Yes its sitting the way I like. I could go another inch lower if I wanted and I could also go 3 inches higher from where it sits now. I used QA1's Porma star coilover


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I'd keep an eye on this clevis for fatigue. It's designed for horizontal movement at that mounting but the spindle will be moving vertically, basically trying to pry apart the clevis with up/down motion. Anyone else picture this as the spindle moves up/down repeatedly in an arc but the clevis slot stays parallel? Just a thought envisioning motion.
Jon

 

As long as the chassis side attachments of the arm and the strut are both spherical joints, or if the strut's spherical joint is on the projected axis of the arm pivot, there should not be any geometric conflict.


Norm

 

Jon. I see what you are thinking but the frame mount is a spherical joint. Also the Lower control arm mount has been modified with a spherical joint. Think of the strut bar making the LCA a complete A arm setup. Same type of design as what is done on circle track cars which see a lot of abuse.

 

Ok. Last question ( I think). http://img502.imageshack.us/i/coilover005.jpg/
What is the plastic spacer made of and where did you get it? Thanks again!

 

Its made out of aluminum. I made it at my neighbors machine shop

 

I wish my neighbors had a machine shop! What Machine did you use? I have a friend with a metal lath. It looks great.

 

I've been using these for applications that have multi-directional movement. Much stronger than a heim end.

 

Mr. Velocity. Those look great where do you get them? They wont work as well as a heim joint however. The heim joint allows the up and down movement to work in an arc. Looks like those would bind really bad if being worked in an arc. I can see those being used in some other applications. Cant use as a clevis. The clevis needs to be in a fixed postion once it is installed.

 

We use them in steering systems where heim joints don't last a season. The ones in the pic above are from latham marine, they are not cheap.