjustable A-arms. Well, they don't fit in the tower when the suspension is compressed. No suspension part I've purchased has worked out of the box without problems.
To be continued …..
Les